Get Swimming Week Ten

This will be your first week swimming 1,600 meters, congratulations.

In Week 10 of The Irish Times Get Swimming course, Melanie Nocher focuses on the butterfly, sculling on your front and treading water, while also increasing your distance to 1600m. More details on irishtimes.com/getswimming

Welcome to Week 10 of Get Swimming, a 12-week programme brought to you by The Irish Times, in association with Swim Ireland. By this stage you should be on course to be able to swim a mile by May.

Week 10

This will be your first week swimming 1,600 meters, congratulations. We are focusing on breathing, timing, leg kick and arm pull this week. To relax we are looking at mushroom floating to hand stand and treading water. We are also going to give butterfly a go.

If you are taking part, you need to be able to commit to three training sessions a week. Remember, you can still register for Swim Ireland's Swim for a Mile challenge at swimforamile.com.

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Session 1

Total lengths = 60 lengths

Total distance = 1,500m

Session 2

Total lengths = 60 lengths

Total distance = 1,500m

Session 3

Total lengths = 64 lengths

Total distance = 1,600m

Click here to download the full Week Ten training plan as a printable PDFOpens in new window ]

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