#838 – Swim Like A Swimmer

Crushing Iron Triathlon Podcast

Mike Tarrolly

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

4.7 • 724 Ratings

🗓️ 13 March 2025

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Today is a little rant about swimming. We look at a few easy ways for you to improve your stroke, body position, and economy in the water. It it really as simple as being a better breather? What about head position? Are you in survival mode while in the water or calmly going about your business. Today is about efficient swimming without hesitation. Relaxed momentum and getting the most out of your stroke.

Topics:

Rap Chat
Icy plunges
Swim temps
Head position
How to breathe right
Exhaling
Do you only have one pace?
Tens or relaxed
Putting your face in the water
Bad body position
Lower back pain on the bike?
Relaxing
Easing survival instincts
Swimming downhill
Stiff swimming
Relaxing in the water
Stroke hesitation
Inefficiency
Momentum
Think like you’re a swimmer

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0:00.0	All right.
0:04.0	All right. here we go.
0:22.2	Here we go.
0:22.9	It's a big, let you start rapping.
0:27.0	Here we go.
0:28.4	It's like, hang on.
0:29.6	Yes, we are ready to rock today.
0:31.7	I did a little dance warm up, so I think I'm in the mood.
0:35.4	You ever heard of Sugar Hill Gang?
0:38.3	Yes, or Sugar Hill Gang?
0:39.7	Yeah, they had that Rapper's Delight was their big hit,
0:42.2	but I had on Apache this morning,
0:44.3	which was one of their...
0:46.8	Deep in their catalog.
0:49.9	Yeah, when you got going with like,
0:51.5	here we go, here we go, I pictured you, like,
0:53.5	doing like a rap, but like with like a jumpsuit on with no undershirt.
0:56.8	Yeah, that was a, is it Chris Cross?
0:58.2	Here we go.
0:58.8	Yeah.
0:59.1	It's like, well, that's like this last weekend at Haven's hockey tournament, the night, Saturday night, they everybody got together and order pizza and like a conference room the hotel and all the boys
1:11.3	like 20 of them they just play knee hockey and they just mess around and and anyway they all
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