Training Camp in Tenerife

I’m just at the airport on the way to a training camp in Tenerife where I’ll be swimming 8hours a day for 9days. I’m following a training program at the moment in which I swim 2-3hours each weekday and four hour hours on Saturday and Sunday and then I have a week of 8hours swims each month.

My main training sites are now getting quite cold-Serpentine Lake was 5degrees Centigrade on Thursday! This is fine for one or two hours but for these longer sessions I’m going to be going to Tenerife just to try and up my fitness before doing 6weeks of colder water adaptation from the end of April.

Technique is key at the moment-I’ve tried to make my stroke as effortless as possible and have been following the basic principles of Total Immersion. Total Immersion is a relatively new technique focusing on streamlining and making your body as slippery as possible rather than brute force. An excellent example of TI swimming is here: Shinji Takeuchi’s Freestyle-9strokes for 25metres.

Obviously, where I’m going to swim isn’t going to be a small, warm and flat pool-it’s going to be more like this-but alot of the techniques can be applied in open water.

I’ll be splitting my 8hours training swims into two three hour sessions and one two hour session as I will on the trip, feeding and resting for an hour inbetween sessions.

1. amazed says:
   2009-11-30 14:44:06
   thats amazing, it would be really too bad if you freeze...