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 sustained speed.
View More Saturday Swim Session: Building Speed With T-Time Sessions
This session is a great tool to determine your current level of fitness and use as a benchmark for planning of future training sessions. This is an alternate method for determining it, really great if you have limited time for this workout. I use the main version every four to six weeks with my athletes and this version for athletes starting out, or recommencing training after a good break.
View More Saturday Swim Session: Alternate T-Times
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.
View More Saturday Swim Session: Strong 200s
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.
View More Saturday Swim Session: Millions of Hundreds, Hundreds of Free
Individual Medley (IM) workouts are ALWAYS tough. This workout builds up the distance of the Individual Medley (IM) reps to constantly challenging you before descending down the other side of the pyramid. This session is great for triathlete and open water swimmers.
View More Saturday Swim Session: Climb This!
Com Games Gold medalist & Olympic Bronze medalist, Cameron McEvoy has swum some tough sets during his career, over the next few weeks I’m going expose you to a number of his toughest training sets (and variations for mere mortals).
View More Saturday Swim Session: Cameron McEvoy – The Hardest Sets Ever #4 For Mortals
Com Games Gold medalist & Olympic Bronze medalist, Cameron McEvoy has swum some tough sets during his career, over the next few weeks I’m going expose you to a number of his toughest training sets (and variations for mere mortals).
View More Saturday Swim Session: Cameron McEvoy – The Hardest Sets Ever #4
Sometimes swim sessions can be confusing with lots of instructions and technical difficulty. This session is great for it’s simplicity….it’s 200m…which rep? ALL OF THEM. 200m is a great distance, long enough for benefits, short enough not to lose count of the lengths. This session is great for triathlete and open water swimmers.
View More Saturday Swim Session: Totally 200s
Com Games Gold medalist & Olympic Bronze medalist, Cameron McEvoy has swum some tough sets during his career, over the next few weeks I’m going expose you to a number of his toughest training sets (and variations for mere mortals).
View More Saturday Swim Session: Cameron McEvoy – The Hardest Sets Ever #3 For Mortals
Completing the Ironman Swim in under 60 minutes is a significant achievement. Consistent pacing and sustained effort is the key to achieving this goal. This session tests your capability to maintain the pace and is a breakdown of a longer set. This is a great session for triathletes and open water swimmers to do to build their sustained speed.
View More Saturday Swim Session: GTN’s Sub-Hour Ironman Swim Progression Set