Not directed at you Jordan but there is a fallacy about doing drills. people seem to think drilling = stroke improvement.

If someone is going to spend that much time drilling, what they should really do is hire a coach to sit on top of them every freaking length they swim, completely rip their stroke apart and put it back together.

But most triathletes don't have that luxury, or they won't take that time to do it.

I went from 29:00 1500m to 23:00 1500m guys in 2 weeks. I've seen other gains like it as well in other people. Sure I/they gained a bit of fitness, but 99% of that was technical improvement. Going from 23;00 to an 18min 1500m person is the fitness aspect. You need both.

What most triathletes seem to do, and this comes from watching them swim in multiple cities, watching them swim at multiple races, reading multiple coach's swim workouts (and I use workouts loosely) and skimming some binder type books, most triathletes do the prescribed drill without knowing why, what it's doing, what is't supposed to do.

If they're going to do that, then they should just go with paddles, bands buoys and force change upon themselves while gaining fitness. It's not an either or, it's a spectrum of both.

All this has probably been said but I didn't bother to read all the posts.

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