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ROKA Guppy Challenge: Week 7

There were 17 Critique-my-fit threads on our forum in 2016. How come so few Critique-my-swim requests?

by Slowman, January 21, 2018

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ROKA Guppy Challenge: Week 6

No more thought experiments. Now it's just practicing the drills and themes that we learned during the first half of this challenge.

Gravel

Real Resolve

Tons of people make New Year's resolutions - you know the type of people that I'm talking about, it's usually the same person in your office who asks you, "What's the secret to staying in shape?" When you reply that there is no secret, it's just a long-term commitment to exercise and a healthy diet, they usually storm off in a huff because you won't reveal what they are convinced is "the big secret."

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Guppy Challenge: Week 5

Are you able to perform one-arm pulls as described? If so, you are swimming hip-driven freestyle! Now let's begin to focus on how you pull.

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Training Partners: Underrated

The power of the training enclave is huge; it's how most of the world's best athletes got to be good, and remain good.

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Genetics is Overrated

Genetics wins when you’re 11. But the older you get the more genetics falls to the point of being an inconsequential factor.

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How Important is a Sports Background?

It's not just about learning good technique. A lot of late-onset triathletes quit because they never understand the Big Idea.

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Guppy Challenge: Week 4

You retain the vestigial behaviors from the time you were still struggling with learning to breathe to the side. Let's deal with those.

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How Important Is Where You Train?

I have less confidence in today’s installment than any I’ve already written, or any that I’m going to write. But I rank this rather high.

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Guppy Challenge: Week 3

When you have a hard time doing these drills you should rejoice! They expose problems, and we can't cure what we can't identify.

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Technical Grasp of Sport

There are more important elements to success than this one, but a mediocre understanding of sport usually begets mediocre finishes.

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Guppy Challenge: Week 2

Improving your hull is an exercise in 2 planes: feet on the surface (vertical plane); and feet moving forward, not side to side (horizontal plane).

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In a winter training camp with Andi Böcherer

German Pro Andi Böcherer spent two weeks in a winter training camp on Fuerteventura and here are impressions and details from those two weeks.