#727 – How To Not Suck At Swimming - Part 12
Crushing Iron Triathlon Podcast
Mike Tarrolly
4.8 • 739 Ratings
🗓️ 31 October 2023
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Today we look at how to be faster and stronger in the water. Good news, there's a lot of great ideas here to make that happen. Bad news, actions speak louder than words. Many of us like the "idea" of getting faster, but will we put in the work. Lucy Charles swam 50k a week to give her a minute or so edge. How much will you swim? We also get into Knowing your flaws so you can work on them. There are so many moving parts in swimming, but often the best solution is just to figure out your weaknesses and adjust. And finally, are you "slicing" through the water or actually doing work with your hand and forearm? We take a deep look at what this really means and how to stop from spinning out in the water.
Topics:
- The worst Halloween candy
- Swimming is usually the hardest to master
- Something has to click
- The plastic ball drill
- Actions speak louder than words
- No swim background?
- We like the "idea" of getting faster
- You have to invest the time
- Are you fit enough for your turnover?
- Higher intensity/shorter period of time
- Know your flaws and body type
- Running analogy to swimming
- Cycling to swimming
- Walking to swimming
- Swimming is about taking things away
- Fitness vs. Technique adjustments
- Slicing through the water
- Just because your arm is in the water . . .
- Im working hard to go nowhere
- Spatula analogy
- It's about pushing water back
- Spinning out in the water
Coaching Inquiries
Mike Tarrolly - CrushingIron@gmail.com
Robbie Bruce - C26Coach@gmail.com
All Episodes from our How To Not Suck At Swimming Series:
1- Episode 12
2 - Episode 20
3 - Episode 125
4 - Episode 126
5 - Episode 236
6 - Episode 365
7 - Episode 484
8 - Episode 537
9 - Episode 657
10- Episode 658
11- Episode 683
12 - Episode 727
13 - Episode 728
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Oh, yeah. Good morning, coach. I am pumped up. |
| 0:22.0 | You had a big swim camp this weekend and snowing here. |
| 0:26.5 | Perfect time to talk about swimming. |
| 0:28.7 | Yeah. |
| 0:29.0 | And I mean, it's my favorite day of the year. |
| 0:31.1 | It's Halloween, folks. |
| 0:32.2 | Oh, that's right. |
| 0:32.7 | Yeah, make it rain on your front porch. |
| 0:36.3 | Dish out those milk duds and sourpatch kids and rollo's junior |
| 0:40.8 | mince for everybody it's going to be a good day yeah it's kind of a great day the day october |
| 0:47.1 | 31st the year 2023 welcome board everybody you listen to the crushing iron podcast this is episode |
| 0:53.8 | 727 it sure is and uh |
| 0:57.5 | since i don't plan on having any trick or treaters out here because like i said earlier we have |
| 1:01.8 | no street lights whatsoever it's very dark out here i have two apple cider donuts in case somebody |
| 1:08.4 | shows up well i got a question asking. |
| 1:11.8 | I'm not sure how this works in, you know, the lake-type communities. |
| 1:17.9 | Could you get some people at the back door via kayak? |
| 1:20.8 | Oh, that would be outstanding. |
| 1:22.1 | Are some of those trolling motor pontoon type things? |
| 1:25.5 | Yeah, I mean, I feel like that. |
| 1:26.9 | I mean, obviously with the picture you sent me, it looks very fresh. There's snow on the i mean i feel like that i mean obviously with the picture you |
| 1:28.3 | send me it's a little on the beach i would love it if somebody showed up in a kayak i would give |
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