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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| Waterpolo | Waterpolo | Freestyle, keeping the head out of the water, looking forward
Crawl en nageant la tête hors de l’eau et de face |
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| Rattrapé | Catch-up | Freestyle, one arm at a time
Crawl, un bras après l’autre |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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) |
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| 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 |
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| 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. |
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| 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.
