COVID-19 Update For South West Swimmers

by | Mar 12, 2020 | Uncategorized

Don’t Panic! But know we are focused on your safety in these uncertain times! As you know, Coronavirus (Covid-19) is certainly present in the UK and has been declared a pandemic by the WHO (World Health Organisation). Our first priority is the safety of our...

March 2020 Specials

by | Mar 10, 2020 | Uncategorized

Soon it will be time to do our end of year stock take.  I don’t really like counting stuff, I much prefer putting my time into coaching you guys to do wonderful things.   So I thought I would have a little sale, that way I can do less counting, and...

Swim Session for the Holidays

by | Dec 27, 2017 | Posts, Tips, News & Reviews, Swims

This Swim set looks to work your pacing and endurance, making you feel the difference between a slower, maybe easy swim, and a faster effort.  We build from a nice easy base with longer rest into a the longer distances with shorter rest periods.  When you start to...

by | Nov 3, 2017 | Posts, Tips, News & Reviews, Sponsored Athlete 2016, Swims

It’s been a busy year for our Sponsored Charity Swimmer Chris Marsh, Chris has entered many events and found a new love of open water.  Read about his 2017 in his final blog of the season below. Thank you Chris for being a great Charity Swimmer this year,...

Swim Set 10-04-2017

by | Apr 11, 2017 | Posts, Tips, News & Reviews, Swims

This weeks Swim set looks to work your pacing and endurance, making you feel the difference between a slower, maybe easy swim, and a faster effort.  We build from a nice easy base with longer rest into a the longer distances with shorter rest periods.  When you start...

Swim Set 04-04-2017

by | Apr 4, 2017 | Uncategorized

This weeks set is a copy of our squad set from a few weeks ago, which is based loosely on a Swim Smooth set that I have personally swum in the past. This session is designed to get you feeling the body position in your stroke, with lots of engagement of the core to...

Swim Set 13-03-2017

by | Mar 13, 2017 | Posts, Tips, News & Reviews

This weeks swim is going to focus on some key drill repeats to get your catch and pull mechanics toned up. For this weeks set we are only going to use four very focused key drills, alongside some repeated swims. You will need your pull buoys and fins at the ready,...

Swim Set 06-03-2017

by | Mar 6, 2017 | Posts, Tips, News & Reviews

This week we are swimming what we call a pyramid set, starting with a short distance and building up to longer swims, and then back down again.  This set is very simple, not much to remember as it is the same both sides of the pyramid.  At the height of the pyramid...

Swim Set 27-02-2017

by | 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...

Swim Set 13-02-2017

by | Feb 13, 2017 | Uncategorized

This weeks swim set is back to focusing on our technique, and in particular the front of the stroke. This is a nice and simple technique set that aims to get you feeling the water, moving through a pattern of sculling and focused movement exercises to improve the...

Swim Set 06-02-2017

by | 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...

Swim Set 30-01-2017

by | Jan 30, 2017 | Uncategorized

Todays Blog post focused around the leg kick and our ideas around an effective leg kick for most athletes. So in todays swim set its our version of an effective kick set.  This is not all about power, but we are swimming with a mind set of balance, body position and...