Expect a non-linear progression in your swim speed As the days become warmer and longer, it’s generally a good time to start increasing your overall training volume and intensity. With that said, it’s valuable to understand how an increase in overall training load will affect your swimming – often relating to a decline in [...]
It is important to mix up your swim workouts in order to get the variety of speed, endurance and power work that is required for our demanding sport. This month we provide three powerful swim workouts one is pretty easy, one is speedy and the third focuses on endurance. Easier Workout Warm-up 300 easy [...]
BE PREPARED FOR THE OPEN WATER If you’re planning on racing a triathlon for the first time, it’s important to realize the difference of pool versus open water swimming. The similarities are obvious and subtle, while their differences can have a serious impact on the overall outcome of your race. Here’s some examples of such [...]
Incorporate one of these workouts into your program each week as your key swim workout: The Quickie (Sprint Workout) Warmup: 500 Freestyle Main Set: 8 x 50–Slow/medium pace (1 minute interval) 8 x 50–Medium/fast (1 minute interval) 8 x 100–Freestyle (descending) 8 x 100–75 fast, rest 10 seconds, then 25 sprint 8 x 50–25 medium, rest [...]
“How to pick up free speed two weeks out from race-day.” 1. Buy new goggles (same model you normally use) & swim in them once or twice prior to the race 2. Spit is the best, most perfect anti-fog product EVER, it’s also readily available on race morning 3. Only sprint at the start [...]
The focus for February is to continue building the foundation of your endurance base and to begin to build specific strength for swim, bike and run. This month we really want you to focus on core stability in addition to beginning to build strength in specific areas. We include suggested core stability and strength exercises [...]
On Strength Training For triathletes in the off-season, I believe it’s wise to allocate consistent effort in the weight room to develop strength and core conditioning. Such purpose is not to increase the size of your muscles (unless there is a reason to counter muscle atrophy for some individuals), but to improve the timing, coordination [...]
Free Styling – Guidelines for Swim Training Often, I think there are parallels between triathlon and family. In my mind, I think of the three sports in triathlon as siblings who can either get along really nicely,…or fight each other tooth and nail. I consider the swim the youngest of family members, and quite [...]
The Ironman 70.3 Calgary Team has prepared a training program to prepare you to successfully complete a half Ironman on August 2nd, 2009. The program formally begins January 1st, 2009. In preparing this program the team has spoken with a number of coaches and athletes that specialize in iron distance and other endurance events including [...]
This is a compilation of a number of previous posts… Compression clothing….. There is a lot of talk about it. Does it improve performance? Does it improve recovery? or Does it just look dumb? When I spoke to Torbjørn Sindballe at Interbike in Las Vegas in September 2007, he said that he had everything dialed in [...]
