Ok this is for fun so don’t take it too serious

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Never do sets longer than 200 yards. Your stroke breaks down

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You have to practice to race it. Definitely so long repeats and swims 400 to up to race distance


Any good swimmer can do all 4 strokes even if you are a triathlete you should practice them all

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You only have to do freestyle. Don’t bother with the learning other 3 strokes




Kicking uses your largest muscles. And most swims are wetsuit legal so do minimal kicking even during practice

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Any good swimmer, including triathletes should train kicking all the time



Spend most of your limited ltime running and biking That is the best bang for the buck

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If you don’t put significant time into swimming it will slow down your bike and run in a race so you need to really focus on swimming. It will save you time in a race



Pool swimming is the same as swimming in a triathlon. There is no such thing as triathlon swimming


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There is a significant difference between open water/triathlon swimming VS pool swimming. Technique and style of swimming is different



Distance per stroke is most important

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Open water has chop you need to practice a faster swim stroke don’t worry much about DPS



NEVER do your next set until you can use optimum form

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You have to learn to swim fatigued. Your stroke will break down don’t worry too much about it




Don’t do long swims until your form is very good. You will just be ingraining bad technique

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Just pile on the yardage you will figure out the best technique for you



It is very important to have proper rotation to get a powerful pull

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Lucy Charles Barkley barely rotates. It’s not important she has very high cadence which would be impossible with the rotation other coaches tell you to have



Lol. So add your own for fun

Very very timely topic for me as it’s been frustrating as hell! Most recently:

- start exhaling as soon as your face is in the water

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- hold the air in your lungs and then exhale rapidly just before you take the next breath.

Love this one

Actually just heard you have to expel the air in your lungs fast and only half breaths Full lungs cause your chest to rise and your legs to drop

Drills are vital to a good technique, don't skip them

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If your time is limited you should spend it swimming, not doing drills

Too much muscle and too lean to swim fast, need more body fat
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muscle/fat thing has nothing to do with who swims fast. Technique and swim-specific

USRPT has very little relevance to any swimming events beyond the short races in the 25m pool.

Certainly the high-speed interval training is a part of some training, but that stuff should already be in your plan anyway, just not to the exclusion of volume and aerobic and threshold training.

Ultimtately, as a coach, you should be asking what is the minimum amount of training needed for the athlete to achieve peak performance?

I hope this helps,

Tim