Adjusting the Swim Workouts in your Triathlon Plan
Nadia Sullivan
I designed the off-season and sweet spot triathlon plans with 3 levels of swimming workouts built into every level of training plan so you can match the workout to your swimming ability-
Foundation : 3 Weeks
- Perfect for all cyclists beginning off season training
- Raise your CTL and the all-important muscle tension intervals
Phil Gaimon's FONDO
- Complete similar workouts to what Phil does to prepare for all his KOM's
- Sweet Spot training, threshold intervals, and some anaerobic work
Phil Gaimon's Strava PR Plan
- Perfect Plan for Those with Less Training Time, starts at 15 minutes per day
- VO2's, 1 minuters, Tabatas, threshold, suprathreshold, and even Sweet Spot
Road Race In-Season
- Weekend racing and group rides with weekday training and recovery
- anaerobic efforts like criss cross, Over/Unders Sweet Spot, Threshold
Road Racing Intervals
- Increase your functional and race-specific power output
- Includes Sweet Spot, VO2, Anaerobic, Threshold
Basic- 2000-2500yds in an hour Intermediate- 2500-3000yds in an hour Advanced- 3000+yds in an hour.
Unfortunately, this means swim days look pretty crowded in TrainingPeaks! It's easy to pick the swim workout that matches your ability and then delete the other
2. You'll need to have the Premium level of TrainingPeaks to delete future workouts so make sure you've applied the 30days of free premium coupon code you received after purchasing your plan! From the default Calendar view in TrainingPeaks, click the 3 line menu button on the swim workout you want to remove to bring up the delete option, then click ok to remove it. In this example, I'm going to keep just the Intermediate swim workout:
Have more time to spend in the pool? Sweet! Instead of deleting the swim workouts you don't want, you can move one of them to another day for some bonus yardage! Click on the swim you want to move, then drag & drop it to the day you want: 
And just like that, there's some another swim on Saturday that can be done before or after the run workout! Now you're ready to train!
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