Swimming

Swimming is the most demanding discipline for technique in triathlon - technique is a limiting factor here. If you did not actively swim as a child, there is a lot of effort needed to do. That's why triathletes need to learn swim technique first before starting real endurance training. Unless gross mistakes in technique are eliminated, training focused on swimming performance makes no sense. Fortunately, in triathlon, fitness skills are transferred between disciplines, and the endurance gained in running and cycling training is largely used in swimming. However, it will not be possible without the right technique. If you are a complete beginner, you can try to start breaststroke. But if you're serious about triathlon, sooner or later it's going to be a crawl. It can be started at any age, I am an example. I started learning crawl after forty. In the process of learning the technique, it is good to start from the very beginning, even if you feel that you have already learned something yourself. We will gradually practice the individual parts of the movement and then put them together. We will take a video recording from different angles and views and then analyze it together. When teaching swimming technique, we will gradually focus on the position and buoyancy of the body, on the work of the upper and lower limbs, we will check the correctness of breathing and overall interaction, and finally on the overall movement. We will gradually increase efficiency and your sense of water. Most of the teaching and subsequent training takes place in the pool, but we also get to swim in open water and neoprene, which is the specifics of triathlon. Swimming technique is especially difficult for triathletes because they do not have such flexibility in the joints (running, cycling). In addition, there is swimming in open water, which has its own specifics (poor visibility, physical contact, guarding the track - buoys)