Posts, Tips, News & Reviews – Page 8

Session Updates – NEW times & Sessions

by SwimCoach | Jun 10, 2015 | Posts, Tips, News & Reviews

New Session types and times Hi swimmers, due to the amount of bookings from you lovely swimmers, and wanting to be able to assist you in your swims, I have needed to increase our coaching hours. As of next week I can now offer: – NEW, 1-2-1 Bitesize – A...

Starting Open Water swimming should be the start of an epic Journey

by SwimCoach | May 22, 2015 | Posts, Tips, News & Reviews

Beginners in Open Water – The Start Of An Epic Journey Written by Jason Tait, ASA & STA Open Water Specialist Coach – South West Swim Open Water Coaching & Retail www.southwestswim.co.uk I am often asked if swimming in Open Water is different to...

The Cotswold Expo – Swim, Bike, Run, Recover and Everything in-between

by SwimCoach | Apr 17, 2015 | Posts, Tips, News & Reviews

I had some thoughts last year about some sort of expo in the Cotswolds, and now together with other leading sporting & tri businesses in the area we are making it happen. See below for our joint press release for a new and exciting addition to the local event...

Bringing the Tow Float to the Cotswolds – Be Seen, Be Safe

by SwimCoach | Apr 2, 2015 | Posts, Tips, News & Reviews

SouthWestSwim (Southwestswim.co.uk) are very pleased to be able to bring the well known concept of the Tow Float to the Cotswold lakes. Tow floats have been around for a few years now and are very popular in the lake district (endorsed by Lake District National Park)...

Wetsuit Training; Pace and Readiness

by SwimCoach | Mar 27, 2015 | Posts, Tips, News & Reviews

It is often said wetsuit swimming is different, its faster, it can change your stroke. From personal experience this is all true…………………..but I wanted to find out just how true? I have recently been playing with my wetsuit /...

South West Swim’s Weekly Tip: Up the Tempo

by SwimCoach | Feb 20, 2015 | Posts, Tips, News & Reviews

Do you know your ideal, comfortable and realistic stroke rate? No, then maybe now is the time to work out your sweet spot in this area. We use the tempo trainer a lot in our pool sessions for pace training, hitting the beep calculated by your CSS pace (+/- depending...