by SwimCoach | Feb 27, 2017 | Posts, Tips, News & Reviews, Swims
This week we are swimming for time for most of the set. The aim is to test our pacing skills swimming each timed section as a non tempo trainer set, and then to your CSS pace with a tempo trainer. This will give us a naked time, and a paced time (despite the name...
by SwimCoach | Feb 6, 2017 | Posts, Tips, News & Reviews, Swims
Distance to Sprint, test all your skills and mental endurance For this weeks swim set you will need to know your CSS time, we published a set to enable you to get this a few weeks ago. This is actually an extract from our 90minute Sunday Squad set. It starts us off...
by SwimCoach | Jan 23, 2017 | Posts, Tips, News & Reviews, Swims
This weeks set I-Swam Set is calle da ‘Big Bold Pyramid” set. We start and finish with some technique work to get us focused, in the middle is a nice pyramid to keep you occupied, with different paces and rest intervals. Enjoy, its a tough one! Part 1 200...
by SwimCoach | Jan 16, 2017 | Posts, Tips, News & Reviews
Our Newsletter this week was talking about Monitoring your swim with CSS based training. The first step to this is a CSS Benchmark to record your swim metrics, which can then be taken forward to help you in your training and monitoring. The I-Swam set below is a...
by SwimCoach | Jan 9, 2017 | Posts, Tips, News & Reviews, Swims
This I-Swam set is called ‘Oh So Simple’. Don’t be fooled by its appearance, swam properly at the various speeds it is a beast of a set that will test both your mental and physical state. Physically, the short bursts of speed and low rest will give...
by SwimCoach | Oct 12, 2016 | Posts, Tips, News & Reviews, Sponsored Athlete 2016
As you may know South West Swim run a sponsorship programme for a couple of Swimmers doing charity events. This year one of our sponsored swimmers was David Stevens, who planned to swim Windermere end to end. We are pleased to say David achieved this goal in an EPIC...