#683 – How to Not Suck at Swimming #11
Crushing Iron Triathlon Podcast
Mike Tarrolly
4.8 • 739 Ratings
🗓️ 9 May 2023
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Our favorite series is back!
What do you think about when you swim? Turns out, it should be a lot of things . . . but in small doses. Today we get into the importance of the front end of your stroke. We talk about how to have a strong catch and good feel for the water. Both of those can improve your speed in the water tremendously. We also get into the idea of thinking but not thinking. Micro thoughts and how to work on your swim on the fly. We get into stroke rhythm, head position, cause and effect changes, and sighting obsession. We also tell you why swimming "wrong" on purpose could help you stroke. Loads of top-line, actionable discussion today about how to make you a better swimmer.
Topics:
- All that fitness . . . gone.
- Without fun, what is there?
- Get you some C26 Gear!
- What do you think about when swimming?
- Head position in the water
- Bilateral vs breathing every stroke
- Good technique is free speed
- Not making huge changes
- Obsessing with one thing
- Everything is connected
- Spall changes matter
- Anti-singular drills
- Cause and effect
- High elbow
- Stroke rhythm too fast?
- Sighting obsession
- Try to swim wrong
- Always start in the front
- The back is a little gravy
- Finding feel for the water
- Owning your wrist position
- Swim stroke comparison with pedal stroke
- Running intervals compared to swim intervals
- Teach yourself to be an athlete
- Accumulate minutes of doing it right!
- Benefits of good form
- Going through the motions
- Swimming is a chronic load
- Bad form equals bad balance.
Coaching Inquiries
Mike Tarrolly - CrushingIron@gmail.com
Robbie Bruce - C26Coach@gmail.com
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | All right, man, let's have some fun today. |
| 0:22.2 | Let's have some fun. |
| 0:23.8 | It's May 9th, the year. |
| 0:26.3 | It's a couple of three. |
| 0:27.5 | Welcome aboard, everybody. |
| 0:28.9 | You'll listen to the Freshing Iron Podcast, episode 600 and 83. |
| 0:34.1 | Yeah, it is. |
| 0:34.6 | Without fun, what do you got, man? |
| 0:37.4 | But you got, you got nothing. You got too much serious, too much serious stuff. Yeah, it is. Without fun, what do you got, man? But you got, you got nothing. |
| 0:38.9 | You got too much serious, too much serious stuff. |
| 0:41.6 | Yeah, it's, uh, listen, I don't know what happened to spring, but I would welcome it back with open arms. |
| 0:47.8 | It was brutally hot here over the weekend, as I've read through, uh, training peaks comments the last two days. |
| 0:54.7 | Uh, apparently I'm not alone. |
| 0:55.9 | A lot of the country's been hit with some very, very unseasonably warm temps, humidity, dewpoint. |
| 1:02.9 | It's back. |
| 1:03.6 | And you know what else that means? |
| 1:05.0 | Your fitness? |
| 1:06.0 | Gone. |
| 1:06.8 | All that hard work from the off season? |
| 1:08.7 | Gone. |
| 1:09.2 | Fitness, gone. |
| 1:10.6 | Heart rate, high. P rate high pace slow you're done |
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