#12 - How To Not Suck At Swimming
Crushing Iron Triathlon Podcast
Mike Tarrolly
4.8 • 739 Ratings
🗓️ 19 December 2016
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
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As an age grouper I went from not being able to swim more than a lap to swimming a mass start at Ironman Wisconsin in 1:20. That process took less than a year following these principles. I followed that with a 1:06.
Coach Robbie has a strong swim background and focuses on open water. He's swam 53 minutes in Ironman and has a deep passion for helping his athletes be stronger, faster, and more efficient swimmers. Today he covers the following in detail:
1. Why drills are a waste of time.
2. Why building swim fitness should be powerful and purposeful.
3. The bigger your mesh bag, the slower you are committed to being.
4. The correct and most effective way to use paddles.
5. Why pool swimming and open water swimming are two different sports.
6. What an expensive wetsuit really does for your swim.
7. The power of the Pull Buoy.
8. The tools you need and the tools you don't need.
Plus, why Coach Robbie thinks IRONMAN should change the swim cut off from 2:20 to 1:40. He also gives two excellent (and customizable) workouts you can start using now to be a better swimmer next season.
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| 0:00.0 | good time michael what's y'all what you're up to buddy uh not much man about to get snowed in |
| 0:11.2 | it looks like oh yeah yeah we've got tornado warnings here oh that's what uh that's what one of my other |
| 0:17.8 | athletes said there in national said it was like 70 or something today |
| 0:20.9 | and it was supposed to like drop like crazy and super windy and so um yeah i got it's not |
| 0:27.0 | it's much fun i know i woke up and uh bundled up and put my gloves on and everything you |
| 0:32.1 | walk the dog and i walk outside it was like 78 or 70 degrees yeah it's uh it's seven here so snow and ice and it's |
| 0:42.1 | gonna be worse tomorrow so we uh did everything we could today so we won't have to like |
| 0:47.0 | leave the house or anything today or tomorrow and then supposed to warm up a little bit next week |
| 0:51.0 | but good day to be bundled up inside yeah it's not a good day to go |
| 0:55.2 | swimming out there it is not a good day to go swimming but much you want to brave the elements in the |
| 1:00.4 | road so today it's not a good day but every other day is a good day yeah but it's a great day to talk |
| 1:06.0 | about swimming i'm looking at we have a list here of like eight things |
| 1:11.1 | and I thought I would just go down the list and read them |
| 1:13.5 | and then you could kind of talk about your points, some of your points here. |
| 1:16.6 | Basically this is a nuts and bolts approach |
| 1:19.8 | to just being a better triathlon swimmer, period. |
| 1:24.8 | Stronger. |
| 1:25.9 | Stronger, faster, and more efficient. |
| 1:28.8 | Yeah, all the above. |
| 1:30.0 | All right. |
| 1:30.5 | Let's get right into it, man. |
| 1:32.3 | Number one, here's what it says. |
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