- Morning, Trainiacs.
Large swim day today and on the heels of the ever popular,
we're talking, I gotta say 40, 50 million views.
Not quite.
Of what runners can expect when they get into triathlon.
Here is what swimmers can expect
when they get into triathlon.
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So we have a very sizeable swim
on the other side of this whiteboard, really big.
I told Coach Jerry from Tower 26
that I wouldn't share the workouts,
but I'll share that's how many meters I've gotta do.
That'll take awhile.
So swimmers getting into triathlon,
if you have a really good solid background in swimming,
you are ahead of 95 percent of other triathletes.
That is the biggest impediment to most triathletes
getting into the sport and getting good,
but if you have a background in swimming,
we're talking Laurence Delisle, Lauren Brandon,
Lucy Charles, Josh Hamburger,
all of these former swimmers get into triathlon,
and very quickly, they're doing quite well.
They're expecting what you can expect
if you're a former swimmer is that, you're going to progress
a lot quicker at the start than a lot of people,
because swimming transfers over really well to cycling.
Swimming fitness transfers really well to running.
It's got that lengthening aspect to the stroke
that running doesn't.
Running and cycling don't necessarily apply to swimming,
but swimming applies really well to those two,
because you're gonna have a really big engine already.
You're gonna have overcome the biggest obstacle in the sport
so your floor of the low end of your fitness and the low end
of how you'll do in triathlon is gonna be higher.
Cleaning the pool deck.
Now, as far as training goes, expect to have...
Let's pick this up after the swim, okay?
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The end of that swim was a perfect segue
into this next point.
That was a 900 meter, just steady effort at the end,
staring at the black line, leading into the next point,
when swimmers get into triathlon, a whole new lease on life.
You don't have to just stare at a black line,
you can talk to people, you can do other sports,
you can work on strength.
Black line is the devil.
Now, related to that, from what I've heard,
ex-swimmers say that it's nice to be able to talk to people
and have that tighter sense of community.
In swimming, your face is in the water,
you can't hear shirt, but in triathlon,
apparently it's really rejuvenating and invigorating
to have people clapping for you and you can hear it,
and you get that awesome sense of community,
because you are more in touch with the people around you.
Now, granted, triathletes are a little more A type,
a little more direct, a little less goofy.
You guys are silly billies.
Triathletes, we can be lame.
Lighten up, triathletes.
Trainiacs, cool.
Most triathletes can be lame.
Alright, let's get onto some of the training aspects,
shall we?
Okay, so here's where it gets
a little less rosy for the swimmer.
Now, when you go from swimming, which is non-weightbearing,
to particularly running, which is very weightbearing,
and to a lesser extent, cycling,
you're going to encounter a heck of a lot more injuries
than you experienced in swimming.
Hence, you gotta spend a ton of time and effort
focused on maintenance, on strengthening, on, well,
you've got really strong cores as swimmers,
but there's just a lot more niggles and crap that pops up.
It's not all laddy da like in swimming
where you can just swim and swim and swim and swim
and swim and swim and as long as you've got good technique,
odds are pretty good you're not gonna get injured.
Most people get injured as triathletes.
Thank goodness we're not runners.
Basically, this entire corner,
actually this entire pain cavern
is dedicated to injury prevention.
Now, as a swimmer, you ate a lot, and you might have
a water bottle on deck with a little bit of electrolytes,
but as a triathlete, you have to
worry about all kinds of things.
You gotta have gels, you gotta have chews.
This is actually the lightest
that this drawer has ever been.
You gotta have bars.
When you are going from one sport into another
and having to be ready for that second sport calorically,
you need to focus on nutrition way more
than you ever did with swimming, 'cause with swimming,
you could just bury yourself in a workout
and when the workout's done, workout's done.
In the case of triathlon however,
you gotta fuel as if you're trying to make it through
an entire day of effort, because you are.
So a really big focus on nutrition
that you wouldn't have had while you were swimming.
I gotta stock up.
Now, when it comes to running, for one reason or another,
we don't see a huge number of swimmers
becoming amazing runners at the pro levels of triathlon.
In the age group ranks, your engine, and just your
physical fitness is a much bigger aspect of it,
so I'm sure that most of you,
when you're going from swimming to triathlon
are gonna do quite well in running relative to the field,
but we don't see a ton of those swimmers
just nailing it in the pro ranks.
Besides Lucy Charles, so there might be an aspect
of swimmers just not adapting to running as quickly.
Granted, like I said, you got huge engines,
so you already got the base of fitness to become
a good runner, you just need to work on the technique.
Now, something that you're really gonna have to get used to
is the amount of gear that you need to buy in triathlon.
You need gear and gear and gear and gear and gear.
Now, in swimming, you can get away with
a pool bag of equipment that maybe
cost you 100 to 150 dollars,
slap a speedo or a one piece on ya, you're good, set to go,
you don't need much else.
What does a kick board cost, seven bucks worth of foam?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, maybe call a banker
and just let them know that you're going into triathlon
and then they'll be like, "Let's get
the triathlon banking forms out."
We're a bunch of suckers, but one thing that's a big draw
to triathlon that makes it fantastic
is that it's a lifestyle.
You don't hear a lot of swimmers swimming
to their ripe old age with their best friends being swimmers
and going on swimming holidays and just swimming
and swimming and making it a part of their social circle
and really their overall lifestyle.
Triathlon, however, you can make it your family vacations,
you can make it your morning group of friends,
you can make it the group that you go
for coffee with on the weekend.
If you do get injured and burnt out in one sport,
move to the other two.
There's always something that you can work on,
and what I find is that, because it's such a cool community,
people end up doing it for their entire life.
It's a very fun time.
So, with that said, thank you for watching.
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Later, Trainiacs.