USAT article on Swim Training

Was surprised to read #1. I would agree but I wonder who has time for tri training, family, work, AND learning the other 3 strokes. Tall order if you have no clue on the other strokes. Given unlimited time, it makes sense to learn and add in the other strokes during workouts. I'd also add in that triathletes need to swim more during workouts. It's great to just kick and just pull and use all the toys, but I became a better freestyler by swimming freestyle sets without the toys. I swam a practice today that aside from warm up was all toys. :afraid: Some toys some of the time are awesome. But the whole practice. . .

Was surprised to read #1. I would agree but I wonder who has time for tri training, family, work, AND learning the other 3 strokes. Tall order if you have no clue on the other strokes. Given unlimited time, it makes sense to learn and add in the other strokes during workouts. I'd also add in that triathletes need to swim more during workouts. It's great to just kick and just pull and use all the toys, but I became a better freestyler by swimming freestyle sets without the toys. I swam a practice today that aside from warm up was all toys. :afraid: Some toys some of the time are awesome. But the whole practice. . .