Keri-anne Payne is a double open water world champion, triple Olympian and Olympic silver medallist in the 10k open water marathon at the Beijing Olympics in 2008. She created the Straight-Line Swimming methodology with her husband, triple Olympian David Carry. straightlineswimming.com
When I speak to swimmers about their training I often get asked “How do you make it less boring?”. Firstly, I hardly ever found training boring as each session had a purpose which contributed to my overall end goal. So, no matter if it was a Monday morning or a Wednesday afternoon I knew what I was doing and how it would make me a better swimmer.
The mistake a lot of people make when it comes to training is the type of session they are doing. Just swimming up and down for an hour every session isn’t going to make you a better swimmer and will very quickly become boring! Mixing session focuses during a week or from week to week will keep things interesting and more importantly actually make you a better swimmer. If you want to get faster or fitter you need to train smarter. Here are some of the sessions I used to do and how you can adapt them to make your training more interesting and ultimately make you fitter and faster.