Race Ready Replay - Solutions and Strategies for Triathlon Swim Success

Purple Patch Podcast

Matt Dixon

Humanpotential, Nutrition, Education, Empower, Fitness, Executive, Coach, Strengthtraining, Purplepatch, Sleep, Cycling, Performance, Running, Recovery, Health & Fitness, Ironman, Swimming, Timemanagement, Triathlon, Meditation, Yoga

4.8 • 647 Ratings

🗓️ 4 April 2022

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

The swim leg of any triathlon is one that elicits stress and fear. You’re entering into murky water with the blinding sun in your eyes. There are choppy waves that are seemingly predestined to make their way into your lungs. All the while, you’re getting very physical with hundreds of your closest friends. Swim anxiety is real, especially in open water swimming.

Today, Coach Matt Dixon and Coach John Stevens diffuse some of the stress around triathlon swimming and frame strategies to help you approach the swim more effectively.

In this deep dive on triathlon swimming, they will:

Help Establish a Positive Mindset Around Swimming
Benefits of Swim Band Training
Identify Common Sources of Anxiety and Fear
Outline Solutions and Strategies Around Many of Those Sources of Fear and Anxiety Around Swimming

The goal of this episode is to help you build confidence and become empowered when approaching the triathlon swim. Regardless of whether you are a multisport veteran or a complete newbie, we hope to help you develop a toolkit to help alleviate some of the open water swim anxiety that is prevalent at triathlons, IRONMANS, and multisport events.

This is your year of performance and Purple Patch is here to help!

John Stevens comes to Purple Patch with a wealth of athletic and coaching experience. His background is rich in swimming, progressing through high-level high school swimming and then venturing on to become the captain of the University of Miami swim team. John began coaching, first as an assistant in Tucson, AZ, and then two years as an assistant coach at Florida International University. John moved home to Maine in 2010 and coached high school swimming for three years. It was there that he transitioned to competing in triathlons and the emerging sport of SwimRun, with a notable result in 2018 where he and his partner won the San Juan Islands SwimRun, beating out Lance Armstrong and Simon Whitfield. John also won the Ödyssey SwimRun Casco Bay three years in a row. While coaching and developing multi-sport and endurance athletes, John has expanded his reach into both race director roles, as well as leading positions in triathlon and multi-sport camps.

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0:00.0	I'm Matt Dixon and welcome to the Purple Patch podcast. The mission of Purple Patch is to empower and
0:05.8	educate every human being to reach their athletic potential. Through the lens of athletic potential,
0:11.4	you reach your human potential. The purpose of this podcast is to help time-starved people everywhere
0:17.2	integrate sport into life. And welcome to the Purple Patch podcast, as ever, your host
0:24.5	Matt Dixon. And this week, well, we're kicking off race season. And so we're going to go back in time.
0:32.0	This is a special bonus re-release. Yes, over the coming weeks, we we are going to jazz up your life because we will be doing a couple of episodes per week.
0:43.4	And the reason for that is for the triathletes of the listening crew. It's really kicking off into race season.
0:50.2	And because the episodes that we're going to release were so, so popular last year, we thought, you know what, we bring them back as we ramp up into race season, because we hope that
0:58.4	they'll be really helpful.
1:00.9	And this week, where we get going, by pardon the pun, diving into the swim leg.
1:07.2	I'm joined by Purple Patch coach, John Stevens.
1:10.0	He is an exceptional coach, but also with a great
1:13.2	expertise around open water swimming, both in terms of his swim run escapades and of course his
1:19.4	coaching and his Division I swimming experience. Now together, we put our heads together and we went
1:26.1	through to help folks establish a positive
1:29.3	mindset around swimming, identify some of the common sources of anxiety and fear, but then create
1:35.8	the solutions and strategies so that we can dissipate that fear and anxiety.
1:41.0	It's a really, really good listen, especially if you're an adult onset summer.
1:46.4	The goal of the episode is to try and help you build confidence, become empowered.
1:50.5	When you actually target the triathons swim, rather than something to survive in,
1:56.5	we want you to thrive. And so whether you're a multi-sport veteran or a complete newbie, this is all about helping
2:03.4	you deliver a toolkit so that you can alleviate some of the common open water anxiety
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