Spring is here and it is finally getting warm enough for outdoor swim workouts!  And because KT Tape stays on in water, nothing can hold you back from working out in the pool!  Alex Kostich fromActive.com gives ten tips for speeding up your swim pace to get you out of the slow lane this summer:

With the triathlon season under way and upcoming open water races in our collective anticipatory consciousness, athletes everywhere are beginning to ask themselves a common question:

How do I get faster?

It is a question whose answer remains elusive, confounding both the weekend warrior as well as the athletic elite.

When it comes to swimming, there are lots of ways to improve your speed. Whether the end result is avoiding the end of the pack in the first leg of a triathlon, or achieving a personal best time at a Masters meet, no one will hesitate about committing to self-improvement.

But if the means of getting there are as simple as a basic checklist of things to do, it may require even less work than you had initially thought!

While there are infinite ways to get faster — some complex and others surprisingly obvious — the following list of 10 ways to gain speed in the water will help you achieve a season of success.

You may already be practicing a few of these ideas, but if there are a few on the list that you haven’t considered, then now is the time to try. Let the racing season begin!

1. Improve Your Technique

Many triathletes are forever resolved to the fact that they learned to swim too late in life, and therefore will never be as strong in the swim portion of their race as their swimming-background counterparts. With a shrug of the shoulders, they struggle through Masters workouts with rudimentary (or just plain bad) technique, swimming because it is a necessary evil and figuring they will make up for time lost on the bike and the run.

You can’t make up for lost time; once it’s gone, it’s gone. So why not make the best of your swimming leg and learn to swim correctly? It could mean a3rd May 2011, Back To News, Print This Article