#657 – How To Not Suck at Swimming #9

Crushing Iron Triathlon Podcast

Mike Tarrolly

Ironman, Nutrition, Triathlon, Podcast, Fitness, Swimming, Training, Coaching, Health & Fitness

4.7 • 724 Ratings

🗓️ 6 February 2023

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Not sure how much or how far to swim? Wondering why you don’t get faster? Have open water anxiety?

This podcast is for you. We look at how to properly use time in the pool. We look at building fitness BEFORE technique.

Then show you how to marry them both in an effective progression. We look at the difference between pool swimming and open water.

We look at drills… which ones work and which ones are wasting your time. Anxiety beating techniques. Wetsuits.

Fear. Swimming in salt water and techniques for two loop swim courses so you can avoid congestion.

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Topics:

How much should you swim?
Time professions
Build FITNESS to HOLD FORM
25s, 50s, and long stuff in combination
“I don’t get any faster”
Fine tuning the connection of technique and fitness
The drills you’re doing don’t work
Commit to swimming more days than you’re not
Pools have nothing in common with open water racing
Thinking slows you down
Marry “drills” into your swimming
Reach for the corners - Railroad Tracks
Single Arm Drills
Paddle work and Pull Buoy with Band
Hanging - engage lats
Open Water ANXIETY
Why are you afraid?
Control your breathing
Warm up
Breathe and get a lather
Practice in your wetsuit
Learn to feel how it feels
The fear behind the feeling is the problem
Swimming in salt water
Second loop of race techniques

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Transcript

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0:00.0	All right.
0:03.0	All right. It's a little nippy here, but a great day to talk about swimming.
0:22.7	Can't wait. I mean, is there ever a bad day to talk about swimming? It is a beautiful, beautiful day here in Overland Park, Kansas. The sun is out. It's in the mid-50s. It's a great day. We hope this is a great podcast. It's February 6th, 2020. Welcome on board, everybody. You're listening to the Crushing Iron podcast, episode 600 and 57.
0:46.1	657 is right. Yeah. And we're going to skip the whole intro and go right into swimming.
0:50.9	Yeah. I mean, we'll give a soft little intro because, but yeah, I'm going to try to be concise
0:55.9	today, but you guys know, as we told you last week, we're going to talk about swimming this
0:59.7	week, but when I get to talking about swimming, I just go on a rampage because I'm passionate
1:04.2	about it.
1:04.7	I love it.
1:05.3	It's important and it's a huge struggle.
1:07.5	But if sure there's time tuning in today, welcome. We appreciate you giving us your time.
1:11.6	We know you have quite a lot of options in the triathlon podcast universe and just podcasts
1:16.7	in general, it turns very valuable.
1:18.7	So we appreciate you tuning in today.
1:20.1	We cover it all.
1:20.9	We do swim bike and run specific podcasts.
1:23.0	We do race recaps and also all of these previews but for the most part mike and i as coaches
1:27.7	athletes best friends we just sit back relax heaven open our discussion about what we're going
1:33.2	through in life not just as human beings but also as coaches and athletes ourselves we also talk
1:38.1	frequently about what our own athletes are going through mike and i work with a wide range of
1:41.9	athletes all across the globe from beginning a little bit triathletes looking at the very first 5k or sprint triathlon all the way up
1:48.1	through elite love amateurs trying to get back to the world championships and everyone in
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