Hey, what's up everybody and welcome back to That Triathlon Show, the podcast presented by

Scientific Triathlon.com.

I'm your host, Michael, and this episode is Beginer Tip 15, where I'll talk about the seven

best investments beginner triathletes should make.

I encourage you to listen to beginner tip 13 as well alongside

this one. That was about the worst investments that you can make. And in general, before any

sort of investment in triathlon that you do, reference it against these two episodes.

And if you're investing in something other than these best investments

before you've ticked each of them off the list, then you're not really doing yourself any

favors when it comes to maximizing how fast you can improve. All right. So let's start with number one,

swimming lessons. Unless you are a swimmer, it is likely that this is an area where you have a lot of improvements

to make by learning the right technique, learning the right way to train, and all sorts of

things, getting video analysis so that you can see yourself swimming and actually see

from outside what it looks like

because that's something that is incredibly difficult to do without getting video analysis.

So that is number one.

I would highly recommend you get one-on-one swim lessons or very small group lessons

where either you get individual Face time with the instructor and that

you get video analysis done as part of that. Number two is getting a triathlon coach.

And if you're a beginner, then in an ideal word, then this could be somebody who is local to

you who you could also get those swim lessons from and even better

also bike and run sessions that would be a great great thing if that's not possible then you can

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