Posts about swim training and workouts
If you are blind like me, swimming has always been a little challenging because I couldn’t see the pace clock, other swimmers, the practice on the board. Since I’ve started to do more stuff in open water with my team in the last 10 years, it’s…well…game over out there. The…
In the Monday practice, we’re going to work on some pacing exercises based off the 100 pace derived from our T-30’s or T-20’s last week, or the T-pace. When working with the T-pace, you’ll adjust the pace for the distance of the swim. If you hold a 1:30 pace for…
The results from the T-30 and T-20 swims that we did on Tuesday September 22nd and Wednesday September 23rd are can be pulled from the CBD T-Swim Historical Results file on our website. You can find general background on the set on the Team News page of our website and…
I get this question a million times: “My goggles leak when I swim. What are the right size goggles for me?” There are a ton of goggles out there in the market of all different shapes and sizes. You want to find a pair that fit into your eye sockets…
In the Tuesday night 7:30pm practice at UIC and the Wednesday morning 6-7am and 7-8am practices at Moody, we’ll be running the T-30 and T-20 sets, the 30 and 20 minute swims for distance, respectively. Our Level 3’s will be swimming for 30 minutes; our Level 2’s and 1’s will…
I got this email from a client this week: “Hey John, thanks for quick tip. I purchased the Tempo Trainer from the CBD site. Should have it soon. I have been reading some of the documentation on the TT…but still not sure about what my ideal stroke rate is.” Here’s…
Finis Swimmer Snorkel We want to encourage all of our swimmers to purchase a Swimmer Snorkel this fall and bring it to practice on a regular basis. We’ve found in our teaching that the snorkel is an incredible tool for working on swimming mechanics without being encumbered by the…
One of the most common comments we get from our clients who know how to swim but just can’t turn it into a fitness activity is: “I get so out of breath! I can run a marathon, but I can’t do two lengths of the pool.” The swimming literature commonly…
There are a bunch of great things about doing lake swims: swimming outside, swimming for long distances, enjoying the cool water to beat the heat. The problem with lake swims is that we lose the walls and the pace clock that help us determine whether we are holding pace and…
