Let's say for like an Ironman time, they might actually drop their pace per 100 by 10 seconds or more, 10 or 15 seconds per 100.

That Traflon Show, episode 46. Hello, what's up everybody. Welcome back to another episode of That Traflon

Show, the podcast presented by Scientific Triathlon.com.

As always, I'm your host, Michael, and today's episode is about a tool that can be used by

either time-crunched or pool-restricted athletes or just performance-driven athletes in general

that want to give their swim training a new dimension

and take it up a notch. So my guest today is Rob Sleemaker, who is the founder of Vasa, which is a

company that pioneered the market for swim training benches and changed dryland swim training forever

way back when in the 80s when Rob first invented the VASA swim trainer.

So VASA trainers, that's actually not the official product name, but they are commonly called VASA

trainers. They have a couple of different

versions they've been used by for example the US Olympic swimming squads for all the Olympics since

1996 in Atlanta and they are now and have been for many years already making making headway

in to triathletes training regimes as well.

So this is an exciting one.

We talk a bit about how, for example, the swim erg, which is a training bench with a power meter,

allows you to train in precise power zones just like you would in cycling,

and how this allows you to improve your fitness at a rapid rate. And another important benefit is that it may actually be

easier to improve your technique and learn exact movement patterns for swimming in the dry comfort of your living room on a vasa trainer compared

to especially maybe if you are finding it a bit intimidating to get into the pool if you're a

complete beginner getting somebody to in that case maybe getting somebody to actually show

you the exact movement patterns on the bench would be beneficial.

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