So we ditch that no pain, no gain, and we emphasize the quality over the quantity.

That Traffleum Show, episode 24.

Hello everybody and welcome back to another episode of That Triathlon Show, the podcast presented by Scientific Triathlon.com.

As always, I'm your host, Michael, and on today's episode, we have an interview with Kevin Koskala about swim training for triathletes.

So swimming is a topic that we've covered before in several episodes, including we've had Carlin Pipes and Brenton Ford on and Jerry Rodriguez.

And yeah, especially the one of the most downloaded

episodes to date it's episode number three so I know that swimming is a topic that you guys

have desired to listen to a lot so yeah happy to oblige and bring you another view on swimming

from Kevin this time and Kevin is the founder of tri-swingcoach

dot com. He was an all-American swimmer in college and has coached master swimmers and triathletes

for years. And his approach to swim training incorporates drills and technique training

and combined with video analysis and by that he helps

triathletes get more out of their stroke and be more fluid in the water to have a better

triathlon swim. So things that we discuss on today's interview include how to structure your

triathlon swim training to improve your performance and how to periodize it, how make the big picture work and then we go into actually we start with talking about the problems with the traditional approach to swim training as Kevin calls it the no pain and no gain approach and the most common technique flaws triathletes have and how you can correct them.

So that's something that I think that many of you will find very, very useful.

And we talk a little bit as well about open water swimming and swim specific strength training.

So there's a lot to cover, so I don't want to make this intro drag on much longer.

I'll just make it a really, really quick teaser that after the interview,

some of you have requested that I give you small little nuggets of the latest triathlon

research and science that has come out.

So I will do that after the interview.

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