- Quite a few differences between obviously
pool swimming and open water swimming.
(loud whooshing)
Pow!
Right up there.
Come on, how could you not wanna watch
a guy that wears shoes like this?
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Oh yeah, Trainiacs.
There's open water swimming right in my backyard.
Despite about a half a dozen really dirty looks,
and confused boats stopping to check
if I was okay, perfectly enjoyable.
Now as all of you are transitioning
from all the pool preparation for a race
into open water preparation, I mean I forget
about this over the winter, but there are quite a few
differences between obviously pool
swimming and open water swimming.
Here's some of them.
As I get undressed.
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Oh yeah, just a good lookin' man
in this residential neighborhood.
Okay, so the major differences between
pool swimming and open water swimming
have to do with basically the roughness
of the swimming in the uncontrolled environment
that you're dealing with in open water.
Obviously, you've gotta sight.
If you haven't yet seen the video
that I did on how to sight, I will link it, pow!
Right up there.
You can practice this in the pool as you can in open water.
But some of the more major differences
in the stroke are because you've gotta battle
through waves and you've gotta battle
through basically your competitors.
So your stroke has to be a fair bit like punchier.
It's gotta be rougher.
It's gotta be stronger.
You can't just namby pamby your stroke around
and expect not to be knocked around
by the waves of your competitors.
Don't look at me, homeowners.
Don't look at me.
So you know when you watch swimming on TV,
and you watch the 1,500 meter swimmers,
and for the first 1,300 meters of that
their stroke just looks so smooth and controlled?
Yeah, throw that out the window.
Go watch the 10,000 meter 10k swimmers.
Their strokes are really really punchy.
If you watch ITU swimming, their strokes are really erratic.
It's not because they're looking to go that fast.
I mean they are.
But when you've got waves going around you
that you've gotta get your arm over,
you've got gotta get your arm into
and there's a whole bunch of people
around you that are jostling around those waves
creates a lot of need to have basically a stronger arm.
You need to be more forceful with that
arm entry into the wave so that it
doesn't knock you off of your technique.
Now that's not to say that you need to go out there
and slap the wave like it owes you money.
I would actually recommend that
most beginner triathletes don't even think
about getting more forceful with the water
until you have such comfort in a triathlon
that it's not a matter of just finishing.
For those people, go off to the side.
Go in behind so that you can still
focus on good relaxed technique.
But once you start progressing out of that,
and you're comfortable in the water,
and you're ready to start developing a real strong
open water technique, you've gotta be a little
bit punchier, a little bit more forceful.
This is not total immersion, controlled,
easy, perfectly calm open water swimming.
This is rough.
This is rough and tumble.
Rubbin's Racin'.
Oh, it's hot in here.
Now in addition to that, dealing with the waves also means
that it's not gonna be quite as easy to catch a breath.
When a wave is coming over one side of your head,
A, you've gotta maybe breathe to other side,
and B, you might have to be prepared
to roll more than you normally would in a pool.
Because in a pool, like waves are this big.
In a like, waves could be this big.
So you gotta be prepared to do
a nice big turn onto your side.
This is why in my swim drill program
I recommend that people actually do a drill
where they flip themselves right over
so it's not so hard to turn your body and catch that breath.
Now the last thing that you've gotta be
prepared to do also relates to sighting.
Ooh, let's get some AC goin' up in here.
Put it on high and don't look back.
So as you sight, what happens is you raise your head
and your legs will naturally wanna go down.
Because your point of buoyancy is here,
it's kinda like a seesaw that all the air is in your lungs,
this wants to go up, that wants go down.
This wants to go up, that has to go down.
As you sight, you got no choice but to do it,
your legs are gonna wanna go down.
So you've gotta used to having,
what I try to find is basically
a rhythm that as I raise my head,
I give my legs an extra (mimics clicking)
an extra hard kick in the back to keep my body level.
That also will then help promote
basically a stronger punchier swim stroke
because if you're thinking back here
that you've gotta be a little (mimics clicking)
extra sturdy, you're probably also
going to naturally have a more forceful stroke.
Like I said, get comfortable in the water first,
and then start worrying about building comfort
with all these additional thoughts in mind.
Once your comfortable, you can be in the chop,
you're actually thinking about racing the swim
and not just surviving the swim, then incorporate all these.
Now to the office and a shower
to wash all the silt off my face.
First you gotta check out that swim.
It was so nice.
I'm sure it's been decades since people
have even thought about using the Red River
as an open water swimmin' hole.
It's beautiful.
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I don't know how I'm gettin' up there.
There's hope of gettin' out of here.
This looks safe.
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Right.
Trainiacs, as I start ramping up
workload for Half IRONMAN Austin 70.3,
one of the biggest things that
I have to be careful of is injury prevention
because I tend to get injured a fair bit.
Just in the first week of ramping up training,
last week my feets, beautiful devils,
were already starting to get sore.
Pat was saying, "Oh, let's be careful.
"Keep me posted."
Now, the reason that they were starting
to get sore, and I know better,
is because I was starting to wear flip flops a lot.
You wouldn't think it but flip flops
are actually awful for your feet.
Mm-hmm, yeah they are.
They shorten your stride because you can't take
big long strides and they cause your toes
to go er, just a wee bit every single stride
you take to keep that flip flop on.
So I threw 'em in the garbage.
I found that Toms have never made my feet feel better.
Thing is, they're just damn
expensive for how long they last.
Come on.
How could you not wanna watch a guy
that wears shoes like this, hm?
Vegan Toms.
If I were any more hipster, I'd have to punch myself.
Huh?
Huh?
Huh?
Oh, they ride nice too.
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So Trainiacs, fun thing that I figured out
a couple weeks ago, driving to work
and biking to work are not mutually exclusive.
Before, I was like ah, man I gotta drive to, hang on.
Lawn mower.
(loud mechanical whooshing)
Before, I was like man, I gotta drive to work?
That sucks.
Driving sucks.
Parking, paying for parking sucks.
Walking from parking sucks.
Why can't I just bike all the time?
Well, sometimes I gotta drive.
But I figured out that I can just go and park across
the river, and then bike the mile and a half into work.
Problem solved.
You're dealing with a regular Einstein here, folks.
Oh my god, it's a sauna in there.
Emanating heat.
(happy electronic music)
Later, Trainiacs.
Have a good weekend.
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