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

Scientific Traathlon.com.

I'm your host Michael and this episode is beginner tip 23 where we will discuss open water swim training first a related episode

beginner tip number three troubleshooting swim technique and swim training go back and listen to that

if you haven't already there are some things that are very relevant in that episode for this one as well so do that i'll link to it

in the episode description as well basically the exact same principles summarized quickly apply and

they are to always be training with structure and purpose and train with various different speeds from

very slow to very fast and to train both technique and skills not as well as training fitness by

doing hard intervals and not just choosing one or the other.

And this is something that a lot of triathletes get wrong.

So they basically train without structure and purpose, train only at one same speed.

And they may claim that they have only one speed.

They train only technique or skills training or fitness training but they do not do both.

So that is a no-no in the pool as well as in the open water. You should definitely do the

things that I mentioned first and not the mistakes that I mentioned second. But I won't talk too much about the ones that are completely new to swimming and maybe

even intimidated and very uncomfortable in the open water.

That's a bit of a different episode and we have talked about that in the past on that

triathlon show.

So I'll also link to the page where I have collected

all swimming episodes and that is linked to in the episode description. It is scientificriathlon

dot com forward slash triathlon dash swimming if you want to go there directly. There you can

scroll down to some open water swimming interviews I've done where we

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