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2009-07-27 12:55 AM
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Subject: RE: Swimming Question: Less Strokes = Less Energy and Less Speed?
Well, what I thought was a glide was not! As a new swimmer, it is so hard to get an image of how you're swimming. I recommend at least getting someone to film you so you can see yourself and share it with others for feedback. Before I saw this video, I had no idea my arms were moving in slow motion! I also didn't know that I was lifting my head so much.

I like what a few of you have said about just swimming more. It's funny how everything always comes back to that with the sport of triathlon.


2009-07-29 10:59 AM
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newbz - 2009-07-24 7:54 PM i'm prob going to get a lot of flack from the swimmers for this, but the single best thing i could do for my swim tech was....... SWIM MORE the more time i spent in the pool the more comfortable i felt, and i was able to see things that were slowing me down, make changes. i am pretty much 100% self taught, stayed away from the TI stuff and just watched good swimmers/talk to them about what i needed to do.


...and hills.  Swim more hills!
2009-07-29 11:12 AM
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actually now that i think about it, it is often the triathletes preaching drills all the time until you get better.
you're right.

swimming more, more often helps a lot.
2009-07-29 12:59 PM
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCGEIgnxpw4 ps - this video is work safe


Honestly that doesn't look bad at all. 

If I was to make a guess I'd say there is a lot of emphasis on being smooth in your stroke and not enough on pulling hard.  Concentrate on pulling through, HARD, on every stroke.  Make sure you pull all the way through - lots of propulsion comes from the last 1/3 of the pull right before you pull your hand out of the water.  This will give you a glide, increase cadence, and help get you faster.  Once pulling hard becomes easier buy paddles.   In the offseason do weight training on triceps, shoulders and lats.

It does mean that your workouts will hurt more - embrace the pain.  Results will come. 
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