One of the biggest issues I see first with my swimming clients is their posture. When they cannot get their spine aligned properly, nearly everything about swimming is very difficult. We start with balance in the water, but if you cannot get truly horizontal in the water, then balance is hard to achieve. Most of[…]
A while back when I was still racing Ironman, I figured out that taking protein powder mixed in sports drink for the days after my long training day could bring in recovery by one whole day. Still, my recovery was up to 3 days after, meaning it was really tough to do a decent workout[…]
It’s been about 6.5 months since I started training with EVOUltrafit. Here’s the update: 1. Whenever I start a new training system, I need to learn and internalize the vocabulary of the system. In order to solicit the correct training responses, Charles Maka, my coach at EVOUltrafit, will often give seemingly vague or convoluted answers.[…]
This post was sparked by some discussion in the forums on finding the perfect spearing angle. Here’s my take on all aspects of the spearing angle during Freestyle. There are two spearing angles: depth and horizontal. Most people think of spearing angle as mostly depth. Actually, you can also spear at a horizontal angle. Using[…]