Triathlon Swim Sets For Better Racing
This week’s triathlon news we are going to talk about how you can simulate a race in training so that you improve your performance and improve your results in your triathlon swimming races. 00:24 – Initial Speed and Fine Rhythm 01:30 – Fartlek 02:15 – Broken Swim at Race Pace All these types of workouts […]
How to Maintain Your Swim Pace in a Triathlon
Welcome to the first triathlon news video. Today we’re going to cover a couple of things including what you can do to maintain the same pace in a triathlon, how you can best warm up for a triathlon so you don’t take a few hundred meters to get into it and we’re also going to […]
How Important Is Your Kick In Triathlon?
How important is your kick in a triathlon? Well, if you’re doing a 70.3 or full distance ironman then your kick isn’t as important as your pull is. Because you want to save your energy for the bike and your run leg. So to do that you have to kick smaller and not kick too hard […]
How To Train For Open Water, Improving Technique Without A Coach
Highlights this week: How To Train For Open Water– So you have an open water event coming up, but you’re not sure how to train for it. There’s three types of workouts I use for open water training. Aerobic, anaerobic and speed.Aerobic workouts are when you are training at 65-85% of your maximum heart rate. A […]
Taking The Brakes Off Your Runners Hips
As a coach I can pick if a swimmer has a running background within a split second. I can spot ‘runner’s hips’ from a mile away, and it reduces your speed more than any other mistake in freestyle.
‘Runner’s hips’ are when a swimmer is bending at the waist, making their rear end float but their legs sink. A huge amount of drag is made on your thighs and the power you can generate from your shoulder and hip rotation is lost.
7 Ways To Swim Faster This Year
Pick a race to target Without a goal or destination it’s difficult to be inspired at training. I’ve found that picking a race to train up for is 10x more motivating than swimming of the sake of keeping fit. It’s not that staying fit or getting fit isn’t a worthy goal, but the pressure of […]
