Swim Session

Saturday Swim Session: Alison Freeman’s VO2 Max Swim #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.

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Swim Session

Saturday Swim Session: Julie’s Fifties

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.

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Saturday Swim Session: Julie’s Sets of Hundreds

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.

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Ironman Swim

Saturday Swim Session: Lance Watson’s Ironman 70.3 Race Intensity Workout

Building your ability to sustain your threshold pace in a swim is an important capability for triathletes and open-water swimmers. This session will benefit triathletes of all distances, particularly Ironman 70.3 and Olympic distance triathletes, as well as other open-water swimmers.

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Fartlek Swim

Saturday Swim Session: Julie’s Fartlek Swim

Continuous swims are very beneficial for triathletes and openw ater swimmers. This session minimises the monotony of just swimming up and down staring at the black line.

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ORCA NZ

Saturday Swim Session: ORCA New Zealand’s Intense Swim Workout

Exposing your body to a range of intensities and training tools (such as pull buoy, fins etc…) can assist your both your swimming speed and stamina. This workout is great for triathletes with variations basaed on your capabilities and event you are targeting.

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Swim Training

Saturday Swim Session: Success with Stamina

Stamina and Endurance are essential for a number of reasons. If you are a triathlete or open-water swimmer these traits are useful for the duration of your event. But more so if you are a Master’s Swimmer targeting a shorter pool-based event they provide the base fitness on which to build your speed as part of a periodised swimming plan. This session is great for master’s swimmers.

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Swim Speed

Saturday Swim Session: Swim Speed Builder

Sprint Training is the cherry on the top that gives you your race speed. With a periodised training plan, the preceding sessions are all building to this point to maximise and optimise the speed developed in these sessions. This session is perfect for master’s swimmers, although not specifically targeted for triathletes and open water swimmers this session will help sharpen the top-end swim speed.

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Swim Training

Saturday Swim Session: Top End Speed Builder

Sprint Training is the cherry on the top that gives you your race speed. With a periodised training plan, the preceding sessions are all building to this point to maximise and optimise the speed developed in these sessions. This session is perfect for master’s swimmers, although not specifically targeted for triathletes and open water swimmers this session will help sharpen the top-end swim speed.

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Swim Session

Saturday Swim Session: Always Work On Your Technique

The greater your efficiency in the water, the faster you can swim for less effort. Including swimming drills in your training regularly will enhance your technique and form. It is great for master’s swimmers as well as open-water swimmers and triathletes.

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