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.
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How can I train for speed when cold water swimming?
Swimming coach Cassie Patten has advice for cold water swimmers who want to continue their sprint training through the winter.
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How to keep up your swim training in winter
Now winter is upon us and our open water swimming is limited by the cold, we asked Keri-anne Payne to…
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Yoga for open water swimmers – Part 2
Part two of a series of yoga exercises to help improve your swimming both physically and mentally
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How to prepare for a swim training session
When you prepare for a swim training session, it can make a big difference to how you feel in the…
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Open Water Skills: Sighting
Arguably the single biggest thing that you can do to achieve a better swim in open water is to sight…
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7.5km Training Session (about 2.5 hours)
To complete this as written, you should be capable of swimming repeatedly 100m off 90secs
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7km Training Session (~2+ hrs)
To complete this as written, you should be capable of swimming repeatedly 100m off 90secs
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10km open water training plan
A training plan for those contemplating taking on the 10k Marathon distance in open water
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Flippin’ Fintastic
Two fins-based training sets to improve your leg position, strength and kic
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Embrace the medley – session 3
Add other strokes to your training will enhance your strength, fitness and swimming ability.
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Take your training outside – week 1
Make the most of your outdoor swimming with our weekly training plans
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Last hurrah – session 3
The third of four end of season training sessions
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Take your training outside (part 2) – week 2
Build endurance and improve your open water skills with our weekly training plans
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Try these straightforward tubing sessions to improve your technique and keep you swim fit
These full body tubing workouts from Paul Fowler and Stefan Lawrence from 100% Tri are designed to keep you swim…
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The Shock To The System
This session will bite as requests to keep swimming slightly faster are countered by the body tiring,
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5km open water training plan
A training plan for those moving up to the 5k distance
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Simple exercises to keep you fit for swimming
Total Immersion swim coach and video analysis specialist James Ewart shares some straightforward exercises to help strengthen your core and…
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Winter training 1 – 1hr 3.5km
This set includes some medley work (ie when you swim all four strokes in the order butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke, frontcrawl)…
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Get a Rhythm
How to use a Tempo Trainer to optimise your stroke rate for maximum speed
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Try this full-body stretching workout to keep you swim fit
Undertaking a little exercise each week can help to reduce stress and anxiety, and even help also to build your…
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Pilates for swimming: Increase efficiency, reduce drag and increase speed
Physiotherapist Darren Wigg explains how to use Swimming Specific Pilates (SSP) to swim more efficiently and reduce injury
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6.9km Session – about 2.5 hours
To complete this as written, you should be capable of swimming repeatedly 100m off 90secs
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Back to Basics – Kick and Pull
Focusing on kick or pull can help refine your stroke
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The 00 Session
An easy to follow session for some good old fashioned distance
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Endless Learning – lesson 1
They say the camera doesn’t lie, but I wish it did.
