A Pleasure To Coach

I’ve just come out of a 1-1 swim session with a former competitive swimmer-turned triathlete-turned long distance swimmer who had traveled a fair few miles to swim tonight

I’m glad she made the journey as it was a pleasure to be on the poolside. A graceful, smooth stroke doesn’t do her technique justice!

We worked on a few things to improve body position slightly, whilst also working on stroke rate and a little more leg control. This swimmer also wants to improve her speed, so we also worked on accelerating the pull (push phase) a little which resulted in some fast swimming towards the end of the session.

A bit of work on these tweaks to her stroke, plus some good variety in her training, will see her fly next year!