The Effortless Swimming Podcast

My guest today is Jeff Grace from Swimming Specific Yoga. Jeff has been in the podcast before. Now he is coming back to talk more about body awareness, mobility. preparation and many more. 02:26 Moving Better With Yoga 04:55 Body Awareness in Overhead Movements 06:55 Thoracic Mobility 08:18 Increasing Thoracic Spine Mobility 12:36 Rock Not Roll 13:21 Cross-Body Connections 15:05 How You Perform Drills Is More Important Than How Many Drill You Do 17:04 Activation and Relaxation 18:44 Effortless Effort 23:10 The Breath 26:02 Preparation

My guest today is Bevan Mckinnon. He is a coach at Fitter Coaching and he hosts a podcast called Fitter Radio. Bevan coaches multiple pro triathletes who have won several Ironman and 70.3 Distance Events. He has also won the Age Group World Championships in Kona and other long course events. In this episode, we are talking about some of the lessons that he has learned over the last several years of coaching and how they might apply to triathletes and swimmers who are looking to get better at swimming. 8:41 Environment And Coaching 9:57 Being An Objective Coach 11:27 Coaching Pros and Age Groupers. Is There A Difference? 12:47 Art of Coaching And The Science of Coaching 14:56 Teaching Teachers How To Teach 18:21 Giving The Athletes The Power To Decide 27:52 Swim Chute 33:40 Increasing Stroke Rate Finding The Right Resource

In todays episode, I want to go over an article that I was sent recently by Bevan Mckinnon who host the podcast Fitter Radio. I thought it is going to be worhtwhile going over this article that he sent because when I first read the title and when I read the first couple of paragraphs, it kind of got my hackels up a little bit, thinking that this is not right but as I continue to read through it, I found myself agreeing to most of this. 1:50 This Isn't Right 2:49 Drills Change Certain Aspect Of The Stroke 3:14 Knowing The Purpose Of The Drill 4:17 Making It As Simple As Possible 5:32 YMCA Drill Progression 10:36 Make Sure You're Doing The Drills Correctly

Joining us in this episode is Kris Martenstyn from Singapore, who had some great results from the 5 Day Catch Challenge that we recently run. He will talk about the improvements he has seen and what he may have changed about his stroke to get these results.1:02 Swimming Background 2:56 Bringing In The 5 Day Catch Challenge Into My Workouts 4:19 The Entry 9:09 It Was Good To Come Back To Basics 12:00 Good Technique And Relaxation In The Water 15:33 Stick To The Routine 16:39 Swimming Makes You a Better Runner 17:58 Going Forwards 19:39 Achievement UnlockedPUT the 5-day catch link

My guest today is Quang Pham who recently had a significant improvement with his swim time. I thought it would be useful to have him share what he has done to improve. Listen to this episode, you might pick a couple of things that you might implement on your own. 1:40 Benchmarks 04:29 What Made The Difference 5:48 Swimming Has Become Easier 7:18 What Works Best For Me 8:37 What Got Me Into The Pool 12:00 The Next Step 13:59 Having A Structure 15:52 Initializing The Catch With The Ring And Pinky Finger

Joining us in this episode is Trey St. John whom I have been working with for a couple of months. Trey recently joined a triathlon and couldn't believe that he clocked in a sub-24 minute time. Join us as Trey talks about what he thinks contributed to this significant change. 00:47 Swimming Background 1:55 I Needed To Start Swimming 3:19 Watching Feedback Friday Videos 5:38 Fitness Is There But No Technique 6:03 I Really Wanted To Qualify 8:44 I Started Seeing Improvements 12:07 Using A Different Pair Goggles Right Before The Race 14:47 Consistency. Strength Work. Coaching 18:30 Using Bands 22:08 Providing Stroke Analysis Online 25:02 Awareness In The Water 25:22 Small Changes Can Make A Huge Impact 26:50 Preparing For Open Water Swimming 28:49 Open Water Sighting

My guest today is Hollie Buerckner who just completed a 100km around the bay, starting from Port Melbourne finishing in Sorrento. Join us in this podcast as Hollie shares her experience during that 5 day swim. 4:52 Having a great support system is important 7:27 Unlucky Weather 8:28 First To Last Day Experience 13:47 Struggles 21:59 Block Negative Thoughts 26:30 Swimming With Your Old Self 31:11 Everything Comes To An End 33:56 Expand your Comfort Zone 40:10 Post Swim 48:50 It's Not About Winning, More on Improving Yourself

My guest today is Chung-Haun Li who has been on our Stroke Analysis Membership for 12 months. I have asked Chung-Haun to guest in our podcast to share his story and improvement for the last 12 months because he's had a pretty significant improvement with his time and technique. 01:14 12 Months Ago 02:29 I Didn't Know What's Wrong With My Stroke 05:03 " The Only Thing That I Know Is That I Am Slow And I Didn't Know What To DO" 08:19 Improving My Balance 11:55 Improving My Stroke Rate 15:42 Your Threshold Speed Is Just A Percentage OF Your Top Speed 19:41 Planned Work Out 20:51 Frustrations

Rebecca Hollingsworth recently swam across the Cook Strait. In this episode, she talks about how her preparation, training, and experience on that swim. 00:40 It's Supposed to be 23km 2:23 Training While Waiting For Another Window 5:00 Doing A Tandem Swim 8:42 Not Slowing Down 9:28 Cold Adaptation 11:08 Fuelling 14:35 After The Swim (Mental Toll)

My guest today is John Hancock, the most recent person who successfully completed the Lake Taupo swim. 00:46 Lake Taupo 02:29 Deciding To Cross Lake Taupo and How Long is The Preparation 05:34 Is 2 Month Preparation Enough? 08:27 "As Long As You Can Keep Moving, You Will Get There" 09:53 Recovery 12:16 Thoughts While for 14 Hours 16:49 Positivity v.s. Dark Thoughts During The Swim 23:39 After The Swim 28:39 Swimming With Squad John's Swim Report: https://www.dropbox.com/s/eug07sqzhortyvm/210315-Taupo%2040.2%20swim-compressed.pdf