Swim

Andy Bullock explains the differences between trickle breathing and explosive breathing when swimming

14 top pro triathletes, including Gwen Jorgensen, Jodie Stimpson and Leanda Cave, share their top swim tips and sessions

Mixing up swim pace is key to improving race-day swim speed and performance, but how can you work on variety in the pool? Coach John Wood has just the session…

Wondering whether to use kickboard sets as part of your swim training schedule? Triathlon coach John Wood weighs up their uses

Andy Bullock explains how to cope with sea swims when the water gets rough

Legend Chrissie Wellington shares her key five components of a good open-water swim technique

The power of the front crawl swim stroke is in the pull, says coach John Wood. Here he shows you how to improve your catch and pull phase so you increase your distance per stroke

Matt Sanderson, co-founder of Triathlon Coaching UK, explains how to improve your open-water swimming in 10 easy steps

Want to improve your open-water swimming? Glen Walker cites 9 common open-water swimming problems… and shows you how to overcome them

The swim may be the shortest discipline in triathlon, but it is often the most feared. Here’s how to overcome the most common swim fears…

John Wood has put together four swim set examples. Three are targeted towards one main skill: endurance, speed or open-water skills; while the final one is designed to help newer swimmers progress, ready to step up to the others.

We explain six key open-water swimming skills that you can practise in the pool over the winter so you are confident and flying come race-day

John Wood explains the differences between swimming with long and short fins, their benefits and the best fin swim sets

Scientists investigate the impact of finger position in swimming and find spread fingers offer greater efficiency

Always arriving into T1 exhausted? Fed up of feeling like you haven’t swum your best? Then follow Dan Bullock’s tips for getting to grips with pacing your swim in the excitement of a race

Step-by-step instruction to improve your freestyle breathing technique from Robin Brew

Varying the intensity of swim sessions holds the key to developing more swim speed, stamina and power. Dan Bullock shows you why…

John Wood explains how to use, and train with, swimming paddles and how your swim technique can benefit from them