#236 - How To Not Suck At Swimming - Part 5
Crushing Iron Triathlon Podcast
Mike Tarrolly
4.8 • 739 Ratings
🗓️ 24 January 2019
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
If you're not a strong swimmer, it has a big impact on the rest of your race. Today we look at how to simplify the complications surrounding swimmer so you can get faster, understand fatigue, and build purpose into your swim workouts.
Topics:
- Missed Workout guilt
- The Power of Walking
- Sitting at a Desk
- Losing Weight, Body Image
- Cotton Candy Body
- Why You Don't Get Faster in the Water
- Being Too Hard On Yourself
- The Anatomy of a Master's Swim
- Busy Work in the Pool
- Technology in the pool
- Making Swimming Simple
- Why You Should Swim Hard
- Why triathletes only have one speed
- Understanding Fatigue
- Taxing Your System
- 3 phases of your stroke
- Don't make swimming the least important
- Building Purpose into your swimming
- Do the work and don't suck
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Good Thursday morning, coach. |
| 0:12.8 | Welcome back, my friend. |
| 0:14.3 | I feel like it's been, it's been too long. |
| 0:16.8 | It has been a long time since Monday. |
| 0:21.0 | You know, I mean, for the audience, but for you and I, it's been a week. |
| 0:24.3 | I know. |
| 0:24.8 | We pre-recorded a little bit of that Monday, actually. |
| 0:28.0 | The amount of work that we do to get ahead and still provide two podcasts a week every week for the last two and a half years |
| 0:38.3 | sometimes we go above and beyond and I was |
| 0:40.3 | in a hotel room at way past my bedtime |
| 0:43.5 | and we were turning out |
| 0:45.4 | back-to-back podcasts so we could deliver |
| 0:48.0 | last Thursday and then this past |
| 0:50.2 | Monday as I was going to be on vacation |
| 0:53.1 | and the wonderful allegedly happiest place on |
| 0:57.2 | earth, Disney World. |
| 0:58.5 | The magic kingdom. |
| 1:00.4 | The magic kingdom. |
| 1:02.7 | That is magical magic. |
| 1:04.8 | Buddy, I'll tell you this right now. |
| 1:06.9 | And, you know, my wife is a gigantic Disney fan. |
| 1:11.0 | Obviously, that's the only reason we go. |
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