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Triathlon Training – Swim Fast to Get Fast Part 2

Mike — Sat, 30 Oct 2010 13:02:24 +0000

By Gale Bernhardt For Active.com In an earlier column, I encouraged you to try some fast 25s to boost your swimming speed. People have been trying the workouts and, lo and behold, they are swimming faster. Excellent! Now that you’ve mastered some of the shorter workouts, let’s bump the distance up some. Below are new …

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Triathlon Training – Swim Fast to Get Fast

Mike — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 07:46:15 +0000

By Gale Bernhardt For Active.com I completely agree that doing form drills to practice good swimming technique is critical to the process of becoming a faster swimmer. That written, you cannot expect that slow and purposeful drills will increase your sustained swimming speed if you never swim fast. Certainly, a beginning swimmer can make significant …

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Triathlon Swimming – Are there shark attractant or repellent colours?

Mike — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 08:09:44 +0000

I have often thought that the colour of my Orca wetsuit too closely resembles that of a seal which is after all prime shark food. So I got to wondering if there is any data on shark attractant or repellent colours, and if so, why are wetsuit manufacturers not making them accordingly? It seems too …

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