Swimming in triathlon

Often the big problem for the majority of triathletes who come from athletics or cycling. Not only requires a great physical preparation to cope meters (usually between 750metros and 1500metros) making up the swimming phase of a triathlon. If it is not necessary that a technical level at least good. No longer just for not leaving at the end of the bunch, but so that our efforts during natatoria serve something.

At the stage of career or in cycling technique can make us lose something inappropriate speed or increase the risks of lession. But in the swimming technique can inadequate that much of our energy is wasted and it emerged from the last water depart more tired than those who have left at the top. The swimming a triathlon is different from swimming in the pool, it's like the cycling track or cycling on the road. The phase of swimming in open water is not in a pool, here how to swim and technique have certain differences with the technique of a swimmer racing in a swimming pool.

These differences are significant but do not require technical eg for a swimmer of significant changes in the movements of the different sectors of the body. These changes are more related to adaptation to the environment (waves, wind, temperature and density of participants) with changes in the parameters swimming, the frequency or length of the cycle. Authors like Javier Solas (2006 todonacion.com) state that there should be no difference between a swimmer in substance or in open water and a triathlete doing the swimming segment. And that differences estriaban in the relationship between the frequency and length for swimmers background in front of the swimming speed. As a triathlete must have the technique of a swimmer and specifically the technical background of a swimmer. And knowing the tactics of swimming in open waters.