Yukh0 wrote:
Hear hear.
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In my experience working with close to 500 triathletes over the past 10 years, most age group triathletes swim about 2-4 hours a week (10,000 yards or less). The bottom line is triathletes do not swim enough for the distances they compete.
Also, people spend too much time at the wall. I swim only three hours per week, but it's nonstop easy with sprints mixed in. That type of work has sped me up to a 1:22 to 1:23 average pace for the whole hour. I end up with 13,000 yards per week in just three hours.
I set a beep timer on my watch to go off every 1:23 and I just swim casually along that pace, looking for changes in technique that speed me up vs. makes me slower at the same effort. If it's faster (beat the beep by the flip turn) I keep it. If it's slower, I drop it. My swim form is dramatically different than when I started doing it years ago and it's now super casual to swim that pace - like chill meditation. I found the stuff that was slowing me down and threw it out, so now I can just glide along and apply effort when I want to, not because I have to.
I dropped a lot of time on my swim pace that way and lots of people could too. Use a beeping pace timer on your watch to find what makes you faster slower, mix in some sprints, and be more time efficient so you get in your volume. It works if you swim a 1:25 pace or a 1:50 pace - it'll help anybody drop time.
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