Kevin is flying solo on this episode and he shares about the "Tri Swim Rules", the redesign and sort of rebranding of the TriSwimCoach website. Exciting things are coming and one of them is the Tri Swim Manifesto. It’s basically the rules that encompass the whole Tri Swim Coach community.

Learn "the rules", what Tri Swim Coach stands for, and what it stands against on this part 1 episode. Don’t miss it!

• Redesign and rebranding of TriSwimCoach
• The Tri Swim Manifesto
• Building a community
• Rule 1: It never gets easier, you just get better
• Rule 2: Befriend the water
• Rule 3: Your background doesn’t matter, it’s where you are going that’s important
• Rule 4: We learn swimming as naturally as possible
• Being open to change

• TriSwimCoach
• TriSwimCoach Podcast

Coach Dominic Latella is the only US Masters Swimming (USMS) Level 4 (the highest certification available) certified coach in VA. He is an instructor for USMS Certifications and the USMS Adult Learn to Swim program. He is the owner and lead instructor of SwimBox, where they specialize in swim lessons for people of all ages and levels. And he has been appointed twice – the maximum amount – as the lead coach for USMS High Performance Camp. Coach Latella also works with the swimming rehabilitation and adaptive swimming programs at Bethesda Naval Hospital for the Wounded Warriors.

Coach Latella’s philosophy focuses on the execution of proper swimming technique to achieve improved efficiency and prevent injury. This way of coaching allows swimmers to not only reach personal bests, but do so in a way that allows their body to keep up their love of swimming for a lifetime. Fewer injuries and happy swimmers are Coach Latella’s favorite things to see.

• How Dominic developed his passion for swimming
• Correcting your swim technique to avoid shoulder injury
• Dominic's experience working with different clients
• Training beginner swimmers
• Endless pool technology
• Applying the Wim Hof method
• Open water anxiety
• High elbow catch
• Swimming workout for distance swimmers/triathletes
• USRPT  (Ultra Short Race Pace Training)
• Swimming test sets
• Triathlon training at Lake Como, Italy in August

• SwimBox
• Instagram.com/swim_box
• USRPT
• Wim Hof Method
• Wim Hof Vice documentary

• beginner, intermediate, and advanced swimmers
• importance of swim drills
• overcoming fear of water and swimming
• better breathing
• watching YouTube videos to help improve your technique
• when to incorporate more intensity
• interval training
• swimming sprints vs. distance
• fixing bad swimming habits
• building endurance
• yoga & strength training
• consistency in training
• keeping an open mindset

• Facebook.com/triswimcoach
• Emilia Lahti Podcast Episode

Emilia Lahti (MSc, MAPP) is a researcher and social activist, whose life mission is to simply be a catalyst for human connection, compassion and non-violence. She has given talks at Stanford, UC Berkeley and TEDx, as well as at Singularity University at NASA Ames, where she studied futurism and exponential technology. Her work has been featured in The New Yorker, Business Insider and Forbes, among others. In her current PhD, Emilia is exploring the Finnish construct of sisu, denoting endurance in in the face of extreme adversity. Emilia is an avid human rights advocate and is currently training to run 2400 km solo across the length of New Zealand to break the silence around interpersonal violence and highlight the strength of overcomers of abuse.

In this episode, Kevin interviews Chris Hague and Brad Kearns, host of The Primal Endurance Podcast. They discuss:

• Balancing health and fitness 
• Stress management
• Sleep & Circadian Rhythm
• Genetic influence on athletic performance
• Other factors that affect training recovery
• Training motivations
• Common misconceptions about pro athletes
• Rigid versus fluid workout training schedule
• Guiding your training decisions by your desire to train
• Training frequency and consistency
• The 180 Heart Rate Formula by Dr. Philip Maffetone
• Potential adverse cardiovascular effects from excessive endurance exercise
• Pushing your body to the limits

• BradKearns.com
• Primal Endurance Podcast
• Primal Endurance Consistency Is Key episode
• Run for your life! At a comfortable pace, and not too far: James O'Keefe at TEDxUMKC

Books

• Lights Out: Sleep, Sugar, and Survival by T. S. Wiley
• Primal Endurance: Escape chronic cardio and carbohydrate dependency and become a fat burning beast! by Brad Kearns
• Relentless: From Good to Great to Unstoppable by Tim S. Grover