Your swim workout says “technique.”
Your Masters swim or triathlon coach gives you drills and corrections. You may be swimming three or four times per week and working on your catch, breathing, kick, balance, or body position.
❓ So why can the stroke still look the same, the pace remain stuck, and swimming continue to take more effort than expected?
Many athletes listen carefully and genuinely try to make the correction. Their coach may tell them they are crossing over, have sinking legs, lifting their head, losing their catch, holding their breath, or allowing their legs to separate.
They focus on the cue during the next length, but the workout moves on before they know whether anything actually changed. The next time they swim, there may be a different drill, a different set, or a different focus. Several weeks later, the same problem may still be there. 😩
The athlete may feel better during the drill, only to lose the movement as soon as the pace increases, the distance gets longer, or they enter open water. Their swim fitness may improve, but their pace does not change much. Swimming still feels harder than it should, and they remain unsure whether their stroke will be there when they need it on race day.
This does not automatically mean the coach is bad, and it does not mean the athlete is not working hard enough.
Masters swimming also can be excellent for building fitness, consistency, pacing, accountability, and confidence swimming with other people. A triathlon coach may also be giving the athlete useful drills and the right direction.
👉 Yet there can still be a gap between completing technique workouts and seeing a lasting change that improves pace, lowers effort, and remains available when the swim becomes harder or on race day.
That gap is exactly what I’m breaking down during this episode.
📍 Your Masters or Triathlon Coach Gives you Technique Workouts... So Why Isn’t Your Stroke Changing?
During this episode, I’ll show you: ✔ Why receiving good drills and corrections may still not produce a lasting change ✔ What may be missing when technique is included in the workouts but the stroke, pace, and effort stay the same ✔ Why a correction may feel better during a drill but disappear during faster or longer swimming ✔ Why adding more yards can sometimes make the problem harder to change ✔ How breathing, balance, catch, kick, and body position can affect one another ✔ What needs to happen before a correction can remain during faster, longer, and open-water swimming ✔ How athletes can identify where their current technique process may be breaking down
This is not about criticizing Masters swimming or telling athletes to leave their coach.
You may have a knowledgeable coach, useful workouts, and the right drills. Yet there can still be a gap between being told what to change and seeing that change appear consistently in your stroke.
That is the gap I’ll help you identify during this episode.