Swimfit Tips
Swimfit Training Camp: How to swim straight
With so many elements to think about when swimming up and down, from preventing your legs from sinking to perfecting your breathing pattern, heading in a straight line may become a bigger feat than expected.
Swimfit Training Camp: Hold off swimming fatigue
No matter how dedicated your Swimfitter lifestyle, there comes a point in a person’s swim when fatigue hits.
Swimfit Training Camp: Fear of the deep end
Fear of the unknown is one of the most common stumbling blocks for wannabe swimmers. Whether it’s the open water or the deep end of the pool, the psychological barrier of not knowing what is beneath you can be incredibly difficult to overcome.
Swimfit Training Camp: From shy to super-fly
With its dramatic double arm pull and the undulating motion of the body, butterfly can be a daunting prospect to newcomers to the stroke.
Swimfit Training Camp: Avoiding foot cramp
There can be few things more frustrating to a fitness swimmer than having to stop mid-way through a session with foot cramping.
Swimfit Training Camp: Simplify your front crawl
It’s the fastest and most popular stroke, swam over seven different distances at the Olympic Games and the staple stroke of non-competitive swimmers across the globe.
Swimfit goggles guide
With such a range of brands and features, choosing a pair of goggles is as difficult as choosing a new phone or pair of shoes.
Keeping abreast of things
As assistant coach at the British Gas Intensive Training Centre (ITC) at Bath, Graeme Antwhistle oversaw two of his squad – Michael Jamieson and Andrew Willis – reach the 200m Breaststroke final at the 2011 World Championships in Shanghai.
The dangers of carbo-loading
Carbo-loading is a nutrition technique typically employed by endurance athletes (open water, triathlon etc…) to maximise their energy storage capacity ahead of competition.
Keri-anne’s four-week training plan
If anyone knows how to prepare for an open water swim, it’s reigning 10km world champion and Olympic silver medallist Keri-anne Payne. So we asked her to design a four-week plan for open water rookie to help best prepare them for that first outdoor swim.
