Gerry Rodrigues: Is He The Best Triathlon Swim Coach In The World? - Triathlon Taren Podcast

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Taren Gesell

Podcast, Triathlon, Ironman, Health & Fitness, Training, Gesell, Triathletes, Sports, Taren

4.7 • 843 Ratings

🗓️ 18 December 2017

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Gerry Rodrigues is the head coach and Founder of Tower 26, he has coached pro triathletes like Lionel Sanders, Holly Lawrence, Jesse Thomas, Matt Russell, and Olympian Mark Spitz. Gerry has participated on numerous Trinidad national teams, he still holds national Masters titles, several world Masters titles, and national and world Masters records. He has also competed in the 28.5 mile swim around Manhattan Island which is discussed in the interview. Lionel Sanders says that Gerry is "the best swim coach around", in this interview we talk to Gerry about how he takes very complicated aspects of triathlon swimming and communicates them very easily. Topics discussed in the interview: Tower 26 Get Race Ready Podcast Tower 26 website

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0:53.9	him potentially the best guest we've ever had.
0:56.2	Mm-hmm.
0:57.1	Yeah, Kim or Kim, as he called her, as we were signing off, is a very big fan of Jerry.
1:04.2	And in this interview, we talk about a lot of very tactical things with swimming.
1:11.7	Like what I, in doing the research on Jerry over the past week, what I really liked about
1:16.1	him and the shows in today's interview is that he's able to break down the complications
1:23.5	of swimming with something as simple as like do vertical kicking and think about how tall you feel.
1:30.1	And little tiny nuggets like that are basically in this hour that we chatted with him. He just
1:35.2	nailed it right out of the park. I feel anybody who listens to this will walk away with something
1:39.7	they can actually use. And a chuckle. And a chuckle. He's just a great guy.
1:44.7	Good guy.
1:45.3	Big fan.
1:46.2	Anything else?
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