SWANSEA City are jetting off for a warm-weather training break in a bid to ensure the sun keeps shining on their Premier League survival bid.

Brendan Rodgers's players will head out to Tenerife after this weekend's Premier League clash with Norwich City to take advantage of a rare gap in the fixture list.

After the Canaries come the Canaries.

Once the Norwich game is out of the way, Swansea have 15 days without a game before they go to Stoke City on February 26 as they are out of the FA Cup.

As a result, Rodgers has planned a five-day trip he feels will boost his squad as they head towards the final third of their top-flight campaign.

"It's a long season and we have a tough schedule coming up in March and April, so this is about trying to make sure the players are refreshed and ready for the games we still have to play," explained Swansea chairman Huw Jenkins.

"The idea is for the players to go out and have a change — it's a chance to recuperate because of the good weather and nice surroundings.

"It's not about training so much as recovery, and it's also nice sometimes for the management and staff to spend some time together, whatever line of business you are talking about."

Swansea will travel to a specialist training base near the resort of La Caleta which has also been used by the likes of Manchester City, Newcastle United and Everton.

Rodgers's players will have exclusive use of a natural grass pitch, 3G artificial pitch, three-lane running track, indoor and outdoor gym, 25-metre pool and a hydrotherapy flume channel for injury recovery.

"The fact is that something like 90 per cent of Premier League clubs and a lot of Championship clubs are doing this sort of thing," Jenkins added.

"The weather here is not good at the moment and, because we have a weekend without a game, it's an opportunity to go away which Brendan wants to take."

Ideally, of course, Swansea will fly to the Canary Islands on the back of a second successive win.

Norwich's visit to Wales means a clash of two of the top division's unlikely success stories.

Both clubs have won more points than those on the outside forecast at the start of the season — and both have won praise for their playing styles.

Only rarely have Swansea failed to perform this term, although one of those occasions was at Carrow Road back in October.

Rodgers's men should be keen to make amends for their 3-1 defeat in East Anglia this Saturday, when another home success would take them to 33 points.

Were they to manage that, they could reflect on a job extremely well done when on Spanish soil next week.

"We are on track," Jenkins said.

"We are where we thought we would be in comparison to opposition sides.

"We always believed that our boys would quietly grow in confidence, that reassurances about them being good enough to compete in the Premier League would come.

"So far we have been proved right."

Swansea are a very healthy tenth in the top tier after last Saturday's impressive win at West Bromwich Albion.

After so many struggles on their travels in the first half of the season, Swansea now have two successes in their last three league games away from the Liberty.

At home, meanwhile, Rodgers's side have been formidable, and Norwich will have to achieve a feat only Manchester United have managed this season if they are to leave Wales with three Premier League points.

Swansea look a stronger outfit now than they have at any previous stage since they moved up to this level, as recent results against Tottenham, Arsenal and Chelsea would suggest.

"I think probably some of the wins and performances we've had against the top sides since December have given the players confidence that they can go on and do well between now and the end of the season," Jenkins continued.

"Hopefully they can now take things forward."

The talk within the Swansea dressing room at present is that Ashley Williams and company can aim to retain their place in the top half of the table right through until May.

That would be an extraordinary achievement for a club who were almost universally written off outside these parts after they won the Championship play-off final last spring.

Finishing 2011-12 as one of the ten best clubs in the land would be laudable, but the main thing is that Swansea are not somewhere between 18th and 20th in that list when the curtain falls on this campaign.

"Our first objective is to try to stay in the Premier League," Jenkins said.

"Hopefully then that will give the club a chance to grow in the future, and we are probably well on target to achieve our goal.

"But we have to keep focused. We are well aware of how difficult this league can be and that it is possible to go on a run of disappointing results all of a sudden.

"We have to stay focused and keep working hard to make sure that does not happen to us."

Swansea will rest some weary limbs in Tenerife, and enjoy some down-time before the league season really warms up.

Yet if all goes to plan, they will be able to relax once more come the final weeks of the campaign.

By the final throes, after all, Swansea may well have got their hard work done.