Beginner Swim Sessions | Workouts For New Swimmers

I might be extremely dumb but neither an english native nor a swim veteran so i miss quite some vocabulary here: what is a drill session, what a pull, what's regarded as easy? Please explain i.e. be more specific with what you mean if your target audience is really beginners, which means people doing a swim training for the first time in their lifes

This is literally insane. A new swimmer can get 25-50 yards before a 30 second rest.

Beginner swim sessions for new swimmers - learn to walk before you can run. Start out at 5 x 200m sessions. 200m??!! 5 times??!!! If that's beginner and walking before you can run, then I must be crawling (excuse the pun). I can barely do 2 lengths without having to stop. So is there a pre-beginner workout plan?

What part of ‘beginner’ do you not understand.

Yeah first set if you could just bang out 200m.

Uh huh, cheers.

Erm... beginner?

The key thing to get from this is the structure. If you are a beginner consider your 25mts as the 100mts on this video. Keep practicing and improve indurance and then you will be using thia structura with 50,75,100.

good luck!

This seems a little advanced for a beginner swimmer...

Beginner workout? Try again mate lol 😂

I’ve been learning to swim front crawl since 2019 and only just realised that reach and glide helps the body to roll and legs to kick with some kind of fluidity. I’ve been doing it wrong all this time!

what is drill?

Triathletes think they are fast until a seasoned competitive swimmer gets in the pool .... especially after getting lapped repeatedly...😂...

I love the British accent & already ordered a cap, ear plugs & nose plug. Got goggles at Costco.😀

😂 good luck swimming 1km as a beginner, with little to no coaching, in your first ever swimming session. Let alone swimming 100m back to back with only a 30s recovery. This is not a beginner work out.

I just want swim continuously without needing to rest as much. Right now I can only do sets of 50s. I can do 100s but after my first 100 I kind of don’t feel that I can do it again I try but my 50s still feel tiring I take a whole minute to do 50s.

Do you do crawl in this?

So I didn't quite understand, for the aerobic session, do we do all the sets in one day or do we gradually increase over the sessions?

People who are just begging to swim or aren’t on a team or club don’t know what these distances are btw

it's exactly the video I was looking for, thanks!

I’m sure these are good reps but as someone new to the sport these are hardly beginner sets. This type of expectation just puts people off who are new to Tri so please include something more realistic for real beginners.

Hi GTN, I have been enjoying your channel and have been trying to improve my freestyle.
I do not have a swimming back ground, however this year I have decided to set myself the challenge of being able to swim 50M butterfly.
I would appreciate any tips that you have on how to butterfly correctly.
A video to watch would naturally be helpful.

Is it OK to add a speed set to the end of any of the other workouts?

Great video as always. Looking forward to changing my usual training with these.

Having signed up for my first two Olympic triathlons this year, this video was just what I needed. It's saved, and will definitely come back to it in the future. Thanks for helping me start my training, and new year off right!

This is super helpful thank you so much GTN !!!!

Thank you GTN for covering a topic which every coach will have their own view on.



In all sports the ethos: ‘first move well. then move often’ is as good an ethos as any - such an ethos if undertaken and overseen under the tutelage of a triathlon/open water swim specific coach would be the best way for a newbie to not only start their swim improvement journey, but for them to stay on the right tracks. 

Too many athletes (and especially triathletes) simply progress to too much distance too quickly.



Keep up the good content GTN



All the best to you ALL for 2020

Is there any pro forma timing targets for the 25/50/100/400/1000 m for the beginners for each type of session above? I can do 2-3km in a slow pace, but whats the point...Thanks a lot! Happy 2020!

What kind of fins are you using in the video?

22nd! Happy New Year!

Hi guys I’m 58 never really been a swimmer but determined to do the London tri in august this year with my son , just started swimming 🏊‍♂️ at my local pool in Hornchurch which at present is 33 metres long I managed 1 length 😩 before my lungs were going to make there own way out of the pool and back to the changing room 🤷🏻‍♂️ I’m going for the sprint distance which is 750 metres long , judging by today’s attempt would I progress quick enough over the 8 months to achieve 750 metres , I would like to do all front crawl , do you think 🤔 this would be achievable I know I could drop down to breastroke but would prefer all front crawl , got myself some floaty pants to help me, any suggestions or tips would be very welcoming , love your Chanel , all the best you guys for 2020 xxx

Can anyone explain what pull means ?

How do I breath? Not just swimming or even in training, but in general day to day life.

So for each swimming sesh how many minutes to roughly calculate?

I wish you were my coach

Another Aerobic main set example- 500-400-300-200-100 for a 1500m set. Or 400-300-200-100 for 1000m.

For a beginner how many aerobic sessions per week, and is the idea to start with the shorter sets then move up to the 500m sets ? Great vid as always - Thanks.

What's an "easy pull"?! Sorry if I missed that.....all this Tri swimmer jargon is a bit lost on me.

I’ll be doing my first sprint distance in may and my first Olympic triathlon in June. I’m fairly confident in my running and cycling capabilities, but I’ve only learned how to swim freestyle this summer. I can almost swim the distance, but my pace really is lacking. I’m currently doing 3min/100m. Keep in mind, I’ve never done a speed session in my life. Should is start doing these now? Or should I wait a bit longer, focus on my technique and start doing these speed sessions closer to the race.

Also, happy New Year everyone!

Thanks a lot for the tips !! Happy 2020 to all you !

What do you mean by "pull"

First ! Happy New Year everyone !