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Roller Board for Swimming

  • 15-09-2011 4:34pm
    #1
    teol
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    I'm thinking of making a roller board to compliment swim training for triathlon. All serious xc skiiers have them. Do you think it would be beneficial for triathlon?

    Here is an example of such a device:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtFw2b2C5Ac


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  • #2
    tunney
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,584 ✭✭✭✭tunney


    teol wrote: »
    I'm thinking of making a roller board to compliment swim training for triathlon. All serious xc skiiers have them. Do you think it would be beneficial for triathlon?

    Here is an example of such a device:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtFw2b2C5Ac

    Is the limiter of most triathletes swimming strength and fitness or technique?


  • #3
    kingQuez
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    Hey Tunney, from what I can remember you've got a pretty pointy swim in you somewhere in the recent past. At what point does strength work start to matter? Can it be equated to your pace per 100s (ie. after X some strength work will pay off)? I think I've OK technique, but when I sprint it starts to fall apart a bit (arms going where its easy to go, rather than where they should go for maximum propulsion during the pull, after a few hundred meters).

    Is that the sort of thing that means I should just swim more to get an improvement, or would improving strength outside of the pool transfer to keeping technique pretty in the pool in a more time-efficient approach to training?


  • #4
    tunney
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    kingQuez wrote: »
    Hey Tunney, from what I can remember you've got a pretty pointy swim in you somewhere in the recent past. At what point does strength work start to matter? Can it be equated to your pace per 100s (ie. after X some strength work will pay off)? I think I've OK technique, but when I sprint it starts to fall apart a bit (arms going where its easy to go, rather than where they should go for maximum propulsion during the pull, after a few hundred meters).

    Is that the sort of thing that means I should just swim more to get an improvement, or would improving strength outside of the pool transfer to keeping technique pretty in the pool in a more time-efficient approach to training?

    What are your:
    50m pb
    100m pb
    400m pb


  • #5
    kingQuez
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    tunney wrote: »
    What are your:
    50m pb
    100m pb
    400m pb

    I havent been careful about tracking them for a while.. from notes i can find:

    50: 0'41 - (may, pretty old)
    100: 1'27 (around may too) - regularly do 1'30 at the moment during sets, haven't done a single one flat out for a while.
    400: 6'15 - pretty recent, but early morning so i think i can do better


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