Top 10 Things You Should Know About Masters Swimming As a Triathlete (Part 1)
Many people in the triathlon community, particularly the beginner crowd, believe that masters swim teams (coached group workouts for those 18 years of age and older) are for fast, competitive swimmers that probably swam on teams their whole lives. These triathletes tell me that there is no room for novices, and they feel out of [...]
Read More Of This Article...Practice drills or build endurance?
What should your focus in swimming be? It really depends on what level swimmer you are. If you’re: -A new swimmer -Still swimming flat in the water with no hip rotation or -Plateauing or having a tough time making gains then I would recommend 90-100% of your time spent in the water to be practicing [...]
Read More Of This Article...Play Free Golf for a better, faster freestyle
Open water swimmers and triathletes are often confused on how to get faster. Often, they think that they need to swim fast to go fast. In other words, just train harder and do sprints at workouts. Since swimming is so technique-focused, the fastest way to getting faster in the water is to play a game [...]
Read More Of This Article...Tri Swim Coach Podcast #6- 10 Steps to Improve Your Triathlon Swim
In this episode, we cover: The 10 most important things to work on to improve your triathlon swim Question of the week: What to do after you have improved your stroke and can swim 1650 yards? References: Waterproof Drill Cards: http://triswimcoach.com/swimdrillcards.php Tri Swim Coach podcast comments: Open up iTunes and type in ‘Tri Swim Coach’ [...]
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Swimming in Cold Water
I’ll be the first to say, I hate the cold! Cold air, and especially cold water. 14 years of competitive swimming, I never once got used to or enjoyed jumping into a cold pool. These days, I prefer open water swimming to pool swimming, but refuse to get in our local Pacific Ocean until it [...]
Read More Of This Article...50 meter vs. 25 yard or 25 meter pools
When training for a triathlon, is it okay to train in a 25 yard or meter pool, or should you try to swim in a 50 meter pool as much as possible? Most pools in the U.S. are unfortunately 25 yards in length. Some are 50 meters (which is the real Olympic-size), but even most [...]
Read More Of This Article...Last chance on drill cards sale
People have been grabbing up the drill cards like hot cakes! After tomorrow at 12 noon PST, the price will go up and we will likely be out of sets for a few weeks. Until then, you can still pick up a set of drill cards at: http://www.triswimcoach.com/swimdrillcards.php Don’t be left out, start your accelerated [...]
Read More Of This Article...Waterproof Swim Drill Cards are now LIVE!
The long-awaited Tri Swim Coach Waterproof Drill & Workout Cards are now live and ready to be delivered. Get all the details here: http://triswimcoach.com/swimdrillcards.php The first 100 sets are going to go fast – I’m sending notifications out to my 3 lists of over 15,000 triathletes, and I’ve only got 400 printed up for the [...]
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