Archive for July, 2009

The Essential Triathlon Swimming DVD. Discover the secrets to improving your swim technique, avoiding painful injuries, and shaving minutes off your best triathlon times to date!We are getting ready to release The Healthy Mind, Fit Body book within the next few days and wanted to answer some of the questions that are coming in and are bound to come up for a lot of people. We are still working on some [...]

In this episode, I discuss tactics for handling cold water and answer a question about cramps. References: Healthy Mind, Fit Body: New book Priority list at http://www.healthymindfitbody.com Please comment on this podcast! Tri Swim Coach podcast comments: Open up iTunes and type in ‘Tri Swim Coach’ in the search field. Click on the Tri Swim Coach podcast and add your comments/ratings Music: The [...]

Whether or not you have my training guide for triathlon swimming, you may need some help structuring your workouts or just need more background on how the workouts in my book are formulated. Let’s look at a typical workout and dissect it. 300 Warm Up 300 yards or meters. 12 lengths in a 25 yard or meter pool. During a warm up, you should be going at a moderate pace, working on bilateral breathing, [...]

In about an hour, I will be jumping on a plane headed to Sacramento, and visiting a friend there tonight until leaving for Lake Tahoe, CA tomorrow for the Trans Tahoe Relay. It’s a race across the width of Lake Tahoe, about 11.5 miles. This is a 6-person relay where we have a boat, and each person swims for 30 minutes, and again for 15 minutes until we finish the race. The last time I did this [...]

If you did not get a chance yet, I’m still looking for some input on what your weight challenges are, and what you think current “diet plans” are lacking. Sign up for the Priority Notification list for my new book, Healthy Mind, Fit Body: How the Mind-Body Connection Can Help You Achieve Your Perfect Weight, and get a free 23-minute audio: “5 Common Issues in Achieving Your [...]

A topic that came up in the Beginner Triathlete chat forums last night was, how quickly to add distance to your workouts in swimming? There’s no “one size fits all” here, but generally, you want to be conservative when increasing the distance of your workouts. Focus on your technique first with drills, then decrease the amount of drills you do and increase your yardage by about 200-400 [...]

For some, making your workouts count may mean “go hard or go home”, or “no pain, no gain”, or some other silly expression. Making your workouts count really should mean setting weekly goals and following through. You may want to decrease your average stroke count per length, decrease your interval, or increase the amount of yards/meters you do. When you set out these mini-goals [...]

After my 2.5 month trip to Australia and New Zealand last year, I didn’t exactly keep in great swimming shape. This was partly due to not having a car to get around, and partly due to sight seeing as much as humanly possible. However, I did not just let my swimming go. I made sure to get in at least once per week- doing between 1000-1500 meters. I also kept up on a short strength training routine [...]

In this episode, I interview Ironman Triathlon Coach Patrick Mcrann of Endurance Nation. References: Endurance Nation: http://www.endurancenation.us Book: 10 Hours a Week: The Age Grouper’s Guide to Competitive Triathlon DVD: The 4 Keys To Long Distance Triathlon Training Tri Swim Coach podcast comments: Open up iTunes and type in ‘Tri Swim Coach’ in the search field. Click on the [...]