Swim Squad Podcast

Swimming By Feel: Eight Lessons For A Smoother Swim

How to stay controlled and relaxed during a long swim session, increase pace gradually, and focus on improving your technique at the same time.
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Strength Training For Our Athletes

Some key principles around strength training for our athletes.
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VO2 Max in Swimming: Why Our Swim Squads Are Embracing It This Winter

Our Swim Squad is taking some time over the Autumn and Winter to improve swim technique and then swim fast. Improving our V02 Max ceiling, improving our efficiency, raising our sustainable swim pace. That's our goal. This episode explores why this is important and how we are going about it. 
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From 1.50/100m to 57 minutes: Dan's Ironman Swim Journey

How did one of our swimmers go from 1.50/100m in the pool to a 57 minute Ironman swim? Let's listen and find out.
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Coniston Swim: Eight Lessons in Joy and Mastery

Lessons from Jo's 5.25 mile Coniston swim that we can all apply. 

Swim Squad: Fast Times, Smart Work, and What's Possible

A coaching philosophy that transforms triathlon swimming from a challenge to a competitive advantage. It showcases numerous athlete success stories. It also emphasises purposeful quality over quantity.  

The Power of Time on Performance

I've been thinking lately about the power of time.
When you look back and see how far you have come as an athlete, it's incredible. The months and years of training stack up quietly in the background, and then when you look up, suddenly you're capable of things you once thought impossible.

The Off Season: Smarter Triathlon Training

Make the off season focused, setting you up for success next season.

The Rhythm of Training: Effort, Consistency, and Perspective

The podcast discusses effective training - viewing training sessions as part of a bigger picture.

The Ironman Swim: Project Sub-60

An athlete approached me, inspired by a fellow Swim Squad swimmer wanting to go from a 1.10 Ironman swim to a sub-60 swim. Here is how we're going to do it.