Learning to improve your swimming kick is so very important for triathletes. Triathletes need to focus on conserving energy in swimming even more than pure swimmers. After our swim, we still have 2 more gruelling legs to complete before we can stop (and two rather stressful transitions!). Efficiency rules the day in the swim leg. […]
Swimming for triathletes: Why is breathing so darn difficult?
Swimming for triathletes can be one of the biggest reasons that even very fit athletes, give up triathlon. Many say they just “can’t get their breathing right”. In most cases it is not lack of fitness, rather lack of technique. Poor swimming is not lack of fitness, rather it is lack of technique. Click To […]
Swim Drills For Triathletes: Top 5 Bad Ass Swim Drills
Learning correct swim drills for triathletes is essential to race fast and reduce effort level required. High mileage without good technique is a recipe for disaster. It means either you just won’t improve very much (as you will just be getting stronger at the wrong thing) OR you will get swimmer’s shoulder and rotator cuff tendonitis due to loading the […]
Outdoor Strength Training For Triathletes
Outdoor strength training for triathletes is a source of much debate amongst athletes and coaches. For me it is a no-brainer! If you want to be any type of athlete- you need to be strong! Whether it is dancing, long jump, martial arts or triathlon- of any distance. Strength is the ability of your muscles to […]