Episode 18: How Neglecting Your Swim Hurts Your Overall Triathlon Performance
I have heard it a million times: a triathlete tells me “I swam and swam but it never changed my time, so I just stopped swimming.” I really feel for this athlete, since they are clearly frustrated, but there’s a better way to train for triathlon. In this show we walk through:
What goes into effective endurance training in the first place
How neglecting your swim hurts your overall triathlon performance
How you should actually train to improve your swim performances
Swim Smooth Coaches Directory for Video Swim Analysis: https://www.swimsmooth.com/find-a-coach
RSVP for Chris’ lecture about what holds swimmers back: https://bendtriathlonclub.com/event-coaching
Episode 14: Basic Training | How Noob Gains Happen (and then Stop Happening)
Remember what it was like when you had just set out upon your endurance journey? At first everything felt incredibly hard, but after a short amount of consistent training things started to feel easier. Those, our friends, were your “Noob Gains,” or the improvements that happened in the first months (or years) of this new habit.
Today on The Infirmary we explain how and why Noob Gains happen and offer some guidance for those who are in this very fun and satisfying period of training. We also talk about ways to avoid the pitfalls of this leg on the path to faster, happier, and healthier athletics. We close the episode with a warning around the ways unscrupulous companies try to take advantage of you while you’re living your Noob Gains life.
If you’re already an experienced athlete, please think about passing this episode along to someone who has just begun, since doing so might save them from injury, burnout, or worse.