To really excel in swimming you need to practice swimming efficiently. A lot of inexperienced swimmers are under the impression that the faster you move your arms and harder you kick your legs, the faster you will go. This is in fact far from true.
The truth is that swimming more efficiently is the only way you’re going to increase your speed in swimming. Swimming efficiently means that you use your large back muscles instead of your shoulders and arms to propel yourself as well as use your entire body in …

One thing to remember to have a comfortable swim is to try to position yourself well within your wave right from the start. If you know you are a very weak swimmer then try to hang back and let the gung-ho swimmer-turned-triathletes battle it out at the front!
Again, probably one of the biggest reasons people shy away from triathlons is the swim. But, honestly, there are a lot of other triathletes in your wave who are just as weary about swimming as you are!
When you’re standing at the start see …

One of the first things people “say” when I tell them I’m a triathlete is “oooo” with that painful look on their face as if they just saw an olympic athlete sprint up to do a triple somersault over the horse only to miss the spring board and well..eat it! I immediately need to reassure them in saying that its NOT that bad!!
Really, for those of you reading this who are considering a triathlon for the first time, there are MANY forms and distances of triathlons! I assume that the …