Triathlon Swimming - Rodrigues, Gerry
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OPEN-WATER SWIMMING is a real test of a triathlete's physical and mental limits. Waves, wind, changing currents and visibility, elbows flying and feet kicking-it's easy to see why most triathletes breathe a sigh of relief on exiting the swim. Triathlon Swimming will make you more confident, strong, and fast in open water. Coach Gerry Rodrigues invites you to use his Tower 26 method: If you are willing to put in more time in the pool and be accountable to your goals, you can improve your technique and align your training program to master open-water swimming. As rewarding as it is rigorous, the…mehr

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OPEN-WATER SWIMMING is a real test of a triathlete's physical and mental limits. Waves, wind, changing currents and visibility, elbows flying and feet kicking-it's easy to see why most triathletes breathe a sigh of relief on exiting the swim. Triathlon Swimming will make you more confident, strong, and fast in open water. Coach Gerry Rodrigues invites you to use his Tower 26 method: If you are willing to put in more time in the pool and be accountable to your goals, you can improve your technique and align your training program to master open-water swimming. As rewarding as it is rigorous, the Tower 26 program will equip you to handle whatever race day brings. There are no shortcuts in this method, but by building consistency and stamina, you will make real gains year over year and truly enjoy triathlon swimming. "Gerry Rodrigues is simply the best swimming coach I have met. . . . Any swimmer or triathlete not utilizing his program is missing something very special." -MATT DIXON, coach and cofounder of Purple Patch Fitness "Gerry Rodrigues has to be the best and the most demanding coach. He took a 260-pound man and turned him into an Ironman." -GORDON RAMSAY, chef, restaurateur, and television personality GERRY RODRIGUES grew up in Trinidad competing in open-water competitions and cultivating what would become a lifelong study of the sport of swimming. He has coached dozens of swimmers to top national records and wins, Olympic gold medals, and world championships. His Tower 26 program turns out hundreds of race-ready triathletes, in Los Angeles and all over the world.
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Gerry Rodrigues is the guru of open-water swimming. As Head Coach of the prestigious Tower 26 swimming program based in Santa Monica, California, Rodrigues is the swimming technique expert behind top triathlon coaches like Matt Dixon (Purple Patch Fitness), Jim Vance, Rad Hallman (Head Coach, USC Triathlon), celebrity open-water swimmers, and many high-performing professional and age-group triathletes. Rodrigues grew up swimming off the Caribbean island of Trinidad, where he won many open-water ocean swimming races and earned an athletic scholarship to Pepperdine University. He won U.S. Masters Swimming national championships, set several U.S. and world masters swimming records, and has won over 100 open water swimming races. Rodrigues started coaching triathletes in the early 1980s, helped found the first triathlon club in Los Angeles and Team Malibu, and organized the Malibu Masters Swim Club. He cofounded the World Open Water Swimming Association and has managed and coached numerous swimming clubs and teams in Southern California and coached dozens of swimmers to top 10 national rankings, national championship wins, national and world records, and has coached Olympic gold medalists and world champions. Rodrigues was owner of SWIM Magazine and publisher of Swimming World and Swimming Technique magazines. He launched one of the world's earliest swimming websites, swiminfo.com in 1995. In 1992, Rodrigues was named U.S. Masters Swimming Coach of the Year.