Each week I will load three Saturday Swim Session options up for you to do. Option A is for swimmers who are after a workout less than 2,000 metres. Option B is for swimmers who are after a workout between 2,000 and 3,000m and Option C will be greater than 3,000m.
Returning to the pool after a period of time off can be daunting, regardless of why you haven’t been swimming. Maybe you’ve been pregnant and have a young child, maybe you’ve been injured and haven’t been able to swim, or maybe your life has got in the way and you haven’t prioritised swimming for a wee while.
View More Saturday Swim Session – Swim Fitness Builder Week 1
Building your ability to sustain your threshold pace in a swim is an important capability for triathletes and open-water swimmers. These sessions further develop that ability by progressing the intensity as you work through the workout, but maintaining the Rest Interval (RI). The session gets tougher, as you work through it. This session will benefit triathletes of all distances, as well as other open-water swimmers.
View More Saturday Swim Session: Steve Tarpinian’s Sprint Tri Main Set 2
Swimming at high intensity will enhance your VO2 Max. As your VO2 Max improves, you will be able to swim faster, and you’ll be able to swim more effectively at lower intensities. This session will benefit triathletes of all distances, as well as other open-water swimmers.
View More Saturday Swim Session: Alison Freeman’s VO2 Max Swim #2
Building your ability to sustain your threshold pace in a swim is an important capability for triathletes and open-water swimmers. These sessions further develop that…
View More Saturday Swim Session: Steve Tarpinian’s Olympic Tri Main Set 1
Swimming at high intensity will enhance your VO2 Max. As your VO2 Max improves, you will be able to swim faster, and you’ll be able to swim more effectively at lower intensities. This session will benefit triathletes of all distances, as well as other open-water swimmers.
View More Saturday Swim Session: Alison Freeman’s VO2 Max Swim #1
Building your ability to sustain your threshold pace in a swim is an important capability for triathletes and open-water swimmers. These sessions further develop that ability by progressing the intensity as you work through the workout, but maintaining the Rest Interval (RI). The session gets tougher, as you work through it. This session will benefit triathletes of all distances, as well as other open-water swimmers.
View More Saturday Swim Session: Steve Tarpinian’s Sprint Tri Main Set 1
As you follow the programme you will find yourself swimming your 1,500m faster. Now whether that is a PB or not will depend on how fast you have swum in the past, but it will definitely be faster at the end of the 4 weeks than it is now. With this programme people improve on average nearly 2 minutes, with some people improving by over 10%.
View More Tuesday Training Plan: 4 weeks to a Faster 1500m with only two 2km per week (25m/50m Pool)
Building your ability to sustain your threshold pace in a swim is an important capability for triathletes and open water swimmers. These sessions further develops that ability by progeressing the intensity as you work through the workout, but maintaining the Rest Interval (RI). The session gets more tougher, as you work through it. This session will benefit triathletes of all distances, as well as other open water swimmers.
View More Saturday Swim Session: Julie’s Fifties
The ability to swim at and maintain your threshold pace 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.
View More Saturday Swim Session: Triathlon Plus Beginners Session 1
Building your ability to sustain your threshold pace in a swim is an important capability for triathletes and open water swimmers. These sessions further develops that ability and will benefit triathletes of all distances, as well as other open water swimmers.
View More Saturday Swim Session: Julie’s Sets of Hundreds