#126 - How To Not Suck At Swimming - Part 4
Crushing Iron Triathlon Podcast
Mike Tarrolly
4.8 • 739 Ratings
🗓️ 4 January 2018
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Triathlete's can't get enough swim talk and the Crushing Iron Podcast is listening. Here is Part 4 of our popular "How To Not Suck At Swimming" series. Swimming has so many moving parts and aside from the topics below the guys get into a general "How To Learn" and get in the right mindset mode when it comes to swimming.
- Are Swimming Tools like a Drag chute right for you?
- How many days in pool to see faster times?
- How to avoid bending at knees while kicking?
- Need to bilateral breathe?
- How to stop crossover arms? Drills?
- Importance of stroke cadence… what to measure and wis it important? why? confused about speeding up stroke
- The Truth about Total Immersion swimming?
- Strength work outside of the pool?
- What muscles should we target?
- When and why to use stretch cords?
- How to practice sighting in a pool
- Master's Swimming Rant?
Note: How To Not Suck at Swimming Part 1 is episode #12. How to Not Suck at Swimming Part 2 is episode #20. Part 3 is #125.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, Mike. |
| 0:16.3 | Hey, Robbie. |
| 0:19.0 | I just don't plug. |
| 0:20.5 | I heard you. Got it. Gosh, I meant don't plug. I heard you. |
| 0:21.5 | Got it. |
| 0:23.2 | Gosh, I meant to do it right before I answered, but hey, it's still an improvement. |
| 0:28.3 | Have you called, I mean, you got to talk to something about your wiring over there. |
| 0:33.2 | Is it off? |
| 0:34.3 | No, it's off, yeah. |
| 0:35.8 | Oh, well, my charger was plugged in. |
| 0:38.0 | I know, but boy. |
| 0:40.3 | I mean, hey, maybe it's time for a new laptop. |
| 0:42.2 | I don't know. |
| 0:42.8 | Actually, it's probably actually time for a new charger. |
| 0:45.7 | This charger's been through the ringer. |
| 0:48.2 | And it's kind of, it's one of those, like, it's at the point to where I have to spend, three or four minutes in like a really meditative |
| 0:56.0 | Japanese origami mode. |
| 1:01.1 | Yeah. |
| 1:01.4 | Like construct my wire to like the perfect angle and curvature to where it connects and stays |
| 1:06.9 | charged. |
| 1:07.7 | So it's probably time for a new one, but I don't like spending money. |
| 1:11.7 | So I'm probably going to, you know, wait it out until I have a meltdown one day and get a new one. |
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