And I'll agree to disagree with you on that most AG triathletes have a problem of applying power, not power itself.

WHen you're talking most triathletes, even thing big buffed ones, they have a power generation problem. They can't maintain that power over the race distance. Sure, they also have some signficant power application problems, but it pales in comparison to their lack of power, period.

Just go on this very forum and look at all the self-videos for swim critique. There are literally zero videos where you look at it, and can say, "woah - you're quite powerful in the water but you're thrashing it all away.' Whereas every single video shown has some swimmer who looks like they are almost on a leisure cruise, gently paddling away, with no urgency, and no frequency, none of them hitting cadences of 100+.

Take those so called-powerful folks who can't swim fast at all you claim to know - I challenge you to have them maintain 100 spm for a full hour. I dont even care if they are fugly, awful, energy-wasting strokes - they just have to have a reasonable range of motion (more than just a 6 inch doggy paddle). Literally none of them will close to surviving it - I'll bet none of them will even hit the 15 minute mark. Power isn't just being able to pull a huge load for 5 strokes - it is holding force over time, same as cycling with a higher cadence.

What I will say, though is that there are a few super talented folks who can pull hard, and pull well, on little training. They are rare, but so are 7+ foot tall NBA players who do in fact exist. Klehner, do us a favor and tell us about your swim background and how long it took for you to get faster than 1:20/100, and please focus on any youth training secrets, as well as the technical secrets and breakthroughs you made early that should be eminently transferable to the typical AGer to get 75% of the speed you have.