Maximize Your Training
As a triathlete, you dedicate hours from your busy schedule for training. Learn how to maximize this training time by focusing on economy and efficiency of movement. In this time-limited world, you need to utilize every training minute to its fullest to fulfill your athletic potential. Let us show you how.
Join us for a private swim lesson or week-long camp and begin learning the skills required to develop to your full potential both physically and mentally. The mental aspect of this sport is as critical to a successful outcome as being physically prepared. We focus not only on posture and balance, but also on your attitude and approach to your training.
Learning to put the whole picture in focus can be tough: training, racing, work, family, friends, personal time, nutrition. We use a cognitive approach to racing: teaching you how to set realistic goals, develop a race strategy, and understand the nutrition required to maintain your training schedule and to excel at the race. And you'll also learn how to enjoy yourself in the process.
Celeste St. Pierre, owner of TriathlonSkills.com offers swim and triathlon clinics throughout the year and is also available for virtual triathlon coaching as well as swim coaching. She has also created the popular Women Venture Camps where women triathletes of all ages and abilities come together to learn new skills and have fun.
Contact us today at 603-616-7125 or to learn more about our services. We're here to help you race faster tomorrow.
Are You Ready For The 2010 Triathlon Season?
Even in northern New England, spring is finally beginning to arrive and with it brings thoughts of increased training. Be sure to include swim skill work as part of your spring-time training. Check out our schedule for a list of upcoming events and our store to register for clinics, camps, and coaching. Or, give Celeste a call at 603-616-7125.
Women Venture Triathlon Training Camp
Our Women Venture Triathlon Camp for 2009 was a great success! Everyone had a wonderful time and we have the pictures and testimonials to prove it:
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New for 2010!
We are expanding our venue for the Women Venture Camp for 2010 to include Southern Maine! Our dates for Women Venture Camp 2010 are:
Maine: July 12-16, 2010
New Hampshire: August 23 - 27, 2010
The Women Venture Camp in Maine will be held at the Southern Maine Community College in South Portland. This 80-acre campus overlooks Casco Bay and has access to Willard Beach, the only beach in South Portland. It is also home to the Spring Point Ledge lighthouse and the Shoreway Arboretum. These amenities combined with full residence halls and complete athletic facilities make it a perfect triathlon camp venue.
As in 2009, the New Hampshire venue is in the beautiful White Mountains on Lake Winnipesaukee at Camp Robindel. At both venues, you'll enjoy four days of great training and comraderie, while you focus on your swim, bike, and run skills. The camps also feature sports psychology, strength training, Pilates classes, massage sessions, and tips on nutrition.
The all-women staffed camp features Total Immersion swimming with Celeste St.Pierre, build skills for the bike with 2000 Olympian, Nicole Freedman, learn to run efficiently and effortlessly with ChiRunning led by Ann Margaret McKillop, perfect your strength training technique with Sarah Crane, work on sports pyschology for your next race with Carrie Cheadle, and enjoy a relaxing massage at the end of the day with Edith deBruijn-Solinsky.
The Women Venture Camp is a great way to meet other women triathletes, learn or perfect your triathlon skills, and most of all have fun!
Registration pricing is as follows:
- $870 for the Maine camp, $25 of which goes to the Maine Cancer Foundation
- $745 for the New Hampshire camp
There is a limit of 30 campers for each 4-day camp; sign up early to ensure your spot.
For a complete schedule of the camp activities as well as pictures of the venues, check out the NH - Women Venture Camp page or the ME - Women Venture Camp page.
Sign up for these camps in our store or call Celeste at 603-616-7125 to register by phone and save $20.
Swim Clinic - Northern York County YMCA, Biddeford, Maine
Join Celeste for 5 Sundays mornings from January to May and work on your swim skills for next season. This clinic will help to be come a more relaxed and confident swimmer. Read more about the clinic or register for it in our store.
Swim Lessons
Tuesdays and Thursdays at Loon Mountain Resort in Lincoln, NH and Fridays at the Laconia Athletic & Swim Club in Laconia, NH. Also, lessons are now available by appointment in Massachusetts at the Burbank YMCA in Reading, MA.
Call today to set up your one-hour or half-hour private swim lesson. Call Celeste at 603-616-7125 or email 
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Also be sure to check our Schedule for the complete list of our swim and triathlon training events.
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Celeste at Total Immersion Swim Clinic at Maho Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands
Celeste enjoyed a break from the New Hampshire weather at a Total Immersion Open Water Swim Clinic in Maho Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands in January 2010. Celeste is with Laura Tiedge, a TI coach from New York, and Terry Laughlin, the creator of Total Immersion.
These next two photos show Celeste at her first Winter Triathlon of 2010, which features run, bike, and cross-country skiing. She finished 4th women overall -- way to go, Celeste!
Open Water Swimming
Watch this quick video to see Celeste St. Pierre demonstrate open water swimming using Total Immersion technique.
Be sure to scroll down to the bottom of this page to see more videos.
Customer Testimonials
"I have had the good fortune of working with Celeste for several months now. With thoughtful and expert instruction, she has brought an efficiency and fluidity to my swim stroke resulting in faster times with less effort!! What a joy! As I approach my first Ironman [Ironman Lake Placid] this summer, I have a new sense of confidence, and am looking forward to the challenge ahead. Thank you, Celeste! Onward!! - Kim Cole, Kennebunk, ME
"This past year our triathlon club had the pleasure of working with Celeste to develop a swimming workshop for our members. The success of our program is shown in so many ways but a couple of situations stand out. There are the two women who signed up for the 'learn-to-swim' class. They had never been in water over their head. After one hour, they were swimming. At the end of the class they swam the length of the pool. One women is registered for her first triathlon this summer.
Then there is our tri club member that has been taking swim intruction in a masters swim program at a local college, but she wasn't getting faster. So she signed up for the Total Immersion Swim class with Celeste. Her swimming was more relaxed, less exhaustive and she was faster. Her old coach told her that her swim stroke wasn't correct and got her to change back. Her swim times went down with the old stroke. So now she is back to the Total Immersion swim stoke she learned from Celeste and she is swimming efficiently.
There are so many people who have stopped me to tell me how much they have enjoyed the class. They are swimming in an effective and comfortable way. Their swim times are down and they are covering more distance with less effort.
Then there is my personal experience of learning a very effective swim stroke. Then losing that stroke for a while from lack of proper practice. Then with just one lesson, Celeste worked me back to the basics and my effective and correct stoke has returned. My only complaint is that Celeste is so popular with our tri club that I can't get a lesson!" - Chris Ebbrecht, Kennebunk Beach Tri Club, Biddeford, ME
"Celeste is an accomplished mentor. The combination of her unsurpassed knowledge, positive reinforcement and humor was just the thing I needed to train for my 2 swims across Squam Lake. Celeste is a joy to work with and I can guarantee your swimming technique will be transformed!" - Wendy Van de Poll, MS, LMT
"I enjoy that I feel relaxed on the swim, yet according to my swim times, I am holding a good pace. Before training with Celeste, I didn't think that the swim could be my favorite part of a tri." - John Monhagan
"Celeste has an instinctive feel for the water and more importantly, the person. Though she is on the side of the pool, it seems that she is also right in there with you. Her instructions are based on a keen awareness of what you are experiencing and each session feels like a series of breakthroughs in improving my stroke." - Rosemarie deMars
" I believe I am mostly a kinesthetic learner, so actually practicing and attending the camps are most helpful to me. However, I do feel the videos [seeing herself on videotape] really augmented my learning. The timing of the weekend camp video was crutial... we had the time to sit in the room and watch each other [and] hear you critique others. I really liked the comparison of the camp video with us and then you; I feel like I can study the way it is supposed to look and visualize this when in the water. " - Kathy
Video Clip - Celeste Open Water Swim with Terry Laughlin - Total Immesrion
Here Celeste is swimming with Terry Laughlin (author of Total Immersion technique -- in the yellow cap) at the Total Immersion Open Water Swim camp in Maho Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands in January 2010. Notice the synchronization of their relaxed strokes, the stillness of the water and how close to one another they are.
Video Clips - Celeste Swims Freestyle
Here are three video clips of Celeste St. Pierre swimming freestyle using Total Immersion technique. Notice how Celeste is quiet in the above water views and in the underwater view, she is parallel to the water's surface, not swimming "uphill" (a common problem). You can get a video of yourself swimming freestyle, just like this. See our schedule of events for more information.
Above Water - Side View
Above Water - Front View
Under water