Swimming is a sport that can be extremely technical, and as a result, determining how you can concentrate on improving your triathlon swimming capabilities is often difficult. Here are five steps that you should be taking in order to improve your swimming capabilities for an upcoming triathlon. There is no real specific order to these tips, and all five can go a truly long way when it comes to helping you achieve your own personal goals for swimming, regardless of what they are or what your experience level is.
1 – Improve your Master’s swimming in order to improve your triathlon swimming ability. You should move into a slower lane so that you can work on the improvement of your strokes. If you belong to a Master’s team, you should not feel as if you have to keep up with your swimming mates every time you work out because everyone has different swimming goals and you need to work on your own goals rather than everyone else’s.
2 – Improve your swimming habits in order to improve your triathlon swimming ability. One of the most important habits that you can break is to prevent your arms from crossing over. This is one of the most common bad habits that appears in swimmers as their arm crosses over to the other side during the pull. Avoid this by keeping sure that your head is not moving when the rest of your body moves, taking care to pull yourself in a straight line.
3 – Improve your ability to keep the feel in order to improve your triathlon swimming ability. If your toughest sport is swimming, then you need to make sure that you are keeping a feel for the water, getting in the water at least every other day to maintain your awareness of balance within the water.
4 – Improve your lungs and your ability to breathe properly in order to improve your triathlon swimming ability. Make sure that you are mixing in hypoxic training when you are working out. Consider a set of 4×100s breathing with every 3rd, 5th, 7th and 9th stroke by 25, taking a 15 second rest in between each set of 100. Your lungs are going to really thank you when you race and they are properly prepared for the challenges.
5 – Improve your own personal weaknesses in order to improve your triathlon swimming ability. Spend more time working on your own weaknesses than your strengths. If swimming is your weakest sport, spend more time working on it than anything else. This is the best way, above all else, to improve your capabilities in the water.
All five of these tips are simple and straight forward and they really are capable of going a long way when it comes to increasing your capabilities as a swimmer.
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Originally posted 2009-07-21 05:31:39. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
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