FITNESS
We’ve grown to love high-intensity interval training, but previously it was just available on land. However, that’s set to change with a raft of new classes taking it to the pool. Ian Freeman, coaching system technical lead at the Amateur Swimming Association, says, ‘swimming offers constant resistance, working virtually every muscle in the body’. But just doing lengths won’t cut it as, Freeman says, your body gets used to it and results plateau. He advises swapping strokes, varying swim speeds and using floats and pull buoys ‘to create additional resistance, making your body work harder’.