Triathlon Swimming

Common Freestyle Mistakes in Swimming:

1. Don't look FW >> look to bottom of pool
2. Don't swim flat >> rotate with each stroke
3. Don't bend knees >> keep legs (almost) straight
4. Don't pull crooked (e.g fingers pointing pool side) >> finger tips downwards
5. Don't breath late >> breathe early

Swimming Efficiency - Body Position and Stroke: (by Mike Doan - usat coach and Andy Potts - champion)

• top athletes train free style almost exclusively
• maintain stable horizontal position: keep eyes focused on a downward angle
• body symmetry is key! left and right side of body should mirror one another

Elements of stroke:

1. pull and recovery

• rotate hips (life golf or baseball player)
• pull phase is really a matter of anchoring or stabilizing your hand and upper arm at point of entry or catch phase of stroke and leveraging yourself forward by holding the water and driving your hip into the front of your stroke
• elbow higher than wrist and fingertips down on recovery

2. kick

• helps maintain proper body position
• propultion generated in both up and down beat of kick
• tremendous source of power but not without a cost: kicking burns huge amounts of oxygen in blood
• be selective when you throw your kick into the race (fisrt 200/300 meters and last portion of race)

3. breathing

• keep head rotation minimal, rotating naturally with stroke
• breath frequently and both sides if possible (oxygen deficit is a recipe for disaster)

The Swim Arm Cycle - Swimming and Triathlon:

The Smoothest Swimming Technique In The World? Jono Van Hazel

"Chicken technik"...

Sighting:

Kick económico (parte 8 de um curso com dicas de natação de triatlo):

LAST BUT NOT LEAST:O Breath correctly! Focus on exhale and rotation