This is a great test session that can be done every fortnight to keep a check of your progress. This is a great session for triathletes and open water swimmers to do to build their sustained speed.
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Saturday Swim Session: Ferris’ Folly
This session is also known as Up Down Ladder by 100. It is great for developing and improving your ability to pace your longer swims, as well as negative split 1,500s and longer. This is a great session for triathletes and open water swimmers to do to build their sustained speed.
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Saturday Swim Session: Tarp’s Torture
This session is also known as Drop-Off 100s. It starts off very aerobic but build more and more anaerobic as the session goes on and will develop your threshold swimming successfully. This is a great session for triathletes and open water swimmers to do to build their sustained speed.
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Saturday Swim Session: Fast Freddie’s Favourite
Maintaining your Threshold speed is the key to swimming success in longer events of greater than 1,000m. This session works on further developing your threshold and your ability to maintain it. This is a great session for triathletes and open water swimmers to do to build their sustained speed.
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Saturday Swim Session: GTN’s Sub-Hour Ironman Swim Progression Set
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.
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Saturday Swim Session: GTN’s Sub-Hour Ironman Swim Session #3
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 is a great session for triathletes and open water swimmers to do to build their sustained speed.
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Saturday Swim Session: Emma-Kate Lidbury’s Baseline Swim
This baseline session is a good solid session to develop more than just fitness. It is a good benchmark that can be repeated every four to six weeks to measure performance improvement. This is a great session for triathletes and open water swimmers to do to build their sustained speed.
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Saturday Swim Session: Auburn Sprint Set
A session packed full of sprints can really build your VO2 max and tolerance of lactic acid later in the session. This session has been designed for swimmers and triathletes returning to the pool who are wanting to further develop their technique.
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Saturday Swim Session: Swim Pyramid
The best part of this session is that it gets faster as you work your way through it. The end arrives very qwikly, as you work your way through the sets. This is a great session for triathletes and open water swimmers to do to build their sustained speed.
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Saturday Swim Session: Swim Smooth’s Dense Mist Session
With COVID lockdowns limiting time allowances in the pool, some coaches have come up with inventive ways to maximise training stimuli. Although I usually fully support a good structured Warm Up (WU), inclusion of some drill work to develop technique. Occasionally just going hell for leather and swimming hard all session within a restricted duration, leaves you to maximise you fitness with minimal time available.
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