Hoka Hip Mobility
Dave Scott goes over three key hip mobility exercises designed to increase your range of motion and performance while swimming, biking or running.
Recommended Swim Gear
Dave shares a few of his favorite swim gear recommendations: Bundle One: This selection of gear helps to maximize head position and body alignment increasing bilateral symmetry. Freestyle Snorkel( FS ): High head position and lateral head movement are the two freestyle triggers for poor alignment! The FS will correct this [...]
Swimming Faster: My Tips for Achieving a High-Elbow Swim Stroke
Looking to swim faster? Practicing a high-elbow set is a great way to achieve a better swim stroke. Use these easy tips of what I like to call my "Four Eyeballs of Form in Swimming" to help your swim stroke. https://youtu.be/vDa8lhh8GAw
Elevate Your Freestyle with the Breaststroke Pull Drill
Breaststroke pull with a freestyle kick is an amazing drill to help your freestyle swimming. Try this drill during your swim workouts for 2 sets of 8x25 one time per week and watch your freestyle stroke improve! https://youtu.be/Mac96dT5LDE
Improve Your Form and Core Strength with This Swim Session
Looking to improve your stroke and swim faster freestyle? For today’s Workout Wednesday powered by BioAstin, try this swim session during your build season that will help activate your core and hone in on the proper freestyle form. Warm Up 10 min and include 6 lengths of double arm backstroke. Doing double arm backstroke provides [...]
Progressive Swim Skills Presented by FINIS: Modify Your Kick for More Efficient Freestyle
For most triathletes, the kick provides stability (not propulsion). Check out my tips for making your kick more effective. https://youtu.be/K7wwUweROI0
Ask The Man: When Should I Swim with a Pull Buoy?
There's a myth being circulated in Boulder that if you show up to my workout with a pull buoy, then I'll confiscate it. Not true! However I'm very leery of pull buoys... and how many swimmers use them. Pull buoys do not make you a better swimmer and they provide an artificial sense of buoyancy. Triathletes tend to swim with [...]
Progressive Swim Skills Presented By FINIS: Improve Your Breathing Technique
Most triathletes don't think the way they breathe in their freestyle stroke can slow them down. Breathing with proper form is key to a faster freestyle stroke. Try these tips to perfect your breathing technique. https://youtu.be/F1j6ROFyGeU
Progressive Swim Skills Presented By FINIS: Precise Pull Pattern for Faster Freestyle Swimming
After a well-executed high elbow set, adopting a precise underwater pull pattern will help generate more power speed to your freestyle stroke. This is part 6 in my 10 part series: Progressive Swimming Skills All Triathletes Should Master. I hope you like it! Dave https://youtu.be/ZkTTvgpCLqg
Progressive Swim Skills Presented by FINIS: Master the High Elbow Set
The high elbow set is the single-most important skill you can master for faster freestyle. Follow my tips to help perfect this skill. https://youtu.be/WTkFg9hpSMs