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The Unfair Advantage #001:
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Welcome to the brand new Endurance Nation newsletter. Every edition will contain actionable, detailed advice for your endurance lifestyle in a simple five-minute read. __________________________________ 🪝The HookYou are over-indexing on swim training and underestimating the value of doing a swim recon. All that work. All the backs and forths. The perfect hand entry. And it won’t really matter. Seriously. Put simply, you are losing precious time on race day. How? By failing to ask the right questions in order to prepare for the race swim venue. Get an Unfair Advantage: Learn how to recon your swim and save minutes. 🕶️ The Bottom LineIn order to recon your swim — deconstruct the race experience — you need to ask yourself a few key questions. We recommend you focus on these topic areas: the Venue, the Start Procedure, and Your Effort. But I’m Too Busy!!!???!!! Hey, no yelling underwater! 🤣 You likely already know the answers and can incorporate them into your training. It’s not that hard. Power User Tip: Turn on your voice memo app on your phone and answer these questions out loud. Faster and you can play back at 1.5x for faster review! Here is our simple, systematic approach to success at ANY race day swim. 🌊 Adapt to the VenueThe difference between surviving and swimming is 90% adapting to the race day environment. Think about it. In your training, you always go to the same pool. You probably swim in the same lane. At the same time. In the same gear. Even the lifeguard knows your middle name! Adapt to your swim venue with these key questions:
🟢Adapt to the Start ProcedureKnowing the structure of the swim start and how you will approach it puts you in control. A good swim entry can set the tone for the entire swim and give you a significant advantage. A confident and focused mindset can make all the difference in achieving the perfect start. Here are a few questions to help you adapt to your race swim start procedure.
🏊 Adapt Your EffortSwimming is 99% skill and 1% fitness when it comes to results. Especially in an event that is just the beginning of your entire day. We don’t have the option of spending all of our energy on the swim and also racing at a high level all day. Besides, you can’t swim and look at your watch. And even if you could, you can’t really “make up” time. The better your technique, the better your form. The better your form, the faster you will swim. Slow is smooth and smooth is fast. How to get smooth swimming? Adapt to your swim start procedure by choosing at least five options from this list of key questions:
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