Fitness and Technique in Triathlon Swimming with Rory Buck | EP#70

That Triathlon Show

Mikael Eriksson

Health, Swimming, Endurancesports, Run, Cycling, Health & Fitness, Fitness, Ironman, Swim, Bike, Sports, Running, Sportscience, Triathlon

4.9 • 596 Ratings

🗓️ 26 October 2017

⏱️ 49 minutes

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How do you structure your swim training as a triathlete to improve your fitness, technique, and performance? Rory Buck, retired international level swimmer and experienced triathlon swim coach gives his recipe for triathlon swim training. IN THIS EPISODE YOU'LL LEARN ABOUT: How many times per week should you swim? How much should you focus on technique training and how much on fitness? What kind of sets should you use to improve fitness? How do you structure the technique part of your workouts and don't waste your time with mindless drill training? LISTENER QUESTIONS: If you have questions that you want me to answer on the show or off the show (in an email), send me your question via email or Twitter (contact information below). SHOWNOTES: www.thattriathlonshow.com LINKS AND RESOURCES: The Fundamentals of Triathlon Swimming SwimFast - Rory's website Emmet Hines' blog 3 foundational elements that will make you swim faster with Gerry Rodrigues | EP#3 Training Zones part 1: Swimming | EP#27 Open water swimming: training and racing tips with coach Brenton Ford | EP#18 RATE AND REVIEW: If you enjoy the show, please help me out by subscribing, rating and reviewing: www.scientifictriathlon.com/rate/ Send feedback, questions or just wanna chat? CONTACT me at mikael@scientifictriathlon.com or connect on Twitter - my handle is @SciTriat.

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0:00.0	My experience has taught me that the magic number is three times a week.
0:04.6	I get all of my athletes to commit to swimming at least three times a week.
0:09.4	Some do more, but none of them do less.
0:14.4	That Traathlon's show, episode 17. 70.
0:35.6	Hey, what's up everybody and welcome back to another episode of That Triathlon show, the podcast presented by scientific triathlon.com.
0:39.0	I'm your host Michael and on today's episode I talk with Rory Buck,
0:43.5	a former international level swimmer turned swimming coach
0:46.3	focusing exclusively on triathletes.
0:49.6	And the main idea with this interview is to really give you a framework
0:53.7	complete with specific examples for
0:56.1	how you should be structuring your swim training as a triathlete on a program and a workout level.
1:03.3	So some of the key questions that we go into are how often should you swim, how much should
1:08.5	you focus on technique training and how much on fitness training
1:11.6	and what kind of sets and drills would you use to improve technique and fitness as mentioned
1:18.2	above? And we'll also talk about how these things may change depending on the time of year
1:24.0	and your current swimming ability. So without any further ado, let's dive right
1:29.3	into the interview with Rory Buck. Today's guest on that triathlon show is Rory Buck,
1:38.6	a swimming coach specifically for triathletes. He has his own swimming career in as he's a athletic background and
1:46.1	has been swimming and coaching for a long time already coming from South Africa initially, but
1:52.0	nowadays residing in Dubai and swimming at the collegiate level in the States. So Rory, hi,
1:59.3	welcome to that triathlon show. thanks very much michael i appreciate
2:03.0	you having me so do you mind taking a quick minute to fill in some gaps that i probably left
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