Episode 305: Swim Secrets – A Conversation With Purple Patch Swim Coach John Stevens
Purple Patch Podcast
Matt Dixon
4.8 • 647 Ratings
🗓️ 13 March 2024
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Swimming can be a frustrating sport, especially for those who don't start early. With 90% of your body weight displaced, it's like competing in the weightlessness of space. Moreover, finding pool times, commuting, and improving technical skills can be quite challenging, especially for amateur triathletes.
However, as a triathlete, swim training is essential for overall improvement. You need to minimize the time spent swimming to go faster while limiting physiological costs and fatigue. Swimming also has a cross-pollination effect on other sports, such as improved cardiovascular conditioning.
If you're time-starved and already have much on your plate, how do you get the returns on your effort to optimize swim readiness and splits? To help you unlock your swim potential, we invited Purple Patch Swim Coach John Stevens to the podcast. John is a world expert in open water swim coaching and technique, a former Division 1 swimmer, and has worked with many leading swimmers in open water and triathlon racing.
During their conversation, John and Matt discuss five essential things every time-starved amateur should do to improve their swimming speed. They also talk about common mistakes, the best equipment for improving skills, the significance of strength training, the proper application of pool technique in open-water swimming, and several other topics.
Matt and John reveal tips to successfully incorporate swim training into the context of your life and reap the rewards while uncomplicating your swim training experience.
Episode Timestamps
00:00 - 05:18 - Welcome and Episode Introduction
05:25 - 12:50 - Matt's News-ings
13:04 - 15:56 - Word of the Week
16:03 - 1:00:23 - The Meat and Potatoes - Episode 305: Swim Secrets – A Conversation With Purple Patch Swim Coach John Stevens
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Matt Dixon and welcome to the Purple Patch podcast. |
| 0:06.0 | The mission of Purple Patch is to empower and educate every human being to reach their athletic potential. |
| 0:12.0 | Through the lens of athletic potential, you reach your human potential. |
| 0:16.0 | The purpose of this podcast is to help time-starved people everywhere in a great sport into life. |
| 0:25.0 | Folks today we're talking about swimming and let me give you the headline news here. Just |
| 0:30.5 | taking part in inside tracker and having a look inside at your biometrics, it's not going to lead |
| 0:36.6 | to you being a faster swimmer. |
| 0:39.2 | That's the truth of it. |
| 0:41.0 | But you know one thing it will do? |
| 0:43.8 | It will ensure that you're focusing on the right things so that you can bring your very |
| 0:50.3 | best self to your efforts in becoming a better swimmer. |
| 0:57.1 | In other words, your health, your energy, |
| 1:02.6 | your adaptations that you yield from the hard work that you put in. With my guest today, John Stevens, we've both gone through and leveraged inside trackers so that we can get specific to our |
| 1:07.5 | demands. We leverage it with our athletes at Purple Patch, and you can leverage it |
| 1:11.9 | too. You don't need to be a Purple Patch athlete. All you need to do is head toinsidracker.com |
| 1:17.2 | slash Purple Patch. That's InsideTracker.com slash Purple Patch. And you can use this sneaky code, |
| 1:23.6 | Purple Patch Pro 20. It's a great process. You're getting peer reviewed, researched, education, |
| 1:29.7 | as well as recommendations and your own personal action plan in everything around longevity, |
| 1:34.7 | health and performance. So why don't you do like me? Get involved. Cheers. Enjoy the show. |
| 1:43.5 | And welcome to the Purple Patch podcast, as ever, your host Matt Dixon, and today we're talking about swimming. |
| 1:55.1 | Just ain't right, folks. |
| 1:57.7 | A serious source of frustration for so many of you. |
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