Training Sessions

Improve your swimming with outdoor and indoor sessions tailored for all levels. Follow plans to build endurance, speed, and open water skills. Do targeted drills and sets for injury prevention, better technique, and race readiness. Experts share sessions for pool, river, and sea swimming, plus cross-training like yoga and weights.

Tick tock, can you beat the clock?

This session adds in the excitement of a timer to keep you pushing hard
Protect your winter gains

Make sure your move back to open water in summer doesn’t undermine a winter’s worth of hard training
1hr 45m 4.6km Training Session

To complete this as written, you should be capable of swimming repeatedly 100m off 90secs
Winter training 2 – 1hr, 3km with torpedo drill

Water Slaves | Simon Griffiths | H2Open Editor | Thursday 04 October 2012This is another set aimed at easing you back…
Pull it together

Develop your catch and pull using a pull buoy
Tune-up time – session 1

Get back to the pool for a refresh, reset and tune-up.
Embrace the medley – session 2

Add other strokes to your training will enhance your strength, fitness and swimming ability.
Back to the pool: How to make the most of your pools sessions

With limited pool time available, Keri-anne Payne explains how to make the most of your sessions
4.8km Training Session (~1.5 hrs)

To complete this as written, you should be capable of swimming repeatedly 100m off 90secs
Take your training outside – week 3

Make the most of your outdoor swimming with our weekly training plans
How to cut 5% off your mile time

If you're training for the Henley Mile or a 1 mile Great Swim event this year, you may be wondering…
Endless learning – lesson 2

I am feeling quite smug. I’m back in the endless pool at Tri 'N' Swim Well and I had been…
Train like a master

Fiona Ford encourages open water swimmers to imitate masters swimmers’ training schedules
Take your pool training outdoors

Use your local open water venue to improve your fitness and open water skills
Embrace the medley – session 4

Add other strokes to your training will enhance your strength, fitness and swimming ability.
Last hurrah – session 1

The first of four end of season training sessions
DIY 10k training camp

Create your own intensive staycation
Embrace the medley – session 1

Add other strokes to your training will enhance your strength, fitness and swimming ability.
Avoid the ‘one-speed’ trap

To swim faster and race well in open water you need to develop pace versatility in training
Training session – long distance

The last in a series of training sessions tailored to short, medium and long-distance swimmers
Last hurrah – session 4

The last of four end of season training sessions
Training session – medium distance

The second of three training sessions tailored to short, medium and long-distance swimmers
Tune-up time – session 4

Get back to the pool for a refresh, reset and tune-up.
Couch to 1 mile open water training plan

A training plan for those doing their first mile
Take your training outside – week 2

Make the most of your outdoor swimming with our weekly training plans