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.

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.

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

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

What to do with your fingers and hands while swimming.

Key equipment for improving on the swim

The essentials of stroke count with respect to freestyle 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?

Triathlon Swim Training for Beginners

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.

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

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

This installment of the BT Swim Series will focus on being efficient in the water. Learning how to swim smooth and efficiently is important to becoming a great swimmer.

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.

Top swimmers rotate the core of the body from one side to the other while keeping the head fixed. When you rotate in this way, you move through the water more like a fish, maximizing your efficiency.