#20 - How To Not Suck At Swimming Part 2
Crushing Iron Triathlon Podcast
Mike Tarrolly
4.8 • 739 Ratings
🗓️ 16 January 2017
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Due to a huge reaction to Part 1 of How To Not Suck At Swimming, we're back with a companion piece. Coach Robbie lives and breathes open water swimming and he's back with another round of great insight to becoming faster, stronger, and more efficient in open water. Topics covered today are:
- Proper breathing - How and When
- Body Positioning and how to get it right
- Hand entry and exit - How and When
- How to deprogram from bad advice, including workouts that get you there
- How to structure a swim week of workouts
- Should you join a Master's Team?
- Swimming square and why you swim crooked
Coach Robbie also has a big announcement and we'll tell you which country is second in Crushing Iron listenership.
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| 0:00.0 | Well, hello there. |
| 0:08.5 | Hey, Mike. What's up, man? |
| 0:10.2 | Not too much. How are you, Robbie? |
| 0:12.5 | Man, I'm just riding out this epic ice storm here in KFC. |
| 0:17.1 | Oh, yeah. Yeah. Is that moving the game? Wait, did they move the game? |
| 0:23.1 | They moved the game on Friday. They canceled schools here last Thursday night for Friday, and we literally have nothing. |
| 0:35.1 | Oh, no. I mean, how typical is that? |
| 0:38.5 | It's pretty typical, I think. |
| 0:40.0 | It's so typical of A, the news, and B, especially the weather. |
| 0:43.8 | I mean, we touched on this, or I send you a text message. |
| 0:47.0 | I'm like, everybody likes to bash the weathermen pretty much every single day of the year because they're wrong all the time. |
| 0:52.9 | Then when it comes something to panic about, everybody just jumps on board and goes ballistic. And that's what's |
| 0:58.7 | happened here. We're getting some spitting like rain right now. But the definition of storm has |
| 1:06.5 | been just adversely changed forever in my mind. |
| 1:11.1 | Well, maybe it'll come later, though, or is it done? |
| 1:14.0 | It's going to be 50 here tomorrow, so... |
| 1:17.3 | Okay. |
| 1:18.4 | Yeah, they failed. |
| 1:20.9 | Well, before we get going, I'd like to give a special shout out to our listeners in China. |
| 1:29.5 | They're really picking it up. |
| 1:30.9 | Actually, no, I was going to ask you a quick question just for fun. |
| 1:33.9 | I was just looking at the search. |
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