Mixed sets of longer fast swims with shorter, harder reps following them are great for developing sustained speed. Especially for open water swimmers and triathletes who compete over longer distances. This session is great for developing that speed.
View More Saturday Swim Session: The Swim Academy Session #1
Maintaining a high pace is important for longer distance and open water swimmers. Within this session your ability to hold a high pace (with a short Rest Interval (RI)) is developed. This is a great session for Olympic distance triathletes and open water swimmers to do to build their sustained speed.
View More Saturday Swim Session: Triathlete’s Olympic-Distance Race Prep Session
Endurance is a critical component of fitness for triathletes and long distance open water swimmers. The reps within this session build your pace to develop the skill and mindset to finish an open water swim or swim leg of a triathlon fast. This is a great session for triathletes and open water swimmers to do to build their sustained speed.
View More Saturday Swim Session: Gale Bernhardt’s Endurance 9 Workout
Endurance is a critical component of fitness for triathletes and long distance open water swimmers. The reps within this session replicate changes of pace within an open water swim race or triathlon. This is a great session for triathletes and open water swimmers to do to build their sustained speed.
View More Saturday Swim Session: Two, Four, Six, Eight Swim Ladder
Endurance is a critical component of fitness for triathletes and long distance open water swimmers. The reps within this session replicate changes of pace within an open water swim race or triathlon. This is a great session for triathletes and open water swimmers to do to build their sustained speed.
View More Saturday Swim Session: Gale Bernhardt’s Endurance 8 Workout
Swimming at an aerobic pace and then at a higher intensity trains and prepares the body to swim faster towards the end of a race. These sessions seek inspiration from a workout that was reportedly conducted by Janet Evans, who won multiple Olympic swimming medals. This is a great session for triathletes and open water swimmers to do to build their sustained speed.
View More Saturday Swim Session: Janet Evans’ Actual Step-Up Session
Swimming at an aerobic pace and then at a higher intensity trains and prepares the body to swim faster towards the end of a race. These sessions seek inspiration from a workout that was reportedly conducted by Janet Evans, who won multiple Olympic swimming medals. This is a great session for triathletes and open water swimmers to do to build their sustained speed.
View More Saturday Swim Session: Janet Evans’ Step-Up Session
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 sustained speed.
View More Saturday Swim Session: Gale Bernhardt’s Endurance 7 Workout
The Swim Fitness Builder (SFB) is an eight week training plan to build fitness for a swimmer currently confident swimming about 600-800m to be able to swim 1,600m confidently in a session. This is the final week of the training plan. I am providing the workouts from the training plan for FREE, through my website. If you’d like them as a training plan on TrainingPeaks, there is a link to purchase that towards the end of the article.
View More Saturday Swim Sessions: Week 8 Swim Fitness Builder
The Swim Fitness Builder (SFB) is an eight week training plan to build fitness for a swimmer currently confident swimming about 600-800m to be able to swim 1,600m confidently in a session. This is the seventh week of the training plan. I am providing the workouts from the training plan for FREE, through my website. If you’d like them as a training plan on TrainingPeaks, there is a link to purchase that towards the end of the article.
View More Saturday Swim Sessions: Week 7 Swim Fitness Builder