Triathletes often focus on swimming freestyle exclusively, but including other strokes in your training can improve your freestyle technique. Swimming other strokes can enhance your feel…
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Duncan Laing is arguably New Zealand’s most successful swim coach. I had the privilege of swimming under him in the mid-’90s, as part of his…
View More Saturday Swim Session: Kick, Pull & Swim, What Duncan Laing Taught Me
100s are such a versatile distance and provide a range of fitness benefits for your swimming. Over the coming weeks, we will use these sessions…
View More Saturday Swim Session: 100’s for Sustained Speed With Less Rest
100s are such a versatile distance and provide a range of fitness benefits for your swimming. Over the coming weeks, we will use these sessions…
View More Saturday Swim Session: 100’s for Sustained Speed
Now that the triathlon season is almost over in most parts of New Zealand, athletes and their coaches are starting to plan for the next…
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Utilising hand paddles can develop the strength of your arms and shoulders in a manner that is specific for swimming. However, doing too much work…
View More Saturday Swim Session: Get Stronger By Using Paddles
Swimming 50m reps with a good rest can develop your speed and swimming them with short rests can develop your endurance. Put lots together within…
View More Saturday Swim Session: 50m Sprints for Speed
150m is a great distance that can be used to develop sustainable speed. You need to hold your speed for longer than 100m reps and…
View More Saturday Swim Session: Become A Qwikker Swimmer with 150m Reps
The 50s are a great distance to swim to develop your speed. This session gets you to push the pace and then gives you plenty…
View More Saturday Swim Session: Bring On Your Swimming Speed with 50’s
200s are a great distance to swim in training as they develop both your stamina and threshold swimming pace. This workout is perfect for Ironman and Olympic…
View More Saturday Swim Session: 200’s Bring Out Your Threshold & Your Stamina