103 The Swimming Show: Cures for the Adult Onset Swimmer

Purple Patch Podcast

Matt Dixon

Humanpotential, Nutrition, Education, Empower, Fitness, Executive, Coach, Strengthtraining, Purplepatch, Sleep, Cycling, Performance, Running, Recovery, Health & Fitness, Ironman, Swimming, Timemanagement, Triathlon, Meditation, Yoga

4.8 • 647 Ratings

🗓️ 19 February 2020

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

If you are one of the many triathletes who struggle with the swim portion of a triathlon, you are likely an adult onset swimmer, the subject for this week's episode.

If you didn’t grow up with the green hair of over chlorination, you will likely never experience true comfort and weightlessness of being in the water, and yet, you must still prepare for the swim portion of your race. It's a source of challenge, frustration, and sometimes fear for many triathletes.

Today, we dive in with a whole episode anchored around the adult onset swimmer.

We provide the context and the path for you to maximize the limited time you have to achieve best results.
We also join the dots on how a dedicated focus in the swim does more for you as an athlete than just improving swim performance.
We describe different types of workouts and the purpose behind these sessions.
We dissect the critical mistakes we make and then outline steps to improve.

So, if you are frustrated in swimming or invested in becoming a better athlete, grab your goggles and let's dive in.

Also included in this episode:

The Dixon-ary Word of the Week: The Recovery Coach explains how proper recovery will equip you to do MORE EFFECTIVE work, not less.

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0:00.0	I'm Matt Dixon and welcome to the Purple Patch podcast.
0:03.5	The mission of Purple Patch is to empower and educate every human being to reach their athletic potential.
0:09.3	Through the lens of athletic potential, you reach your human potential.
0:13.3	The purpose of this podcast is to help time-starved people everywhere integrate sport into life.
0:20.4	And welcome to the Purple Patch podcast.
0:23.4	This is your host as ever, Matt Dixon.
0:26.7	And let me tell you this.
0:28.6	If you're one of the many triathletes who struggle with the swim portion of the event,
0:34.0	what I'm just about to say to you might make you a little bit mad.
0:38.3	You see, when I'm in the water, it is as natural of an environment for me as it is.
0:44.4	If I've got two feet on land, I feel grounded, normal, highly familiar.
0:51.3	It's the same for anyone who's grown up with a long history of swimming training,
0:56.0	years and years of looking at a black lion and getting used to having the vast majority
1:00.8	of our weight displaced by the water, similar, really similar, to the feeling of being weightless
1:06.7	in space. If you didn't grow up with green hair of over chlorination, you will likely never
1:13.4	experience this. And yet, you must prepare for the swim portion of the swim, a source of
1:19.5	challenge, frustration, and sometimes even fear for many triathletes. Today, we dive in a whole
1:26.0	episode anchored around the adult onset swimmer i'm going to provide
1:31.0	context the path for you to maximize the very limited time that you have available to achieve your
1:36.1	best results and we also join the dots on how a dedicated focus in the swim does more for you as
1:42.8	an athlete than just improving swim performance.
1:46.7	It's a goody today. If you're frustrated in swimming or invested in just becoming a better
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