Probably.  What's gets missed nearly every time this question comes up is that the ability of your road bike to work in a triathlon type position is inversely proportional to the size of your bike.  The bigger you are, the trickier it becomes....

Stroke Rate or Hand Speed?

First, let’s be clear what we are really talking about: Stroke Rate is largely a proxy for Hand Speed, and as proxies go, it’s a decent one. Hand Speed directly effects the force equation, and while it is possible to have decent hand speed at...

Gadgets, gadgets everywhere, (and the best ones you were born with).

The multitude of electronics that we use to monitor training metrics serve two primary purposes.

First, the macro, which measures the dose side of the

dose --> response relationship. If you are familiar...

It’s a question that I hear often, and have fun trying to answer. The obvious caveat being that speed increase varies immensely and depends on your position and equipment choices prior to getting fit. 

Positionally speaking, the primary goal is to reduce your frontal ar...

Open water swimming is not fundamentally different than pool swimming.  It differs in details, but many key elements such as swimming straight, changing speed and effort, and altering kick rhythm on demand are all things that can (and should) be learned in an effective...

in·te·gra·tor

ˈin(t)əˌɡrādər/

noun

1. a person or thing that integrates.

One of the more interesting discoveries while writing this post was finding that despite Finding Freestyle's historical usage of the term (dating back to 2009), the word integrator has never existed i...

There will be a short video to accompany the finalized blog, but step 1 is mostly non visual. Consider this a pre-release:

Let’s get the controversial stuff out of the way first. Most of these blog/videos will be short and sweet, with little chance of pissing anyone off...

Despite what you have been told, you probably aren’t stuck at swimming because you don’t do it long enough or hard enough or frequently enough. You're probably stuck because you (and your coach) don’t understand how your body learns complicated things. You understand h...

Triathlon might be twice as popular if it wasn’t for the swim.  Athletes who think nothing of rising before the sun to run ten miles uphill, or crank out a century every weekend, often stand at waters edge quivering in their swim caps (or secretly hoping for a cancelle...

When I look at a human being, I see a learning and adaptation machine. I think that our ability to alter our form is what sets us apart from the rest of the earth's creatures, or at least is one of the few things that we do in a superior manner. The benefits of variety...