Take a look at the brand new Swim For Tri site. The old site had some good content from the award-winning SFT coaches, but this new design both looks cool and is far easier to navigate. What Dan Bullock and his team have done is put all the swim content you could ever wish for [...]
Swimming: video analysis
A key part of the training camp this weekend was swim video analysis. Despite my timed swim test performances (1500m, 4x400m, 20x100m) improving substantially of late – principally due to the squad-based fitness sessions I’ve been attending – I knew my technique was pretty raw. I took five 1-on-1 lessons with Swim for Tri in [...]
Notes from the pool
In search of lost time, or Swim for Tri session three I made a mistake: after session two with Swim for Tri, I didn’t get back in the pool for four weeks. Big mistake. Okay, I ran the London Marathon, I recovered from the London Marathon, I moved house, I was busy with work, I [...]
Swim for Tri: Session Two
FRONT CRAWL DRILLS After session one with Swim for Tri last week, I’d headed to Highbury pool over the weekend brimming with confidence, the desire to perfect my bilateral technique, and expecting instant improvement. But things didn’t quite go to plan: breathing to the left felt awkward again; oxygen debt was quick to occur; the comfort I’d felt towards [...]
Swim for tri
On Monday I had my first swimming lesson in twenty years. My parents threw me in the deep end aged six – well, they kindly took my brother and me to the local pool every weekend! – and despite spending more time in the changing rooms than the pool in session one, I quickly grew to love swimming. [...]
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