If you don’t swim in a straight line, you can easily add 10-20% to the distance you swim. In an Ironman distance swim, that’s adds up to 400 meters. It …
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Open Water Swim Warm-Up
You may not always be able to warm up in the water before the start of your open water or triathlon event. However, this doesn’t mean you just walk up to the …
Attention triathletes: When you swim, use your kick for balance, not propulsion.
Do triathletes need to strengthen their kick to become a better swimmer? I discuss How to swim without kicking on the Endurance Hour YouTube channel. When I …
Triathlon Then and Now
I remember my first race like it was yesterday. The summer after my freshman year in college, my teammate asked me to do the swim part of the Great Lakes …
My warm-up is my main set: Getting back into swim training
Getting back into a certain fitness level can be challenging after time off, especially a technical sport of swimming. The longer the time off, the more …
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T2Coaching: 5 Steps To Control Your Breathing While Swimming
Swimmers that are training to improve their freestyle swimming technique often make the mistake of focusing their efforts on perfecting the 3 phases of the …
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