Beginner Triathlete - articles

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

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.

Improving Your Swim

What to do with your fingers and hands while swimming.

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

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 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?

Learn how to prepare and avoid the cold water freak-out

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.

Do you do that same freestyle stroke over and over? Why triathletes can benefit from swimming other strokes besides freestyle.

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.

The first month we will be pressing the "reset" button. We'll start the month with some drill-focused sets and endurance building.

Triathlon Swim Training for Beginners

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.