Swim Workouts for Triathletes by Gale Bernhardt

Swim Workouts for Triathletes by Gale Bernhardt

It's no secret: Most triathletes are weak swimmers. Improving your swim will make you a faster, more confident triathlete.
Swim Workouts for Triathletes features 80 swim workouts with the structure, variety, and drills you need to become a more efficient swimmer. Each workout is designed around a specific goal--endurance, speed, form, muscular endurance, or anaerobic endurance--making it easy to prepare for any race and improve all-around swimming skill.
You can use these workouts in your current training or begin one of the swim training plans inside. The new edition also includes: The 10 best drills for improved freestyle performance30-minute sessions to fit a quality workout into a busy dayOpen-water workouts to get you race-readyBeginner & advanced workout sets to suit your ability or schedule4 training plans for sprint, Olympic & half-Ironman(R), Ironman(R), and general fitness

Take Swim Workouts for Triathletes to the pool to help strengthen your swim and become a better triathlete.

Gale Bernhardt is one of a handful of USA Triathlon World Cup coaches and has coached athletes in two Olympic Games. She traveled to Athens, Greece as the 2004 USA Triathlon Olympic Coach for both the men's and women's triathlon teams. This honor was in addition to the selection by USA Triathlon as the 2003 Pan American Games Coach for both the men's and women's teams. Her first Olympic experience was as a personal cycling coach at the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games

Gale has instructed or coached athletes since 1974. She has a BS degree from Colorado State University, is certified as a Level I Coach by USA Cycling and a Level III Coach by USA Triathlon. These are the highest levels possible in both organizations. She has served on the USA Triathlon National Coaching Committee from 2000 to the present and was in a leadership role for five consecutive years.

She is a longtime contributor to Active.com and has written for a variety of endurance sports magazines.