Favorite swim workout?
I like to do a 2,000 meter warm-up followed by a threshold set of 20 x 100s on a 130s cycle for 1,600 meters. Transcript: "Favorite swim workout. I'm a bit of a boring swim workout guy. You know, I get I get the program from my coach and I see it and I kind of look at the main set. And yeah, I almost changed it a little bit and just do like 2,000 meters, warm up straight into the main set and then a cool down because I just, I just want to get it done. Usually, you know, I like to be in and out in an hour or so, but I guess in terms of an actual specific workout. I kind of like threshold 100. It's so maybe something like 20 times 100 going for threshold one easy on a 130 cycle. So you kind of simulating, you know, it's 1,600 meters of that high high threshold stuff. That's really good for racing."
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Lucy Charles-Barclay
🇬🇧 Long - World 70.3 🥇, IM World 🥈
My favorite swim workout is the Rebecca Adlington set - 4 rounds of 50, 100, 150, 200, 250 (off a one-minute base) with a 300m easy swim in between each round. It's brutal, but it's also really satisfying.
Jan Frodeno
🇩🇪 All - Olympic 🥇 & 5x IM World Champ
My favorite swim workout is the Friday workout of the Noosa Squad, consisting of a warm up and a set of one easy, one hard, one easy to hard. I aim to get my average time down and finish with a loosen-down.
Sam Long
🇺🇸 Long - IM World Champion 🥈
My favorite swim workout is a set of 40 times 100, alternating between 20 times 50 and 10 times 100 with one fast and one easy. After that, I repeat the same set twice.
Nino Schurter
Olympic 🥇🥈🥉 10x MTB World Champion
I don't do swim workouts, but enjoy being in the sea for fun on holidays.
Sam Appleton
🇦🇺 Long - Multiple Ironman/70.3 Champion
I like to do a 2,000 meter warm-up followed by a threshold set of 20 x 100s on a 130s cycle for 1,600 meters.
Sonny Trigg
"TheSwimsuitGuy" - Tech Suit Reviewer
I remember a really great swim session in the London Aquatics Centre during the 2012 Olympics, where me and my friend Louis did a 350m build with an emphasis on the finish. We ended up going 20:50, 24:32, 40:00 Long Course which was a PB for me. We also did 15-20 hours of hard grinds with fast times like 15:25, 24:35, 23:50, and 30:01 all out to get a good time on the last one.