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Saturday Swim Session: Gale Bernhardt’s Endurance 5 Workout

Endurance is a critical component of fitness for triathletes and long distance open water swimmers. This is a great session for triathletes and open water swimmers to do to build their top end speed.

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Saturday Swim Session: Strong 200s

This session builds the distance of each set and also builds the speed into the session, culminating with your fastest paces at the end of the session. This session is great for swimmers and triathletes preparing for longer, open water swims.

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Swim 365

Are you a regular fitness swimmer?
Do you struggle to find inspiration for a swim workout?
Due to a request to put together a year long training programme for a group of swimmers, I’m now launching Swim 365 to everyone else.
It might be you take the lead for a group of friends who swim together. Maybe you plan the training for a local masters group. Maybe you swim by yourself and need some inspiration for some workouts each week.
Each session will develop all round swimming fitness by improving aerobic efficiency, Distance Per Stroke (DPS), swim speed, lactate tolerance and/or threshold pace.

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Periodising Swimming Successfully with Dick Hannula

Dick Hannula is arguably one of the most successful swim coaches of all time. Under his leadership the Tacoma Swim Club won 24 consecutive state championships, a total of 323 swim meets with no loss!!! He was the US National Swim Coach multiple times between 1973 and 1985, as well as manager for both summer Olympics in 1984 & 1988. He has been inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame and is credited with developing the modern swim paddle with holes in them to facilitate feel for the water. He has authored Coaching Swimming Successfully and edited The Swim Coaching Bible.

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Saturday Swim Session: 12 Days of Christmas 🎄 🎅

This is a fun wee session based around everyones favourite (or maybe least favourite) Christmas Carol. With a focus on short reps and inclusion of plenty of drills. This session is great for swimmers and triathletes preparing for longer, open water swims.

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Saturday Swim Session: BOOM 💥 🤯 for Mortals

Spending a large amount of time swimming at or near your threshold pace and mixing in a bit of faster (or slower) swimming will develop not only your ability to sustain pace, but also give your VO2 max a boost. This session is great for swimmers and triathletes preparing for longer, open water swims.

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Saturday Swim Session: BOOM 💥 🤯

Spending a large amount of time swimming at or near your threshold pace and mixing in a bit of faster (or slower) swimming will develop not only your ability to sustain pace, but also give your VO2 max a boost. This session is great for swimmers and triathletes preparing for longer, open water swims.

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Top 20 Swim Workouts From Coach Ray eBook

With over 200 articles covering swim workouts published when this ebook came out, I condensed it down to the Top 20 most popular swim workouts. As viewed by people like you, the readers of my website.

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Tuesday Training Plan: 4 weeks to a Faster 1500m with only two 2km per week (25m/50m Pool)

Want to swim 2 minutes faster for your 1,500m in just 4 weeks?? With 2 swims per week that is the typical result and what’s more is that you only need to swim 2km with those two workouts!!! Results Guaranteed.

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Saturday Swim Session: Millions of Hundreds, Hundreds of Free for Mortals

Spending a large amount of time swimming at or near your threshold pace and mixing in a bit of faster (or slower) swimming will develop not only your ability to sustain pace, but also give your VO2 max a boost. This session is great for swimmers and triathletes preparing for longer, open water swims.

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