Archive for August, 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!Last night, I attended the tri club san diego’s monthly meeting, and had the pleasure of seeing guest speaker Matt Hoover talk about his journey from losing 157 pounds on TV’s The Biggest Loser, to now training [...]

On Sunday, I went up to the Triathica Academy training center in Orange County, CA (about 1 hour, 10 minutes from my home in San Diego) to analyze some strokes for four triathletes. They were everything from beginner level to competitive, one woman, Julia is going to the world championships in Gold Coast, Australia in 2 weeks! We used the Endless Pool and were able to compare their underwater videos [...]

Woke up this morning and recorded a podcast for Healthy Mind, Fit Body. After this, around 9:30 a.m. I was greeted with a wood chipper across the street! Apparently, there was a fixer-upper for sale and it was just purchased. It’s a crappy old house that has all of its original features from the 1960′s, including pink paint, pink bars on all the windows, ugly white bricks on the outside [...]

Whether it’s swimming, running, or biking, make sure you are doing a proper warm down. Most masters swim teams I have been on do a lousy job implementing a warm down into workouts. It’s especially important after you have done sprints and large-effort swims to do at least a few lengths of easy swimming before you leave the pool. In these workouts, you will actually be building up more [...]

In this episode, I interview two amateur triathletes who had little to no experience swimming before doing triathlons. References: Sign up for the Tri Swim Coach newsletter at: www.triswimlessons.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 [...]

I see swimmers in my workouts bringing their Gatorade bottles or other sports drinks to the pool with them, and sipping them throughout practice. Hydration is good most of the time, but is water enough or do we need something extra while we work out? There are a wide variety of sports drinks available, most containing some type of glucose (sugar), and many with various amounts of electrolytes. [...]

How do I swim straight in the open water? This is a major challenge to open water swimming (and even swimming in a pool with lane lines!), and the key lies in one of our other fun challenges in swimming: breathing! Here’s a quick guide to swimming straight: 1. Simply doing alternate (or bi-lateral) breathing would go a long way towards making you swim in a straight. If you are comfortable with [...]