Irish Olympic Champion Daniel Wiffen posted his weekly training schedule on Instagram yesterday, which includes 10 swimming sessions and four gym/core workouts.
His post lays out his day-by-day training schedule, with his lowest-volume days on Wednesday and Saturdays, the only days that he only has one swim session, and no dryland work (except for Sunday, which is not listed, presumably as an off day of training).
In total, Wiffen’s schedule shows about 23 hours of training per week, 20 hours of swimming, and another three hours in the gym and on land.
He captioned his post “Olympic champion training schedule ✅ #training #olympian”, in a way, portraying the message of “so you want to be an Olympic distance swimming champion?”
His post was also shared with the geotag of Dublin, as he is fully back to his pre-Cal training setting.
Daniel Wiffen‘s Training Schedule:
- Monday
- Swim: 7:30-9:30 am
- Gym: 10:15-11 am
- Swim: 3-5 pm
- Tuesday
- Swim: 7:30-9:30 am
- Core: 10:15-11 am
- Swim: 3-5 pm
- Wednesday
- Swim: 7:30-9:30 am
- Thursday
- Swim: 7:30-9:30 am
- Core: 10:15-11 am
- Swim: 3-5 pm
- Friday
- Swim: 7:30-9:30 am
- Gym: 10:15-11 am
- Swim: 3-5 pm
- Saturday
- Swim: 8-10 am
Wiffen recently moved back to his home country of Ireland after spending several months training at Cal, where his brother, Nathan Wiffen, swam for Cal in the NCAA this past year.
The return home came after hinting that if the Irish Open Championships did not go according to plan, he would leave and return to training in Ireland, where he trained ahead of the Paris 2024 Olympics, where he won gold in the 800 freestyle.
Though he said he was happy with his time spent stateside, he told Virgin Media Sport that he believes he will be back to his personal bests within the next few weeks of training back at home.
In that interview with Virgin Media Sport, he mentioned that he will be training very similarly to how he was leading up to Paris, which he wasn’t doing while at Cal.
Wiffen, a well-documented, data-driven athlete, was recently announced as a global partner with swimwear and triathlon company deboer, the company’s first global athlete.
Have not yet seen Wiffen nose breathing
So much easier sleep wise when you are not a full time student or full time worker. I mean good on him though.
He is an Olympic champion.
Old ways of training haven’t yet died away…but perhaps some day.
I could be wrong but I feel like he could be more toned, Idk if he used to be and thats why he has regressed as of late
Throwback to when Marco Koch terrorized the 200m breaststroke with a belly
Normal rules don’t apply to breaststroke.
What is this “breaststroke” that you speak of?
(Joke.)
I have also noticed that Wiffen does not look “in shape” recently. Dude made some choices, and paid for them.
Slacker — takes Sundays off.
This is one of the schedules of all time
Cal swimming
Idk anything about CAL Swimming, but was their sched in a different galaxy than this? Sit around sipping margueritas half the day?