Please feel free to contact either myself or the necessary experts for advice where needs be. To place all swimmers in a position to swim a 3km, 10km and 25km event this season. This is a basic guide to finishing the events, and not winning them. Bruce Fordyce doesn t run the 200m sprint, and Frankie Fredericks does not compete in the Comrades. If you can swim 6km in open water, then you can easily swim 10km.
Most swimmers give up long distance swims, because of hyperthermia ie rapid loss of body heat.
Energy drinks such as Energade, Sustagen, Maxim, should be used regularly during training. Your diet and training feeding must become part of the long distance swimmer s everyday routine. The schedule essentially relates to open water training.