SWIMMING

Finding a pool in Paris is fairly easy using sites like this one, however, there are a lot of people who also want to use these facilities, which can make it difficult to put together a good quality training session. If your work is flexible we recommend going mid-afternoon (just after lunch) if not then early morning 7 am is probably your best bet.

Like running, just turning up and doing the same old thing isn’t going to help you progress though, a simple online search can find you many different types of session and technique advice, which you can decide (or not!) to follow.

SWIMMING POOL

Expatriés are lucky enough to have private swim lanes (just for us) almost every day of the week. These sessions are exclusively for Team members only, one of our trainers provides a workout based on the team training plan.

Swimming vocabulary translation

Acronyme	Français	Anglais	Commentaire	Exemples
Nages
Br	Brasse	Breast stroke		100m Br Swim 100m non-stop breast stroke Nager 100m non-stop en brasse
Cr / c	Crawl	Freestyle
Pap	Papillon	Butterfly
Dos	Dos crawlé	Backstroke
Jbs / Jbes	Battements de jambes	Leg kicks		50Cr/50Jbs Swim 100m, non-stop ,alternate 50m in breast stroke, and 50m legs kicks Nager 100m non-stop, 50m Crawl, 50m battements
Ondul	Ondulations	Wave-like body movement / dolphin kick
4N	4 nages	medley	Pap /dos / Br / Cr	100m 4nages 25Pap, 25dos, 25Br, 25 Cr (in this order / dans cet ordre)
Educ	Educatif	Drills	The coach will give the drills. Or, when the session just says Educ, if the coach says nothing (or if there is no coach) do the ones that you know are good for your technique. Le coach decrit les éductatifs. Si ce n’est pas le cas, ou si il n’y a pas de coach, effectuer les éducatifs
	Waterpolo	Waterpolo	Freestyle, keeping the head out of the water, looking forward Crawl en nageant la tête hors de l’eau et de face
	Rattrapé	Catch-up	Freestyle, one arm at a time Crawl, un bras après l’autre
NC	Nage Complète / sans pull buoy	Without Pull-buoy
	Costal	Side stroke	Swim on one side, one arm forward, one arm against the leg, kicking legs Nage sur un côté, un bras loin devant, l’autre le long de la cuisse, battre des jambes
	Fusée	Rocket	Two arms far forwards, hands together, shoulders touching the ears, leg kick Les deux bras en avant, les mains se touchent, et les épaules le plus près possible des oreilles, avancer en battement
	Torpille	Torpedo	Rocket position, and rotate the body every 5 seconds (specific to Laurent) En position fusée, pivoter le corps entier toutes les 5 secondes (spécifique à Laurent)

Materiel
PB / Pull	Pull buoy	Pull buoy		300 pull (75c,25 jbes)
P / PLQ	Plaquettes	Hand paddles
PP	Pull buoy + plaquettes	Pull buoy + paddles
PPE	Pull buoy / plaquettes / élastique	Pull buoy + paddles + elastic band		300 PE R1’ 3×100 PPE R25″ 50 souple 300 NC
	Elastique	Elastic band	Sometimes we swim with a PB and an elastic band around the ankles. Nous pouvons nager avec un pull buoy et un élastique autour des chevilles.
	Palmes	Fins
	Tuba	Snorkel

Techniques
	Souple	Easy
	Moyen	Medium
	Hypoxie	Hypoxia	Swimming (most often freestyle) with very little breathing Nager (le plus souvent en crawl) en respirant très peu	300 m 5tps , 25 3 tps , 50 7 tps, 25 libre
	Fractionné	Fartlek
	Culbute	Tumble turn
3/5/7 tps	3/5/57 temps	3/5/7 times	When training in hypoxia : the number of arm move before breathing Pendant un entrainement en hypoxie : le nombre de movements de bras avant chaque respiration	100m 3/5tps 100m 3/5/7tps 100m 3/9tps
Z1 – Z5	Zone 1 – Zone 5 (1 = facile, 5 = à fond)	Zone 1 – Zone 5 (1 = easy, 5 = all-out)		4×25 z1/z3/z1/z3
R= / r =	Récupération	Recovery		6x100m r = 25’’

LAKE SWIMMING

Cergy Base de Loisirs
Available for team members holding a Cergy Lake Pass ONLY (additional charge to pay to the lake management)

The club has an agreement with the base which allows any team member to use the lake for open water swimming.

Take a passport photo and you will get a pass for parking, access to changing rooms / showers / lockers, lake fully surveilled, you can swim anytime between sun up and own during the week, and between sun up and 13h the weekend.
Sylvain will be holding regular sessions here each sunday he is in town.

Pass holders are permitted to swim without team supervision :

April to August
> From Monday to Friday: access to the lake from sun up until sundown.
> Weekend and holiday: from sun up until 13h then you get to swim again in the evening

We advise you to never swim alone.
Please make sure your first time at a lake it either at an official team session, or with other experienced team members.

Torcy Base de Loisirs
April – September (depending on lake temperature)
Available for team members registered with the CD77 here

Pass holders are permitted to swim during the hours stated as long as they hold a lake pass, and wear the provided cap.
We advise you to never swim alone.
Please make sure your first time at a lake it either at an official team session, or with other experienced team members.

The Triathletes swim on Tuesday and Thursday evenings from 19h – 20h30 and the saturdays between 8h and 10h – meet here↵ – there are no changing rooms, but places to lock bikes – so go prepared.

We advise you to never swim alone.
Please make sure your first time at a lake is either at an official team session, or with other experienced team members.

Choisy le Roi
April – September (depending on lake temperature)
Available for team members holding a FFTri Licence, have agreed to the rules↵ and hold a validated Choisy le Roi Lake Pass ONLY (additional charge to pay to the lake management)

Pass holders must declare yourself ‘present’ on the day of each visit via a “presence button↵” on the CDTri94 website before each session.

Access is with the card CDTri94 + the Wetsuit + Swimming cap + Swimming buoy & swimming must be by at least by 2 in the ‘red’ zone of the map. Swimming is done in the green zone of the map.

On site, you will find car / motorcycle parking, but also a bicycle park. you will have access to changing rooms and showers (cold).

The Triathletes swim on Monday and Wednesdays evenings from 18h30 – 20h30 and the saturdays between 9h and 11h – meet here↵ .

We advise you to never swim alone.
Please make sure your first time at a lake is either at an official team session, or with other experienced team members.