Eliminate Your Fear of Open Water Swimming

In today’s podcast episode, we welcome back our favorite swimming expert, Brenton Ford from Effortless Swimming. He is someone whose opinion and advice around swimming technique, analysis, and stroke improvement is one we hold in the highest regard. 

We always love having him on and he always provides such great insight because he has such a wealth of experience coaching so many athletes individually with their stroke improvement, and technique to basically help athletes swim faster. 

Swimming is one of those frustrating sports where the harder you try you don’t necessarily swim faster and so that’s why this technique side of things is so important.

Timestamp:

00:00 - Introduction

04:00 - How to Tackle the Fear of Open Water Swimming

05:45 - Pack Swimming

08:55 - The Bubbles

10:30 - Starting Small

14:30 - Techniques to Overcome the Natural Fear

17:00 - General Principles

20:30 - How to Face Anxiety

26:30 - It’s Okay to Float

30:30 - Open Water Techniques to Train for

34:10 - Sighting: Keep It Straight

37:30 - How to Train in the Pool

40:00 - How to Increase Stroke Rate

43:38 - Open Water Drills on the Pool

45:20 - Optimal Swim Volume

49:30 - Swim Intensity Training

56:20 - Avoiding Injury from Training

59:30 - Creating Balance in Swimming

1:00:45 - Swim Training Ratio

1:04:40 - 3 Most Common Mistakes to Improve

1:09:00 - Effortless Swimming Coaching Process

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