- Morning, Trainiacs.
I don't know if you've noticed,
but on Instagram, our new pal, Laurence Delisle,
pro triathlete from Matt Dixon's Purple Patch crew,
has been sharing her swim tips.
She's an awesome swimmer.
Today, we're gonna dissect her tips about the catch.
Right after I get myself an orange kickboard.
There better be an orange kickboard.
Orange kickboard!
(energetic dance music)
Good swim.
Just a mile in 38 minutes.
Lots of kick, lots of little drills, lots of work.
As recommended by Laurence Delisle.
So, Laurence is a new pro triathlete.
And she used to be an NCAA All-American swimmer,
qualifying for multiple Olympic trials.
I think in Canada and the US.
She had an injury in her last year
of eligibility in college.
And now, she's moved into triathlon.
And she, on her Instagram page,
is doing a ton of tutorial videos
about the things that she knows in swimming.
And the biggest thing that she says she sees
new triathlete swimmers struggling with, is a good catch.
And if you have been around for a while,
you know that I have a shameful straight-arm catch.
I'm doing this, whereas it should be
that.
And she recommends three things that explain it really well.
Number one is thinking about
enter, elbow up, pull back with your lats.
Whereas, a lot of people, me included,
think about pulling back and dipping the hand down first.
Focusing on the elbow, instead.
So enter, elbow up before you even think about pulling back.
And then pull back with your lats.
I just did that and I found that
practicing it with a snorkel really helped.
And then gradually building into a full-speed stroke.
The second thing that she recommends,
is going on a diving board where you've got room
underneath you.
And practicing that out, elbow up, pull back with your lats.
And then the third thing, is that...
What are they called?
Explosive?
Explosive somethings?
Basically, bounding off the bottom of the pool,
and thinking about catching water.
And if you think about that, you're not gonna go out here
to push yourself up.
You're gonna go in here, where everything's
nice and powerful.
And it's going to hopefully show you where that position is
that you can push up from.
I'll link into Laurence's profile below,
that you can go check it out.
Follow her, go check out that last Instagram video post.
And mention that I sent you.
She's really nice.
Send her a message, she'll probably message back.
Now, big day.
I always say it's a big day, but today's a big, fun day.
We have a podcast interview with Steve Fleck.
Hey, NTK.
- [Kim] Hi.
- [Taren] You haven't seen her in a while.
No Triathlon Kim, my wife, co-host.
- [Kim] Oh, hello.
Hey!
- [Taren] What?
Steve Fleck, welcome to the podcast, Steve.
Thank you for being on.
How you doing?
- [Kim] And then what kind of coffee grounds do you use,
as we wrap up this coffee discussion and get into
the meat of this. - I'm not done.
I could talk for an hour about coffee.
- [Kim] What kind of coffee do you drink?
Yes.
Taren likes a medium roast.
- [Taren] Jeez, the look on her face.
Holy smokes, Steve, we're gonna have to hit pause here.
(laughter)
And are you saying, literally the first triathlon?
Like, the first swim-bike-run?
Or the first series?
Or like, the first event?
The one?
Wow, I know they didn't have internet back then.
How do you even fact check this?
Like, do they have those scrolls that you see
in like, Indiana Jones movies?
Really had nothing to do with the triathlon,
for that question.
- [Kim] No, we just--
- [Taren] But we're very much dog people.
Fun fact, that I don't know if I've ever talked about.
I had to introduce Kim to my parents
as the woman who didn't like dogs.
Thank you for spending some time with us here.
When we were originally chatting over email there,
when you just kinda went over the history
of what you've done.
I'm like, oh man, this is gonna be like opening up
a triathlon encyclopedia.
(sighs)
That was a very big, busy day, Trainiacs.
So big day, because we had a whole bunch of client work
that was supposed to happen.
Didn't actually happen.
But we're trying to jam a whole bunch of work
for the social media ad agency that I do.
A little boutique-y kind of shop.
Into basically all of this week, so that I can block out
a whole bunch of time for Triathlon Taren.
Because the big stuff that I'm working on right now,
is we are coming out with a series of books.
Triathlon books.
Not paper books; e-books.
Basically like big guides, 'cause what I'm finding is,
a lot of the stuff that we talk about here,
people don't know where to find it.
They'll ask a question like, hey can you do a video on this?
Like, yeah, we did that.
Or they're questioning like, how to piece things together.
How to actually apply what I talk about in these videos.
So what we started thinking, is why not come out with a book
that, start to finish, picks out all of the best stuff
that I talk about every single day.
And actually condenses it into a like,
how to do triathlon for beginners kind of book.
And in addition to that, we're talking
about something on nutrition.
Like, how to eat.
Kind of a cookbook-y kind of thing, but a lot more fun.
And then workout logs, so that instead of listening to me
and saying, oh okay, here are all these principles
that Taren talks about.
How do I actually then go and do it?
You'll be able to do it.
Now, I'm not gonna talk a whole heck of a lot
about the details.
Because we're writing the books right now.
And, in the writing, the concept is still forming as we go.
But, expect within the next few months,
we'll probably come out with one.
And then maybe in the following months, another one.
We have three in the works at the moment.
So yeah, Trainiacs, big things are always going on here.
You can always count on the videos.
You can always count on the Triathlon Taren Podcast.
The interview one that we just did comes out once a week.
And the Triathlon Trainee Ask Podcasts,
where I answer you triathlon questions five days a week.
Today's question comes to you from...
That's what I say in every podcast, so go check it out.
Supper time.
Later, Trainiacs.
See ya.