Power Rankings - Our top five sessions to improve your triathlon swimming

That Triathlon Show

Mikael Eriksson

Health, Swimming, Endurancesports, Run, Cycling, Health & Fitness, Fitness, Ironman, Swim, Bike, Sports, Running, Sportscience, Triathlon

4.9 • 596 Ratings

🗓️ 15 January 2026

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

We “Power rank” our favourite swim sessions. Some of these might not be favourites in the moment, but they most definitely are when it comes to the results they deliver in terms of improving your triathlon swimming! If you’re looking for some fresh ideas and perspectives to boost your swimming, this one is for you. Expect to find some bread and butter sets that have stood the test of time, but also some sets you had probably neither heard of nor thought of, but that work wonders.

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0:00.0	Welcome to That Trafflon Show, the podcast presented by scientific traflon and hosted by me, Michael
0:13.5	Erickson.
0:14.5	I'm joined once again by Jack Hutchens.
0:17.4	Welcome back, Jack.
0:18.3	How are you doing today?
0:19.3	Hey Michael, thanks a lot for having me yeah all good but now on the
0:23.1	bike this weekend it's been very very nice how about you yeah i'm good as well i'm i'm finally getting over
0:30.9	it seems my not getting over that's the wrong word but i have my hamstring injuries under control
0:35.8	so i put together a pretty good week of running 85 kilometers.
0:40.8	We're recording here on the Sunday.
0:42.0	So I actually just wrapped up the week with a shorter treadmill V-O2 session.
0:47.8	So that was really nice, really enjoyed that.
0:49.8	It was only my second intense session since I got sick at the very start of December.
0:54.8	So I feel like I've turned a corner and fitness is starting to, yeah, I'm in a good
0:59.5	place to start to build fitness again.
1:01.4	Nice.
1:01.8	That's some decent volume that better than me at the moment with my still ongoing injury,
1:06.9	unfortunately.
1:07.9	But yeah, nice.
1:10.2	It's also easier when I don't do any swimming and cycling at the moment, even though it's
1:16.6	a bit, it's sad not to do cycling because we've had some really nice weather here on the Portuguese
1:23.6	West Coast and yeah, it's like the itch to go out and ride a bike is sometimes very high but it's
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