Swimming Gear and Workouts for Triathletes

Jennifer Heiner combines a passion for running with her business skills as retail director for a New Jersey running company. Managing the company’s four retail locations, she helps control inventory, hire new employees, and ensure day-to-day operations run as smoothly as possible. Jennifer Heiner also provides coaching services and assists with the five races her company hosts each year.

Outside of work, Ms. Heiner stays active in her local running community. She maintains membership in New York Road Runners as well as USA Track & Field. As part of her activities with these and other organizations, she has participated in and organized group runs, including training events to prepare participants for the New York City Marathon. In addition to her love of running, Jennifer Heiner utilizes swimming as a great method of cross training for her running activities, and is even planning to participate in a triathlon in the near future.

There are so many great speed workouts to do in the pool to in order to get stronger in the pool. To get started, you’ll need some basic gear, including goggles, a swim cap, a kick board, and a pull float.

The kickboard is a great tool to work on your kicking, while not using the arms, and the opposite is true for the pull float; it stays between your legs, so that you can’t kick, and using your arms only.

Most pools are 25m or 50m, and most waterproof sport watches will track your activity in the pool, and you can set your watch to track based upon the length of the pool you are in.

Today’s workout included the following:

1000m warm up; 6 x 50m pulls; 50 easy; 200m x 4; 50 easy; 6 x 50m pulls; 50 easy; 8 x 50m; 200m easy cooldown.