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...
by SwimCoach | Sep 2, 2016 | Posts, Tips, News & Reviews, Sponsored Athlete 2016, Swims
The time is near for our two sponsored charity athletes with Sasha taking part in Saturdays Dart 10km (with a twist) and David travelling to the lake district soon for his windermere attempt. Here are the penultimate updates from our swimmers as they embark on their...
by SwimCoach | Sep 1, 2016 | Posts, Tips, News & Reviews
*If you have arrived here from a Facebook or Email link please enjoy the read to get a comprehensive overview of what we do in our South West Swim Squads. Our main pool squad page can be found here, where you can book your sessions or view upto date session time...
by SwimCoach | Jul 29, 2016 | Posts, Tips, News & Reviews
This i-Swam set is an open water focused set based loosely on a very popular set we delivered a few weeks ago, combining open water skills, pacing and technical swim skills. When we coach open water in the lake we use the lake as our pool, this saves the monotomy of...
by SwimCoach | Jul 22, 2016 | Posts, Tips, News & Reviews, Sponsored Athlete 2016
As you may know, this year we are sponsoring a couple of athletes for their charity events in 2016. Last time we heard from Sasha, this week we hear from our prime sponsor David. See what he has been up to below. Well what a couple of weeks that’s been!...
by SwimCoach | Jul 1, 2016 | Sponsored Athlete 2016
Sasha Leigh – SWS Sponsored Swimmer 2016 Jason’s asked me to write a little intro and update as to what I’m doing and why. So here goes. It all started when I was diagnosed last year with multiple sclerosis. It was a shock, but it also explained some very weird...
by SwimCoach | Jul 1, 2016 | Posts, Tips, News & Reviews
The Washing Machine Effect – Swim Starts and Finishes for Open Water & Triathlon Swimming Jason Tait, South West Swim Coaching & Retail The start of a race is for some, the most daunting aspect of the race, a mass of bodies, arms and legs flailing...
by SwimCoach | May 13, 2016 | Posts, Tips, News & Reviews, Swims
This weeks I-Swam set is more of a We-Swam. This set got some good feedback from our pure technique squad session this week so I have decided to send it out for you to try. The sets focus is on good alignment, symmetry and body position. Finishing with a few timed...
by SwimCoach | May 6, 2016 | Posts, Tips, News & Reviews, Swims
This week its a nice simple set using our CSS paces at CSS 0, but it will be very tough. Can you survive the whole distance?. All sets are performed with 1 BEEP recovery only. This is a nice endurance set with a mix of threshold pace and spurts of above threshold....
by SwimCoach | Apr 29, 2016 | Posts, Tips, News & Reviews, Swims
Welcome to this weeks I-Swam set. This week we performed a skills pyramid in the pool, rising from 100m through to 600m and back again. Feel free to tweak these distances to meet your own session time, for example build in 50m additional increments instead of...
by SwimCoach | Apr 29, 2016 | Posts, Tips, News & Reviews
As the warmer weather (hopefully) approaches many swimmers and triathletes are faced with a dilemma………Open water or pool? Your decision on this matter can have a huge impact on your season ahead, motivation and speed. Why is this? Open water is...
by SwimCoach | Apr 21, 2016 | Posts, Tips, News & Reviews, Swims
After the hectic period of school holidays the i-swum set is back, as I can get back to the lap pool and swim :). Todays I-Swim set is designed to work the body posture and position and the front of the stroke, we have also chucked in some speed work and open water...
by SwimCoach | Apr 7, 2016 | Posts, Tips, News & Reviews, Sponsored Athlete 2016
With thanks to H20penMagazine for the donation of a Subscription to the magazine and also to SwimSmooth for access the SwimSmooth App. If you can offer services to donate to Davids Journey then please contact me at Jason@Southwestswim.co.uk. Earlier this year we ran...
by SwimCoach | Mar 22, 2016 | Posts, Tips, News & Reviews, Swims
I-Swam, Rotation Drill Pyramid This week its not so much an I-Swam set, as I took a CSS test on Monday, knocking 2.8 seconds off per 100m, so I am very happy with this. So for this weeks set I have looked up and re-worked an older squad homework set that was being...
by SwimCoach | Mar 16, 2016 | Posts, Tips, News & Reviews
It’s all change in the way we book sessions at South West Swim Firstly, many many many thanks for all of you who have logged in and created accounts, helped test and even book sessions on our spanking new system. It has been a lot of hard work in the background...
by SwimCoach | Mar 15, 2016 | Posts, Tips, News & Reviews
If you fancy a nice little tough set to challenge the body and mind try this little number that I swam on Monday. Use your CSS pace +4 (25m pool you would add 4 seconds to your Base CSS, (for ref 0.25 per length added to the tempo trainer = 1 second over 100m). I...
by SwimCoach | Feb 11, 2016 | Posts, Tips, News & Reviews
Well, its been an interesting week or so back in the UK, which is why this second instalment about my trip has been delayed slightly. When flying to Australia I found the jet lag quite bad, but manageable. I could still get on with daily life (albeit adjusted...