#728 – How To Not Suck At Swimming - Part 13

Crushing Iron Triathlon Podcast

Mike Tarrolly

Fitness, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 739 Ratings

🗓️ 2 November 2023

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Today we focus on three key parts of swimming: Balance, Body Position, and Leverage.

If things are out of whack, it's a good idea to slow down. Force yourself to move through the stroke in a way that you can master it, then bump up turnover. Swimming is so much about pressure and feel in the water and if your spatula is cutting through rather than creating resistance, things will be out of balance. Are you working against your fitness? Keep the process as simple as possible. Work on one or two things at a time and find that stroke that makes things feel easier… so you can go further and faster.

Topics:

Now is the time
Balance/Body Position
Pressure and Feel
Forcing a slow stroke rate
Following through with pressure
Crossover and balance - mid line
Scissor kick
Legs following/mimicking arms
Moving against yourself
Sculling
Precise and purposeful
Bumping up stroke rate
Sweet spot
Beyonce or Elaine?
Metronome
Body positioning
High vs. low in the water
Head and body
Too deep on catch?
Relax
Kick more?
Drills that are valuable
Trust the stroke and don't be distracted
Become more still
Building fitness over speed
Working against your fitness
Going east and west to go north
Unlock your fitness
Leverage - the key to power
EVF
Shoulder above elbow over wrist
Petting the kitty
The hot stove
High hand
Elbow hits the water first
Shallow strokes
Momentum - leverage- sinking
Fix one or two things at a time
Swimming elevator pitch
Not 25 things at once
Feet and legs - last
Actions speak louder than words

Coaching Inquiries

Mike Tarrolly - CrushingIron@gmail.com

Robbie Bruce - C26Coach@gmail.com

www.c26triathlon.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	back in the captain chairs and back in the captain's chairs and back in the captain chairs.
0:22.2	Back in the captain's chairs. It's November already. Where has the time gone? The year has flown by.
0:29.8	Hope you all survived Halloween like I did. It's November 2nd. The year, it's still 203.
0:36.6	Welcome on board, everybody.
0:39.1	Listen to Crushing Iron Podcast.
0:41.2	This is episode 728.
0:43.0	Yeah.
0:44.7	And how was your Halloween?
0:45.3	You have a good one?
0:47.4	Oh, listen.
0:55.9	It was freezing cold, which was great because it, you know, no, it was like, how quickly can we get from door to door and i got just comfy up i wore yeah i wore two pairs of tights for some pants big jacket
1:02.7	it's 25 degrees sat around rode around the golf cart hayden ran around some friends loaded up on
1:09.1	candy he came home don't come on the table like all kids do.
1:13.7	We set the crap stuff aside, you know, kept the good stuff and then gave away the rest.
1:19.2	But we survived. No school on Wednesday. You know, and then had the question of, hey, can have some candy every 27 minutes on every 27 minutes until the rest of the
1:29.1	day had gone by? And I mean, it's like, because you kids, like, they'll ask for more candy
1:34.2	while you can still see the smashed tootsie roll in between their teeth from 17 minutes
1:39.9	ago that you just caved and gave them because they won't stop asking for the candy.
1:44.5	That's all about the candy.
1:45.4	And then, you know what?
1:47.1	In about two and a half months, you're going to walk in your pantry and we're all going to
1:50.8	the same thing.
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