- There's one simple trick
that Pat added to my swim stroke that like
(snaps fingers)
So it's like constant motion that there's never a point.
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(groaning)
I am legitimately afraid of what's going
to go on inside this pool, butterflies.
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Thousand meter time trial today.
Let's get warmed up.
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Okay, so the other day I told you
that there's one simple trick
that Pat added to my swim stroke that like.
(snaps fingers)
Instantly took off three to four seconds per 50 meters
and somewhere around 15 seconds per 300 meters.
It was awesome.
We did the thousand meter time trial right now.
When I did it previously while we were in Kona,
I did a thousand short course yards in 15:35,
which translates to like because I'm 90 meters short
and there's more push offs,
somewhere around 17 minutes, yeah,
17 minutes on a thousand meter long course,
which is what we swim all the time,
so that's what we're going by.
Today we did a thousand meters long course yards,
16:10, two and a half months later,
chopped off about 50 seconds.
Now here's how we did it.
Yes, I've been doing a bunch of drills
to work on my technique.
Yes, I'm focusing on like a longer, stretched out core
so that I slide better in the water
and I'm less like this,
but that trick that Pat added to my stroke
was speeding up the stroke,
speeding up the timing of the stroke,
and it's not just like taking more strokes faster.
Here's how it is.
And what he said I was doing is because
we've done so much long distance, steady swimming,
doing that marathon swim back in June,
I was coming out and I was out,
and then as my arm was recovering,
this arm was totally paused,
so as that's happening, I've got nothing
actually pushing me forward
and I'm decelerating the whole time
this arm is catching up right until about there.
So that's like eons in swim terms.
What he changed was the stroke timing
that he wanted me to start that catch
basically as I'm like back here,
so I'm in and it's more of a windmill action
as opposed to out, out, out,
so it's like constant motion, that there's never a point
in my stroke that I'm not helping myself move forward.
Now I had a really tough time doing this instantly
on Friday, but here's how I figured out how to do it.
I wanted to be able to feel that catch right away
and have that help of pushing myself forward,
so what I did was to take aspects of the stroke
out of the equation, I did snorkel, then pole.
Snorkel allows me to not have to turn my head.
Pole allows me to not have to worry
about my hips and legs sinking,
band allows me to not go like this.
And then I put little freestyle paddles on,
so I'm not really adding a lot of resistance.
I'm just adding feel, and then I focus on starting
that catch basically the second I go into the water.
Out, in, out, in, out, in,
and it worked.
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So there you go, trainiacs.
We are very guilty of that pause,
that glide out front as triathletes
because we swim so long.
We don't have to swim 50 meters hard,
but swimming 50 meters hard helps us swim 1,000 meters hard,
1,500 meters hard, half IRONMANs hard.
Speaking of fast swimmers, look at this guy over here.
Awful.