drill to practise arm stroking. “Place a leg float between your legs and practise single-arm strokes,” he says. “Extend one arm straight out and use the other to push through the water. Try to maintain only a slight bend in the arm as you swim. The arm
- and sometimes even in the pool when you're training. However, he's right: making friends with water could be the difference between loving every minute of a triathlon and metaphorically holding your breath until you exit the water.Triathletes from a non-swimming
WEEK ONE WEEK TWO WEEK THREE WEEK FOUR Mon SWIM Warm-up: 6 x 25m + 3 x 50m. Main: 8 x 50m Stroke Count with 30 seconds rest between efforts, then 200m continuous relaxed. Cool-down: 4 x 50m concentrating on technique
Q. How do I deal with a niggling calf injury?A. An injury that won't settle can be deeply annoying. When the calf is injured your swim, run and bike training can be affected, which will have a major impact on overall fitness if you lose training
the following drill to practise arm stroking. "Place a leg float between your legs and practise single-arm strokes," he says. "Extend one arm straight out and use the other to push through the water. Try to maintain only a slight bend in the arm as you swim
London Triathlon, this training programme lasts 12 weeks. You don't need to have any triathlon experience.Advanced – This schedule is for you if you train six or seven days per week; you already do some distance swimming; you race race regularly and train
the run portion of these workouts, for every two minutes of hard effort, beginners should walk for one minute, gradually increasing the length of the hard efforts.You've got...20 minutesYou should: Perform an 'envelope run'This drill run builds
to Train, at www.coachcarl.comREFINE YOUR MOTOR SKILLS...For the swim you practise pulls and kicks. For the run you do strides and form drills. But for the bike, practising specific skills is rare, and that's a mistake, says Cantrell, who suggests
. Fiona Ford, a professional triathlete, coach and founder of coaching service Triathlon Europe, says February is the ideal time to work on your weaknesses. "For many triathletes swimming presents the biggest challenge and winter is the perfect time
in a straight line when you have no lines to follow in open water. Be prepared to be bumped around a bit, stay calm and keep swimming."Richard Hobson"Practise the water-polo drill - swimming freestyle but holding your face out of the water - before you
