MasteringFlow wrote:
Hopefully, the thread will live up to the title… What's ONE thing that's made the biggest difference in helping you improve your swimming, that you would recommend someone else try? What improved?
My tip is specific to my triathlon experience: rather than trying to become a faster swimmer, I switched to trying to become more relaxed and economical at the same speeds, especially in open water at Ironman distances. Adding extended intervals, focusing on calmness and low heart rate while maintaining forward progress, lots of open-water swimming (if you're training for IM) in similar conditions and at the sort of pace and cadence you expect for race day.