Weekly Blog by Swim Smooth

Weekly Blog by Swim Smooth

The Goldilocks Set

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Paul Newsome, Swim Smooth
Mar 19, 2010
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Spring is nearly here in the Northern Hemisphere and we know that many of you triathletes are increasing the intensity of your training in preparation for the race season ahead. Here's a favourite challenging main-set of ours to start to develop your threshold speed in the water. We call it the Goldilocks set:

(If you're still learning to swim freestyle …

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