#839 – How To Not Suck At Swimming #15

Crushing Iron Triathlon Podcast

Mike Tarrolly

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

4.7 • 724 Ratings

🗓️ 18 March 2025

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Today, we look at how you can be faster by being more efficient. We breakdown using your arms as levers and look at how and where to enter the water. We talk about the power of using paddles in the RIGHT way. We get into why you have limited mobility, why you have a stiff neck and why your shoulder hurts. We’ll give you the swimming like “a house” analogy and tell you what kind of house you should be. We also talk about the misconception of swimming wide and how to understand what that means for your best and most efficient/powerful stroke. We talk about turnover vs. being more measured and methodical. And we explain why training for a fast 100 is a totally different sport than swimming Ironman.

Topics:

Using your arms as levers in the correct way
Shoulder pain
Stiff necks
Limited mobility
Open armpits
Swimming like a house
Sweeping under the body vs. wide
Don’t be too wide
Path of least resistance
Walking up an escalator
The S-Curve
North and South vs. East and West
Tall and skinny
How to engage lats
Running strides vs. swimming strokes
Too narrow, too wide, just right
Understanding paddles and how to use them right
The point of skulling
Finding the right stroke for you
Stroke appropriate for your distance
Understanding different speeds in the water
Are you committing to being the same speed?
High turnover vs. measured and methodical
The best, most powerful, and longest stroke
Faster by being more efficient
Try something that makes you feel weird

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0:00.0	All right.
0:03.0	Welcome to spring break. March Madness. Everything. Get your workouts in early.
0:27.3	Whatever. Yeah. Your workouts. Your don't work.
0:32.3	Get snipped. Whatever are we going to do. Yeah. It's a big snip week. All the guys go in and get snipped.
0:39.5	I think I got two on the table this week going in and getting snipped because they're going to be. Yeah, it's a big, it's a big snip week, right? All the guys go in and get snipped. I think I got two on the table this week.
0:42.5	Going in and getting snip because they're going to be laid up during March madness. It is that week again. Today is March 18th, the year. It's
0:48.3	2025. Welcome to board, everybody. You're listening to the Crushing Iron Podcast. This is
0:52.8	episode 839. it is closer at
0:58.0	850 and 850 feels a really close to 1,000 839 seems like a distant like a far distant
1:03.5	decade away but 850 sounds like just around the corner yeah we're still about a 13 seed here
1:09.0	yeah we're saying about 13 see listen there's always a 13 seed that. Yeah, we see about a 13.
1:11.4	Listen, there's always a 13 seed that makes it to the Leader Suite 16.
1:15.3	But yeah, hopefully today after this podcast, we're your number one seed.
1:20.2	But no, we'll finish up with a little swimming talk that we got into late last week.
1:24.1	But yes, it's March Madness.
1:25.6	Good luck to everyone.
1:26.8	And with your alma maters, for those of us who, you know, didn't graduate
1:31.2	college of the team you rooted for growing up.
1:33.7	It's a fun week. Everybody gets into it and
1:36.3	the, before we get into swimming, it was, I was listening to somebody
1:40.4	talk about how difficult it is to pick the perfect bracket.
1:46.7	And, you know, you always see like all the chances, you know, like, it's like one and,
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