Triathlon & Open Water
Pullbuoy for open water swimming: a three-week plan to improve your forward propulsion (part 1)
We have already mentioned the importance of a Pullbuoy (A guide to making the best possible use of your pullbuoy) and how it can help improve both your position in the water …
Triathlon & Open Water
Open water racing: a survival handbook
If you are a reasonably experienced swimmer you will have raced in open water. Perhaps you were even well prepared for the race, you felt good and the race conditions …
Training & Technique
Butterfly: the importance of the leg kick
The butterfly is the most complicated stroke to swim properly, because it requires more stamina, greater flexible strength and better coordination. The first two are more closely interrelated for swimming …
Training & Technique
Freestyle: power is useless without rolling
Level: beginner/intermediate We have already looked at the importance of the right position in the water for proper forward propulsion (Alternate breathing and perfectly balanced freestyle swimming). Coordinating your arms …
Training & Technique
Is there any real link between genetics and performance?
How often have we heard talk about genetics in sport? About how genes inherited from our closest relatives may influence an athlete’s sporting career. In countries that belonged to the …
Training & Technique
What is the real key to training? Making the most of your leg work!
As you will have seen in our previous articles, leg work is a vital part of training. Competitive swimmers vary the amount of leg work they do according to the …
Triathlon & Open Water
TRIATHLON: How to improve your running leg
The most tiring part of a triathlon race is the run, even though it seems to be the least feared by those without a competitive background in any of the …
Triathlon & Open Water
Bike, the 3 factors which can affect your speed!
Bike riding speed is influenced by three factors. Discover these factors and how they can affect your pedaling stroke. 1. Strength. Comparing your workout with that of a friend, you may be …
Training & Technique
Training in a 25 m pool and racing in a 50 m pool?! Here is how you do it!
The short-course pool (25 m) and long-course pool (50 m) are two completely different things. In a perfect world, every club/athlete should have the chance to train in either a …
Training & Technique
The swim speed equation. Find out how to train for it!
(S)peed = (S)troke length X (S)troke rate This is the equation for swim speed and it is the product of two simple factors, stroke length and stroke rate. The former …
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