Swimming

What is a Triathlon?

A triathlon is a 3-stage competition which includes three continuous enduring sports. The first one usually starts with swimming and then cycling and lastly a 400m marathon race.

A rotator cuff injury can remove a swimmer from the water for an extended period of time. Tears, strains and dislocation take a long time to heal. While you are rehabilitating your shoulder, the rest of your body might be missing your regular workouts. Here are some ideas to keep you swimming, without aggravating your shoulder.

Open Water Preparation

Swimming in open water is difficult than swimming in a pool for obvious reasons. It’s deep, Dangerous and pretty different but with these workouts you’ll get proper preparation and training.

Guidelines For Triathlon Training

Before you start some serious triathlon training, you need to establish the basic principles and assess your own personal level of fitness as well as your strengths and weaknesses. Here are some general guidelines to get you started.

Strength Training For Triathletes

Thirty minutes is a mere 2 percent of your day, but that’s all it takes for successful triathlon strength training. Endurance athletes who don’t incorporate regular strength training into their workouts ultimately compromise their ability to produce their best muscular force.

Swimming Equipments

One of the great things about swimming is that it does not require a lot of equipment and what it does require is generally low cost. This guide will help you determine what you need, and choose the best equipment for you.
What you’ll require are Swimsuits, Rash Sun Guards, Swim caps, Goggles, Kickboards, Paddles, Pull buoy, Swim fins and a Nose clip.

Swimming Workouts

This workout is simple in the number of sets, but has clear focus on sprinting repeats. It is an intense workout aimed at the advanced swimmer and can be adjusted to fit any swimming skill and level.

Swimming Tips And Techniques

Ensure that your head is aligned with your spine. Keep your back straight and aligned with your head. This is accomplished by making sure that you are looking at the bottom of the pool, not ahead of you! By looking anywhere but down you are making your hips drop and you will have to kick that much harder to keep them up.

Swimming Strokes

When learning to swim crawl it’s best to think about the stroke as a whole movement instead of individual parts. This will help develop a full stroke instead of trying to learn individual parts and tie them all together.

Swimming for Weightloss

This is a Tabata-inspired workout that is short on volume, but high on intensity. The goal during the main set is to go full blast on the first rep and maintain that intensity. There’s not a ton of meters in this set, but make no mistake, if you do it properly (at full intensity), you will create a skyrocketing metabolic reaction in your body.