Beginner Triathlete - 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.

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.

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.

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

Here’s what triathletes can learn from this swimming drill

What does it mean to hold your body ideally for swimming?

The essentials of stroke count with respect to freestyle swimming.

The benefits of an unconventional freestyle arm entry are: minimal wasted time, improved leverage, and reduced shoulder stress.

Key equipment for improving on the swim

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

Improving Your Swim

What to do with your fingers and hands while swimming.

The third phase of swimming pillars (podcast)

Beginner, Intermediate and Advanced