SO, YOU SAY YOU'RE NOT A GOOD SWIMMER?

Every now and then we hear triathletes say: Oh I'm not a good swimmer, so I save my energy/strength for bike and run, or something along those lines. The irony is that you actually spend more energy, if your technique is poor. It does not matter, if you feel or if you think you're saving energy, in reality it takes more efforts and more energy from you to cover the distance with a so-so technique. With proper swimming technique, however, you could learn to swim faster and move easier in the water. In most of the cases, there is always plenty of room for improvement.

Let's see, who taught you to swim? It is almost a guarantee that virtually everyone gets introduced to water by either a parent or an elementary level swim instructor at preschool. The emphasis of such instruction is on keeping the head above water, not on swimming technique.

Few get any type of technique specific swim training. And interestingly, many easily accept that they are just not good at swimming. This sounds especially crazy coming from triathletes. Considering the nature of the sport, and triathletes' willingness to go the distance and put everything on the line and train for months and months... the absence of same level willingness to perfect technique, i.e. "ways one would have to move for miles and miles" in a triathlon is rather puzzling. While you're dreaming of "soaring through the sky" it would be very helpful, if you practiced how to flap your wings and focused on quality of your movement rather than an enormous amount of training.

Whether you had technique specific training in swimming or not, if at this point your swimming is not at the level you'd hoped it would be, it's time you updated your swimming technique to the one that will allow you to achieve better results. Learn to swim with the Pose Method.

Article by Dr. Nicholas Romanov
Composed by L. Romanov