Our Favourite Pre Race Swim Workouts

[@gtn]

What workouts do you follow in your race build up?

[@3WalkingPoles]

Whatever coach tells me to do. 🙂

[@ngdawgs1]

Exactly what I needed today!! Chattanooga half this Sunday 💪🏽. I did an easy 1200m swim/25 bike/6 run as my last workout. All spread out throughout the day with nice rest in between. Planning on doing 2 swim sessions this week. Straight 1600 meters during a 30 min session. Do y’all recommend any light workouts the day before the race or maybe just stretching? Thanks for all the great content GTN! I’m ready for game day 😎. Btw.. decided to get a pair of ON shoes too 🤙🏽. Love the ones y’all wear. Went with Cloudswift, so I’ll have to do some test runs before using them on a race.

[@realalbertan]

6-7 days out If the swim is 1500 6x100 @ 1:25 race pace hitting 1:08 or a bit faster 750 or 800 6x75 @1:05 race pace hitting 50 or 51

[@realalbertan]

Day prior - I will do a meet warm up as a workout. Main set either 3x100 @ 1:20 or 25 hitting pace Or usuall 6-4x75 @ 1:10 hitting pace 1200 - 1400m

[@robohippy]

I remember reading about the local college American football team (Oregon Ducks) and how they went from a walk through practice the day before the game to a hard/full speed work out, but not as long as conditioning work outs. They seemed to do better with getting to the point of full speeds, but not to the point where they wore themselves out.

[@corecreekproductions6533]

Really interesting video. I have to imagine that when doing a pro event these workouts are great ways to measure your anticipated performance. For an almost 50 year old like myself, doing my first Olympic Tri in August this is just way too much - two weeks before the event I’ll train as normal, and just taper off the last week, continuing to swim, but at low effort to keep myself fresh. Sure, I have a time goal, but without having done the distance before, just finishing is first priority.

[@gtn]

Good luck with your triathlon 🙂

[@iggalan]

With two weeks for my first triathlon of the year this sure incomes in right in time! I’ll definitely do these workouts 👍🏊‍♂️

[@DanKitchener]

I love this channel !!!

[@Ivan_Nano]

Mark! 20x100m at 1:08??? Wow dude, you are an incredible swimmer!

[@markthrelfall3577]

Not so much these days haha

[@Ivan_Nano]

Could you guys make a video on how to properly taper for full Ironman? How long before and what kind of workouts on each discipline?

[@gtn]

We have this video all about Taper's here, check it out 👉 gtn.io/WhatIsATaper

[@trbeyond]

Were the times you were mentioning in the beginning (1:08 on 1:20) short course meters?

[@markthrelfall3577]

1:08 for 100m, off a turnaround time of 1:15 or 1:20. Meaning a recovery of 7-12 secs. I would only normally be about a second quicker in 25m versus 50m pool for 100m

[@trbeyond]

@@markthrelfall3577 thanks! We are still backwards in the US swimming mostly in SCY. I assume you were front pack most of the time?

[@markthrelfall3577]

@@trbeyond I was, but with the way the short course tri swims are going, I reckon I would struggle these days

[@franknoneli3750]

what happened to fraser? haven't seen him in a while

[@francoisrouviere]

With regards to the test set, wondering for a 70.3 why you would not simply do 1900m continuous instead of 20 x 100m (or 19 x 100m) if you are going to have so very little rest in between each 100m?

[@michaelvozar5600]

To make it a little easier, allow rest