What Are Athletes Saying About Finding Freestyle?
- "I went from 4:29 to 4:14 in 12 weeks. (6 weeks was 4:22) I did bruise my ribs in week 9 and had to take a couple of weeks off. I am very excited as my swimming has kept me off the overall podium in local events. I still have a lot of work to do, but this has given me the foundation to improve."
- Dean Cook, online course, early 2011 - "Best money I've ever spent for any type of coaching... it'd cost a couple of grand to go to an intensive swim camp and probably not produce the same type of results as the FF method."- Larkin Carter, 10th in Age Group, Ironman Canada 2010.
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money I've spent on the sport...and I'm not a new triathlete. I've been
in the sport since the early 90's. They could double their price and I'd
still make that statement.
- Ron Gierut, Finding Freestyle member since Fall 2010 - I did my 6 week 300 yd swim this week and saw a great deal of improvement. I used to do a little over 275 yds during our monthly 5 min swim for masters. My time for the 300 this week was 4:37. I've been trying to get better for 8 years now. I've done Total Immersion, worked with many fine coaches, but this seems to be making a difference.
- Nick, joined Finding Freestyle Fall 2010 - Something just felt different in the water today during my warm-up. I can't explain exactly what it was, but I felt the stroke in my back, not just my shoulders. I could hear the speed change in the sound of water slipping past my ears. I finished the warm-up and decided I'd try to hang on to that feeling while throwing down a 100 for time. 1:08.5 for a 3.5 second PB! Backed that up a couple minutes later with a second effort in 1:08.7 and knew it was no fluke. The whole
workout went that way and I think it will become the "new normal" as this program just continues to deliver.
- Greg Nelson, Joined Finding Freestyle in Fall 2010, dropped from 4:27 - 4:04 for 300 yard TT in first 12 weeks.
- ...in 6 weeks [the program] took 1 minute off my 1.2 mile swim. I went from 30.5 minutes to 29.5 minutes...Raced an Oly a week ago and was 11th overall on the swim with a 20:36 ...Came in 7th overall for the race ... [out of about] 400 athletes.
- Zach Pratt, Finding Freestyle eBook Test Group
- A month ago, I swam an Aquathon (1000 meter swim/5k bike) and my swim time was 17:18, and last night, in much choppier conditions, I swam a 16:09...For several weeks now, [my] tempo intervals are WAY easier to hit. I have gone from a rather high RPE and barely hitting the time, to a fairly easy RPE and hitting the wall and thinking "Whoa! I need to slow these down." :) I am coming in too fast on them now and have to consciously slow myself down.- Fast50,3x Kona qualifier. 10th@Kona in age group, 1st in age group at California 70.3 (2010),USAT 2xAll American.
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"As a former age-group swimmer, I found swimming later in life boring and monotonous. It was hard to get motivated to practice. Amazingly, you have made swimming interesting for me again. I am now eager to get into the water and work at it. You have given me a completely fresh way to think about technique and efficiency, and I have been able to incorporate new things into my swimming even at this stage. I think it’s really true that you can teach an old dog new tricks!
- Kim (a self-described "plain ole sprint/Olympic age grouper of ever-increasing age").
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"On 6/26/10 I raced the Tri The Parks Indian Springs sprint race as a Clydesdale. I did this race 1 year ago. The swim is 600 yards. I cut my swim time by 1:18 or 13 seconds per 100. I came out of the water fresher than the prior year. I ended up 2nd in the Masters Clydesdale, losing out to a 40 year old. I was the oldest Clydesdale at age 56.
- Mike Raab, Finding Freestyle eBook Test Group.
Experience Finding Freestyle in Group Classes (in Richmond, VA)
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