MAD MANATEE Mentor Group (TriAya & lmscozz)--CLOSED! (Page 25)

Good job on the kick. There's a lot of disagreement about the kicking in triathlon. The TI coaches promote a slower 4 beat kick, I believe and really focus on distance per stroke and body position. I know as far as body position, the leg propulsion will help but pressing your chest down and keeping the head down also helps raise your mid and lower body. I'm not the best swimmer but I do notice  difference when I keep my head down and try to as they say, "look toward your toes."

One of the best kicking drills I"ve heard of is to stay vertical in the water and kick with your legs underneath you. Obviously you have to be in deep enough water to make this work, but I'm starting to encorporate that into my swim drills. When you get really good at that, you can try raising your arms above your head while kicking vertically.

As far as the breathing thing, again disagreement among coaches, but it is recommended you can breath bilaterally so you can spot on either side of you. I know gordo (Gordon Byrne) really likes the every 3rd stroke bilateral. He's said that show you can be relaxed in the water if you can do that comfortably. I can share his exact words once I'm back to my computer. I'm using DH's because we're away for the weekend. (Yes, and I'm on BT).

Let us know how it's going with it all.

Lynn

This MAD MANATEE participated at an indoor tri event this morning.  It is a series of three events, so one down two to go.  Returning to my beginning because four years ago this is the first event where I was a participant.  Nice to know nothing has changed; fop swimming, mop bike and bop running.  Consistency is everything!  Now I get a recovery week and will be registering for a marathon in next couple of weeks.  Everyone have good week training.

This MAD MANATEE participated at an indoor tri event this morning.  It is a series of three events, so one down two to go.  Returning to my beginning because four years ago this is the first event where I was a participant.  Nice to know nothing has changed; fop swimming, mop bike and bop running.  Consistency is everything!  Now I get a recovery week and will be registering for a marathon in next couple of weeks.  Everyone have good week training.

This MAD MANATEE participated at an indoor tri event this morning.  It is a series of three events, so one down two to go.  Returning to my beginning because four years ago this is the first event where I was a participant.  Nice to know nothing has changed; fop swimming, mop bike and bop running.  Consistency is everything!  Now I get a recovery week and will be registering for a marathon in next couple of weeks.  Everyone have good week training.

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INAUGURAL MAD MANATEE HEALTH PICKLE CHALLENGE

Gotten yourself into a health pickle? Want to eat more pickles? Just in it for fun?

- Challenge runs from NOW (or if you want to backdate a few days or to your last significant value, fine) until MARCH 31
- Pick a goal type that has a quantifiable STARTING VALUE (you can set it to zero if you don't want to reveal the number). Possibilities/examples include weight, measurements (ex: mine is hip+waist circumference starting at 150cm), time/100yd swim, OR let's say a number that you want to increase--say your longest run now is 5 miles and you want to get to 10 miles by then.
- Identify your END VALUE (ex: mine is get hip+waist circ. to 136cm)
- Check in every week with your new numbers or change in numbers

I have, of course, set up a spreadsheet for this and it happens to be Sheet 2 of our existing Goals Spreadsheet:

https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0An7ZkKfHG1L1dHphaHc0aFczX0FkOEdhaERqWG0wa1E&hl=en&authkey=CJGo6JsM#gid=1

Goals:
-Run at least 15 mpw (starting average is 6mpw)

-continue yoga 2x/week (average now is 2x/week since 1/14, just want to continue)

-No microwaved foods (an experiment I am trying to see if I feel healthier eating conventionally heated foods.  I was reading about how microwaves take away the healthy enzymes and vitamins.) Right now I average 2-3 microwaved foods/day.