Beginner Triathlon Swimming Workouts
Dear Friend,
I was doing a natural movement-type workout this morning and I’ve been working on my balance lately. Improving balance helps in so many areas of sports and life. In order to do some of the balance practice I was doing, I had to be 100% focused on what I was doing. This is what I love about practicing this within a workout- it requires that I not let my mind wander!
Focus will be required in any discipline. Swimming is of course no exception. And just as when I was working on my balance today on land, and making little improvements with each practice, doing drills in the water and making improvements to your stroke is no different!
Check out this month’s workout below. It will involve keeping focused on each drill or stroke aspect as you swim. This will likely put you into a “zone” of sorts, where you are not thinking about work or dinner or bills- which is I think the beautiful thing about triathlon- it allows us to get the benefits of meditation without having to sit still. 🙂
Enjoy,
Kevin
“Most people have no idea of the giant capacity we can immediately command when we focus all of our resources on mastering a single area of our lives.”
-Tony Robbins
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It will be a chance to start your year off right in the swim…and get to the next level with Olympic-caliber instruction!
I hope your season or off-season is going well, and I look forward to seeing you soon in California!
Workout of the Month: Focus!
Cruise= an interval you can make around 8 100’s on with relative ease, 5-10 seconds rest between each one.
Free Golf= do a 50 and count your strokes as well as get your time. Add these 2 numbers together to get your score, and attempt to lower that score with each successive 50.
Warm Up: 300 Free, focus by 50:
50 arm extension
50 hip rotation
50 high elbow pull
Repeat!
Drill: 4×150’s
50 kick on your side
50 shark fin drill
50 swim
Rest= :15
Main:
2×50’s on Cruise + :05
Focus on stroke economy
2×100’s on Cruise
Focus on building your stroke rate
2×200’s on Cruise
Focus on high elbow recovery +
high elbow pull, make interval
2×100’s on Cruise +:05
Focus on keeping an even kick
2×50’s on Cruise +:10
Stretch it out
Free Golf:
6×50’s focus on hip rotation & pull to lower your “score”
Warm Down:
4×50’s Ascend- start out at 80% on #1, and slow it down
from there
Total: 2400 Yards or Meters
Sincerely,
Kevin Koskella
Tri Swim Coach