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That Triathlon Show

Swim Types and Fault Fixers with Swim Smooth's Paul Newsome | EP#188

That Triathlon Show

Mikael Eriksson

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

4.9596 Ratings

🗓️ 1 July 2019

⏱️ 103 minutes

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Summary

Paul Newsome coaches thousands of triathletes and open water swimmers every year through his company Swim Smooth with its local squad in Perth, through international courses and clinics, through the global Swim Smooth coaching network and indirectly through the Swim Smooth blog and podcast. In this episode we discuss the Swim Types system and how to correct and improve the stroke of each Swim Type.   IN THIS EPISODE YOU'LL LEARN ABOUT: -Taming the Arnie -Boosting the Bambino -Inspiring the Kicktastic -Curing the Overglider -Supporting the Swinger -Motivating the Smooth   SHOWNOTES: https://scientifictriathlon.com/tts188/   THAT TRIATHLON SHOW HOMEPAGE: www.thattriathlonshow.com   SPONSORS: Precision Hydration - One-size doesn't fit all when it comes to hydration. Take Precision Hydration's FREE sweat test and learn how you should hydrate. Use the discount code THATTRIATHLONSHOW and get your first box for free!   ROKA - The finest triathlon wetsuits, apparel, equipment, and eyewear on the planet. Trusted by Javier Gómez, Gwen Jorgensen, Flora Duffy, Mario Mola, Lucy Charles and others. Get 20% off your entire order with the discount code TTS.   LINKS AND RESOURCES: Swim training structure the Swim Smooth way with Paul Newsome (part 1) | EP#132 Swim training structure the Swim Smooth way with Paul Newsome (part 2) | EP#133 All previous swimming-related episodes on That Triathlon Show Should your hydration strategy change as you get older? - Precision Hydration blog   RATE AND REVIEW: If you enjoy the show, please help me out by subscribing, rating and reviewing: www.scientifictriathlon.com/rate/   CONTACT: Want to send feedback, questions or just chat? Email me at mikael@scientifictriathlon.com or connect on Twitter - my handle is @SciTriat.

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0:00.0

So there's nothing more powerful than saying to somebody, you're doing it right, feel it, feel what it feels like to be doing that right, tune into the muscle memory of that, and now let's do it wrong.

0:10.9

And when you get them to go back to doing it wrong, in an instant, they can feel exactly why they've come to you in the first place to help them improve their stroke.

0:18.3

They can feel it straight away.

0:22.6

That Trevelovenon So, 188.

0:44.0

Hey, what's up, everybody, and welcome back to another episode of That Traathlon Show, the podcast presented by Scientific Triathlon.com.

0:47.5

I'm your host Michael, and on today's episode, I interview Paul Newsom, who is the head coach

0:51.9

and founder of Swim's Move, which I'm sure many of you will

0:55.7

be familiar with already, especially since I interviewed Paul in a two-part episode back in

1:00.9

episodes 132 to 133, and I'll link to those in the show notes and episode description, of course,

1:07.2

so we can go and have a listen to those as well we could honestly have made this

1:13.0

interview two into a two-part episode because we go on for quite a long time but i think it's a good

1:18.5

thing because paul really does go in depth on the swim types system that he has identified

1:24.9

and in that system you'll hear about what the descriptions for each swim type is

1:30.9

and you might recognize yourself immediately in that description.

1:34.4

But the best part then is that Paul goes on to discuss the stroke correction and improvement process for each swim type

1:41.2

so that you can take some notes or just go to the show notes of course

1:44.7

and learn what you should do with your given particular swim type we'll try to the interview

1:51.4

after thanking our sponsors first we have precision hydration and they have a great blog post

1:57.9

that i want to mention and actually link to. It's called Should Your

2:01.6

Hydration Strategy Change as you get older. And essentially the Cliff Notes version of the post

2:07.2

is that as you age, your sensation of first is diminished. You tend to lose more water through

2:12.9

urine and you have less water on board to start with. So dehydration is a much greater risk once you're older

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