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#218: Back to Basics with Brenton Ford (Kieser Podcast: Healthy to 100)

The Effortless Swimming Podcast

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Open Water Swimming - Head Position in the Pool

Head position is very individual. There's not one right position for everyone. I often encourage my tr athletes and open wortimers to look somewhere in that upper range, close to forty five degrees forwards. That way you've got better awareness round what's happening in front of you. So i don't feel like you have to look straight down, because you'll often feel a bit more comfortable if you can look slightly forwards. And the next step in try to build or correct techni then another thing we look at is alignement in the water. One of the things we want to try and do there is what we call swim on train tracks. As in, if you imagine you

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