Beginner Triathlete - Swim articles

These workouts are all designed for beginners and range in length from 400m to 1200m – hopefully providing some useful workouts until you are able to tackle the 2000m+ workouts.

A three month program designed to help beginning swimmers improve technique for a sprint distance race.

This installment of the BT Swim Series will focus on breathing. Before you can swim fast, you must learn how to control your breathing so that easy swimming does not leave you gasping after one lap.

Being a good pool swimmer doesn't necessarily mean you'll be fine on race day. Make sure you've trained for race conditions.

I went from 15 minutes to 9 minutes on 500m, this is how.

Triathlon Swim Training for Beginners

What to do with your fingers and hands while swimming.

I'm VERY negatively buoyant. It's so bad that if I exhale I will sink like a rock - I've literally sat down at the bottom of a 14 ft. pool numerous times. What can I do?

If you are a beginner triathlete training for your first triathlon, this article will show you three key swim workouts that you can use for your triathlon swim training.

The last month of this series will be building you to a 750m continuous swim and workouts of up to 1200 total meters.

The essentials of stroke count with respect to freestyle swimming.

The goal of this section is to give others ideas on workouts for specific purposes.

This is a 3 step program on learning how to do flip turns. Also discussed is the importance of using flip turns during lap swimming.

Increasing your energy efficiency even modestly -- from, say, 3% to 4% -- can translate into a 33% improvement in your swimming.

The most common question I hear in the triathlete world about the mysteries of swimming efficiently usually involves something with breathing.