Part 1: Five key steps to better technique with Karlyn Pipes
It’s “dreamin’ season’ and many triathletes (and masters swimmers) are planning their training strategies to strengthen their swimming weakness while improving stroke technique. Many also need to find a smooth transition from outdoor training to indoor. The upcoming winter months can prove to be difficult just to get to a pool and open water is not an option in most places, like here in Vermont!
Over the past 25 years, thousands of athletes have come to rely on Vasa Swim Trainers and Vasa Swim Ergs to maintain consistent, high quality swim training to supplement or even substitute pool time. While this will increase your stroke power & stamina, athletes can also improve their swimming technique to swim faster. In our “Better Freestyle for Triathletes Swimming Technique” training video series, you will learn the essential techniques, drills and workouts to develop an efficient, powerful Freestyle swim for triathlon open water swims of any distance.
Coach Karlyn Pipes, swim technique guru and world champion masters swimmer teaches the essentials needed to develop a fast & efficient Freestyle swim. In the first five videos of the series (Triathlon Training: How To Improve Your Freestyle Swim Parts 1-5), Coach Pipes shows how to set up your stroke to achieve a high elbow catch, which allows the swimmer to generate more power and efficiency. Consistent high elbow catch is critical for accessing the powerful muscles of the lats and upper back while reducing overload to the shoulders and biceps tendon. Today’s best swim coaches, swimmers, and triathletes master the High Elbow Catch by practicing it perfectly on the Vasa Swim Ergometer and the Vasa Trainer swim bench, then integrate that efficient technique to swimming in the water.
- Triathlon Training: How To Improve Your Freestyle Swim – Part 1
- Triathlon Training: How To Improve Your Freestyle Swim – Part 2
- Triathlon Training: How To Improve Your Freestyle Swim – Part 3
- Triathlon Training: How To Improve Your Freestyle Swim – Part 4
- Triathlon Training: How To Improve Your Freestyle Swim – Part 5
Since 1988, Vasa has produced premium quality exercise training equipment for sports, fitness and rehabilitation. For decades, World Champion Professionals, Olympians, and amateur swimmers, swim coaches, triathletes, triathlon coaches, Physical Therapists, doctors and conditioning coaches worldwide have selected the Vasa Trainer and Vasa Swim Ergometer to dramatically improve performance for swimmers, triathletes, surfers, and paddlers,
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