Dan Salcedo has just loaded his session of the month. It is a swim session focusing on upper aerobic development and pace awareness to help you improve your technique and maintain those technical gains over an entire swim set.

If you would like to see Dan’s session either login as a member or take a trial membership and take a look.

A Comprehensive Guide To An Efficient Front Crawl Stroke

Stroke Builder, for Apple iPhone and iPad, has just  been launched by leading UK triathlon coaching company thetrilife.com. 

 The app uses high definition video clips, narrated by former Great Britain Olympic coach Dan Salcedo, to provide a step-by-step guide to stroke improvement, assist the athlete in identifying their own faults and illustrate a collection of the most useful swimming drills. 

Novice triathletes and swimmers will benefit from the Stroke Builder section of the app.  Here, each phase of the stroke is clearly explained and demonstrated with video.   The app suggests drills to develop an efficient and relaxed front crawl stroke so that novice athletes can swim their race distance comfortably without feeling exhausted.

For more experienced triathletes, wanting to shave off a couple of minutes from their race swim time, the finer points of a great swim stroke are described in detail and the mystery of a good catch and pull unravelled.  Athletes that know where their faults are will want to use Fault Fixer.  Fault Fixer allows the athlete to compare their own swimming to a collection of video clips illustrating commonly observed faults and suggest drills to correct the fault.

Coaches will find the Drills Database invaluable, not only in terms of quality of the footage (drills demonstrated by ex elite triathlete Andrea Whitcombe) and quantity of drills available but also because of the ease of use.  The app will become the coaches’ pocket drill bible for showing their athletes exactly how a drill should be performed as well as providing the coach with reminders of which drills are best for which faults – no longer will coaches have to resort to links to youTube videos.

Former Great Britain Olympic coach Dan Salcedo said “Our aim with this app was to produce a comprehensive guide to front crawl in one easy to use resource that is like having your own coach at home.  Using videos has allowed us to show details of the stroke that are not always clearly explained in books.  We are thrilled with the app and hope that athletes will be too.”

Liz Scott, director of thetrilife.com said “We have been working on this app for a number of months and we are delighted with the result.  We wanted to create an app that would become a coaching tool that every triathlete and coach would want to have in their pocket at the pool.   We think that we got what we wanted.”  

Stroke Builder is available now from the iTunes App Store.

Duncan Scott has just loaded his session of the month. It is a gym-based session for those days when you cannot face the cold and wet conditions, or for when you cannot access the great outdoors however much you try!

If you would like to see Duncan’s session either login as a member or take a trial membership and take a look.

There are now just under 36 weeks before the start of Ironman Wales 2012. And we now know what a fantastic but challenging race this is!

Read on if:

• this will be your first Ironman race
• this will be your first triathlon
• you’ve done some races but suspect a structured training program will help you achieve your potential

Thetrilife.com team of coaches, led by long distance expert and Welsh IM record holder Richard Jones have designed a full 9 month training program to prepare you for your race at Tenby on 16th September. These are the only Official Ironman Wales programs available and have been written specifically for this challenging and technical course.

The 9 month program, which takes you all the way from developing new skills and endurance through to race specific training started this week  – so don’t delay! Buy your program now. What a fantastic way to start your New Year!

Why is this better than a plan from a book?

When you buy a training program from thetrilife.com you will get as much coach support as you need from the experienced coaches at thetrilife.com via email. Need some motivation – just drop us a line! On top of this, your program is delivered via the internet so is accessible wherever you are AND your sessions are emailed to you nightly – no scraps of paper to carry around! Finally, you will have access to an online training diary so that you can track and analyse your training and monitor your progress.
As with all thetrilife.com training programs you will get:
• Fully structured and effective sessions in all disciplines
• Progressive overload and recovery periods to develop fitness, strength and speed
• A course – specific training program
• Email support from a coach at thetrilife.com
• A well-planned taper
• Reassurance that you are doing the right training at the right time
• A comprehensive online training diary to track your progress
• thetrilife.com coaches available for last minute advice and reassurance over race weekend

Need more information

If you have any queries about this training program or wonder if the program will be right for you, please contact us at enquiries@thetrilife.com or call thetrilife.com on 07791 289792. And if you need a program that is more bespoke and tailored to your personal lifestyle, commitments and strengths and weaknesses please do contact a coach at thetrilife.com at enquiries@thetrilife.com.