Rethinking Your Swim with Karlyn Pipes
Nov 14, 2023•1 hr 19 min•Season 2Ep. 94
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Episode description
Karlyn Pipes is one of the most decorated swimmers of all time. She was also inducted into the Swimming Hall of Fame in 2015 and now helps others swim faster. However, from the ages of 15 to her mid 30s, she was consumed by an addiction to alcohol, which she tried to juggle while also being a swimming prodigy and Olympic hopeful. In this episode we talk about her story, but we also talk all things swimming. Some topics covered:
- Karlyn’s story
- The Kona swim- strategy and Lucy Charles Barclay
- Translating Lucy’s technique to age groupers
- Karlyn's 3 principles of swimming
- How to up your cadence in swimming
- Why your elbow drops
- Catch up/gallop stroke
- Why you scissor kick
- Training in an Endless Pool vs lap pool
- Transfer pool swimming to open water
- How to breathe
- 3 constrast drills
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