Swim Kit Every Athlete Needs! | Essential Swimming Gear

[@gtn]

What is essential in your swim bag? Let us know!

[@neilwillis4694]

I use O'Three Jollop to get my wetsuit on and off more quickly. It's the same stuff I use to get my hands through the wrist seal of my SCUBA drysuit

[@lwittrock1]

As a tech diver, we've been using KY Jelly to easy donning a dry suit or semi dry wetsuit without damaging the neoprene at all. In fact, it help protect and prolong the neoprene and it's not a hazard to fish in the ocean or rivers and lakes.

[@stijnvanloock3194]

Pro tip put your pull boy more towards your knees. Helps to train good posture en blocks more of the movement. Same with kickboard. hold it at the end for better posture training. or use your pullboy more demanding on the core.

[@PhiyackYuh]

I thought its more just above the knees? Reason being when squeezing it with your knee you tend to activate your core and you can also feel it in your adductors yeh?

[@michaelcarrizo9453]

My workout! I put my workout in a ziplock baggy. Plus ear drops & anti fog spray.

[@L.O.K.I]

Ear plugs are essential for my swimming, even during races.

[@wilfdarr]

Never wear earplugs for diving, but for swimming, I can tell you from experience that a bad infection can set your training back years once you consider the time getting it under control, doctors appointments and you have the timpanoplasty. I now always wear plugs for pool training and carry a small bottle of hydrogen peroxide in my swim bag.

[@NylonAdidas]

Informative and very interesting video. Thanks for sharing Mark. You are awesome 👍

[@janeleitch7265]

Tempo trainer is an essential for me! Also I keep all my stuff in a mesh bag poolside.

[@willhogarth9945]

Never swim train without a Tempo Trainer - Controlling pace is the key to long swims

[@deepzerocool]

I have energy gels!! Can’t sustain without them if the swim is longer than 1hr

[@Delpiero015]

Ankle resistance band and tempo trainer. Just for extra fun :)

[@CyberSecureCitizen]

Being a track and field athlete do I need the swimming kit?

[@I..cast..fireball]

Would a flotation belt be a good way to simulate wet suite? Neoprene flotation shorts = $$$ and can't share. Pull buoy prevents legs from being used properly.

[@jamiefuhrman403]

Any recommendations on where to purchase various kit items?

[@lwittrock1]

Great show!

[@egeassos4755]

Hey people, I have a few questions for you. I felt quite awful during my run today. I've had an 8k trail race 2 weeks ago, had 1 week of recovery after that and this week I was preparing to start my regular training schedule. But I had some stomach problems in the past 2 days, barely ate anything and couldn't sleep well. I was feeling good this morning and headed out for a run, but started to feel bad after 2 kilometers and had to stop. Is it because of these last 2 days that I've mentioned ? I was expecting a performance drop but not that much. Thank you very much for your answers.

[@GeorgEberle]

Coin for the locker ;-)

[@gtn]

How could we forget!? 🤣

[@xrayfish2020]

I use the same coin I used for shopping trolley I have a spare one in my swim bag as you've either forgotten a 20p or £1

[@fatgirlonbike7153]

Well, I don't really need a bottle when swimming. Before I Start swimming, there is a lot of Water in the Pool. But after I am done with my swimming the Pool is more or less empty. 🙈

[@FCF09]

So I bought a Roka wetsuit to use this winter but I feel like my neck is being rubbed raw!! Any advice on how to stop the chaffing with the neck of wetsuit?

[@fgallos]

A rubber neck protector is a must if you use a wetsuit www.amazon.es/dp/B01GRWDRK4?ref=ppx_pop_mob_ap_share

[@francoisrouviere]

I would maybe add a tempo trainer

[@chasedavies6890]

Swim has definitely been more my budget out of the three events 😂 who else agrees?

[@garethmillsaccidentalcyclist]

Great video... as always. Can you answer why some pools don't allow snorkels? My local Virgin Gym refuse to let me use it, but none of the lifeguards can ever answer me why!!

[@MissLyssieBear]

I have the same issues! Flippers as well :( one lifeguard told me they won't let you use the snorkel (unless your in a swim club) cause they can't tell if your drowning or not.... 🤔

[@garethmillsaccidentalcyclist]

@@MissLyssieBear 🤔🤔🤔 I’m no lifeguard but I think I can tell the difference between someone drowning and swimming 😂 crazy isn’t it

[@florianbasier]

you and I have different definitions of the word "Essential"...

[@rohansingh7698]

Honestly as someone new to Tri comming from a swim background, they really are. Maybe not the snorkel, shorts or bag, but the flippers, paddles, pull buoy, and kick board are a massive part of a well structured swim schedule. Sometimes local pools have kick boards or pull boyes you can use, or there are 2 in one kick/pull things that can save money.

[@sebm.4099]

It's very rich bag! And it looked like you robbed orca shop. :)

[@erikjohnson7002]

I signed up for my first triathlon a month or two before the Great Panic having never trained in a pool. I have been training for that original tri and others since then and you guys keep reminding me that there are THREE disciplines in triathlon. Thanks for reminding me that I need to learn how to not drown half a mile into the race if and when I get to go to a non-virtual one 😂😂😂

[@moytheboy22]

Swim brief that’s anything but Speedo or Tyr? Do you actually swim? 🤔

[@uriahbello3291]

What is the thing in 6:35 don't get what thw name is please?

[@firebird1540]

Neoprene shorts

[@kirkprl]

How is Frazier doing?

[@fidru]

@min 5:50 have in mind that swimmimg with the snorkel demands the use of a nose clamp. and that causes problems for a lot of people!!!

[@MrBraindead101]

You don't need a nose clamp for a snorkel. Just don't breathe through your nose.

[@markthrelfall3577]

As someone has pointed out, you don’t need a nose clip with a snorkel

[@paulhetherington3854]

No one, ever needs - a cap! It don't help, in rescues. Except maybe, get spot!

[@mariatooker3475]

Perhaps a tutorial on how to use a snorkel ...

[@wilfdarr]

It's optional: my advice is to learn to swim without it right out the gate. Ya it adds one more thing to learn, but you'll need to learn it before you race so might as well start now.

[@mariatooker3475]

@@wilfdarr started at the beginning of 2020 and gave up, but I've got nothing but time so might as well try again to get used to it! thanks for the encouragement.

[@wilfdarr]

I did a seminar with Mandy Rae Cruickshank and Kirk Krak (her coach) back when she still held the world record, showed up at the pool with a snorkel, and that was the last time I ever used one: it's 12 cu.inch of dead air, it adds drag, they have a tendency of unsealing goggles at inopportune times... it's just easier to turn your head. On that note, I've just run across an open water method where you turn your whole body rather than just your head that looks promising, I haven't tried it yet, but maybe look into that as well. My theory is that people like you and I aren't going to win the iron man, we're doing it simply for the fun of it, so do what works for you.

[@mariatooker3475]

@@wilfdarr so true!!!

[@MrTigerlilly68]

I miss my swim sessions...

[@paulhetherington3854]

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[@darekwink7531]

What no music player?

[@xrayfish2020]

Snorkels - please check with your pool as you maybe barred the use of the snorkel on health and safety ground my pool I'm barred from using it

[@janeleitch7265]

I have heard about this. Why though?

[@wilfdarr]

Not an issue at any pools I've gone to, but I've always considered them a distraction more than an aid.

[@xrayfish2020]

My local pool doesn't allow them for general swimming but may during approved lessons

[@vinlizzy7222]

Same where I'm from you can't use fins or hard hand paddles either unless your in with a club that has booked out lanes.

[@DeanPattrick]

I couldn’t really see the products due to the massive ORCA promotion 😬

[@markthrelfall3577]

Orca are our channel partner, so naturally we just use all their products. That’s how all our channels work, and how we manage to produce videos that our free to view. This was not a branded or paid for video though

[@DeanPattrick]

@@markthrelfall3577 Mark, I think we both know this is an advert, whether it’s in the form of Orca being a channel partner or a paid promotion. At the end of the day whether it channel partner or paid, Orca stuff is in our face. TBH I really don’t care, it’s the content and dialogue from you and the team that is of value to me. Sure I’m aware of the Orca brand and have a few bits of their kit, so even Orca win here 😎

[@markthrelfall3577]

@@DeanPattrick well then that’s our job done then. There is also the matter of only having Orca kit now as I have got rid of all of my old stuff. Pleased you like the content, and I hope you understand that having partners of the channel is how we keep producing these videos. We also disclose when it is a specific paid for video

[@DeanPattrick]

@@markthrelfall3577 Sure, I understand, we are all cool. I love the content from you and the team. One thing is for sure we did not even have the internet when I started doing triathlons in 1992, let alone these types of media channel and content. :-/

[@MrBraindead101]

Tbh, I hadn't noticed the products were all Orca...

[@trbeyond]

And he forgot his swimsuit !