How to swim affects how fast you swim

Learning how to swim properly will help you decrease your speed time. Most triathletes know how to swim and they’re pretty fast at it. What many triathletes don’t realize is that if they focus on their swim technique as part of their triathlon training, they could get even faster with it. 

If you compare a triathlete’s style with an Olympic swimmer’s style, you usually discern a difference in their technique. Triathletes are all about power, getting from one spot to another in as fast possible. The Olympian swimmer, although he or she will probably get to the other end of the pool faster, will appear as if he or she is swimming with less effort.

What they’re doing is they’ve reduced their motions so that they have the most effective swimming style. Instead of splashing around and wobbling on their way to the finish line, Olympian swimmers are disciplined in their swimming method. Make learning how to swim efficiently be part of your training. Seek instruction from a swim coach who can critically assess your swimming technique.

Besides your time spent in a pool training, make sure you get some open-water time as part of your training. This is because the open water poses its own challenges that you can’t simulate in a pool setting. Current, temperature, wind, uneven bottom, less visual cues to keep you in a straight line, and the disconcerting feeling that you’ll sink if you don’t swim (i.e. the pools edge isn’t 10 feet away) are all issues that you can only address by spending time swimming in the open-water.

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