#444 – Swimming Fast and Fresh
Crushing Iron Triathlon Podcast
Mike Tarrolly
4.7 • 724 Ratings
🗓️ 19 January 2021
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Do you feel stalled in your swim progress? We're sure there's a nugget or two in here that will help you get faster while staying fresh. We look at the pull buoy dilemma and how to break the habit, turnover and the difference between fast and efficient. We also talk about mechanics including hand entry, how to get there, and what to do next. Break the bad habits and start using the water to get where you want to go.
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Topics:
- It’s not about being in a hurry
- It’s simpler than you think
- So many ways to teach swimming
- Bad habits and fall backs
- When you’re not getting faster
- Stalled? Repressed?
- What we say to those who say “The swim doesn’t matter”
- The Pull Buoy Dilemma
- Making Swimming Easier
- Narrowing your focus
- Combining the Pull Buoy with Bands
- The importance of lengthening from the hips
- Similarities between swimming and cycling
- Water as a means to getting where you want to go
- Even if the mechanics are perfect . . .
- Swimming over a barrel
- How to enter the water properly
- The purpose and benefit of paddles
- Shoulder, elbow, hand
- Turnover - Fast or Efficient? What’s the difference?
- Can you keep the same turnover and be faster?
- Effort and Return on Investment
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| 0:00.0 | All right. |
| 0:17.0 | All right. |
| 0:17.5 | We may or may not have had a visit from our landlord just now. |
| 0:25.6 | This is our take three. We never even have like passed to take one, but I'm feeling a little bit rusty, but we're still here. It's yet rusty is a good way to put it. When you go like eight days without casting, it feels like it's like eternity. |
| 0:30.6 | You are, you're like, I just can't continue. |
| 0:32.6 | I just can't continue on. Like I just can't do. We never even edit these things. But today I was like, now I wanted a strong start. I feel like it's been like forever since we did one of these |
| 0:40.1 | that haven't even been a week. But sometimes it feels that way. And today, no, we did. Yeah, |
| 0:45.2 | we did one last Wednesday. It was been less than a week, but it feels like an eternity. |
| 0:48.4 | I know, but we recorded early for Thursday. Yeah, we did Tuesday. So it's been a week. It's been eight days. So it has |
| 0:55.0 | felt like an eternity. Yeah. And when you do these twice a week, a week, like it does. It feels like |
| 1:00.3 | forever. Like I honestly don't know how, you know, podcast to do it's like once a week or like twice a month. |
| 1:05.2 | I'm like, I don't know how you get a rhythm. Like I'm already struggling right now. This is already like a three in a scale with the 10. We don't even really know who we are. |
| 1:11.5 | Yeah. |
| 1:11.8 | And it's like, |
| 1:12.2 | I've lost it. |
| 1:12.8 | What did we do in this podcast anyway? |
| 1:14.1 | Which you're probably already asking. |
| 1:15.2 | I haven't been listening. |
| 1:16.1 | So I apologize. |
| 1:17.3 | Welcome aboard. |
| 1:18.4 | This is a crushing iron podcast. |
| 1:20.0 | We are episode 444. |
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