The Effortless Swimming Podcast

This week's podcast features Jason Hamilton as our guest. An athlete and triathlete who I met during Hell Week last year in Thailand, Jason joins us to speak about his journey as a swimmer, and how he trained to qualify in the World Championships. We cover topics such as winter swimming locations, using structure to keep yourself focused while training and exactly what made Jason swim faster. Join us as we reflect on progress and setting goals as a swimmer. 02:20 – Jason Hamilton. 04:00 – Qualifying for World Championships. 06:00 – What makes you faster. 07:12 – Nathan Shearer 11:00 – Structure to keep focus. 13:14 – Ongoing goals. 15:00 – Winter training locations.

In today's episode, We are joined by Angela Naeth who is a professional triathlete. If you are someone who enjoys thinking and reflecting on your sport, your life and things around that, I think you will really enjoy this episode. Angela is a very genuine person and she is someone who has done a lot of thinking and reflecting on her own over the past eight years that she has been racing triathlon. We talked about some ways that she has overcome anxiety around racing and performing, something that she dealt with in the early days of her triathlon career. She also mentions a book that she has read five or six times that she has been able to use and get a lot from when it comes to becoming a fearless and competitive racer.

There are some beliefs that will help you and there are some beliefs that are keeping us from achieving our full potential. Ask yourself. What are the beliefs that are holding me back?

We are joined today by Vicky Tate who has recently swam the 40 kilometr crossing of Lake. Earlier this year she made a crossing and she is one of less than a hundred swimmers who have completed the crossing. She came along to Hell Week last year, our Hell Week camp in Thailand and this was something that prepared for the swim. Join us we talk about her experience. 00:30 From Not Being Able to Swim a "K" to a 40 km Straight Swim 02:01 The Only Thing That Is Going To Stop You Is You. 04:58 Techniques Taken From Hellweek. 07:57 How Was It Like Mentally? 09:09 Swim Pacing In Lake Taupo 10:30 Motivation During The Swim 12:33 "Don't Look Forward and Don't Look Back" 13:36 Singing Songs And Counting Your Strokes 19:50 Feed During The Swim 22:08 Lake Taupo 27:28 Our Mind Can Get Accustomed Quickly 34:37 The Help Of The Community

Our guest for today's Episode is Bevan Mckinnon who has been in the triathlon scene for over 15 years as a coach and as an athlete. Here are the topics discussed: 05:09 Intermittent Fasting 08:35 Ketogenic State 11:29 Training while Fasting 21:34 The Satisfaction in Coaching 38:10 Speed Reserve 39:59 Zero To Hero To know more about Bevan Mckinnon, please visit: https://www.fitter.co.nz/

My guest today is Andrew Ho-Peng who is from Dexa Melbourne. Dexa is a body composition scan that tells you about your bone density, visual fat levels, lean muscle mass and a number of other things. It is a really good way to check in with your health and well being. Listen as Andrew explains what Dexa does, who is it best for. 01:37 How Did Dexa Started? 04:07 Types of Clients that Avail Dexa. 05:33 Metabolic Health 08:11 The Focus of Dexa. 10:36 Dexa as a Motivation

If you ever wondered how you should fuel for a marathon swim, then this podcast is for you. My guest for today is Tara Diversi, who has experience in long-distance swimming. She swam the English Channel and the Rottnest Channel and a number of other long-distance swims. She works closely with a handful of people every year to help them leading to their marathon swim. She works with them to help them get their feeding and fueling right on the day but more than that is looking for the best approach that works for them. In this episode we talk about: 03:09 Tara Diversi background 05:01 Things to consider when deciding on the Feeding Plan. 07:39 Freestyle stroke affects food digestion. 09:29 Fat versus Muscle. 10:54 Keeping the core temperature up. 16:43 Trial and Error. 19:32 The concept of Multiple Transportable Carbohydrates. 22:28 Training your Gut. 28:32 How do you put on more fat without killing yourself

In this episode, we talked about the things I have learned from chatting up with the Rottnest Channel Swim 2018 winners, Solomon Wright and Heidi Gan. Leading up to the race, both of them encountered some obstacles, however, I believe they were able to rise above the situation because of these three things : -Going by Feel/Intuitiveness -Sustained Pace Work -Experience

Today's episode is the Rottnest Swim Recap. We've got the winners Solomon Wright and Heidi Gan who won the male and female section in both record times. Solomon just went under 4 hours and Heidi went 04:21. We've got them on the podcast today talking about their lead up to the race, how they fueled, their pacing, their strategy and you will also hear that both of them have a little bit of interrupted lead-up. We go into detail about what they did to combat that and how they managed to put 6-weeks of training in to still get a good result. We also have Lisandra de Carvalho on the podcast, my friend who has been in the earlier episodes, we talked about how we went to the race and how we found it. Here some points that we have talked about. Solomon Wright -Solomon's injury before the race. -Going for the "Rotto Feel" -Feeding on the Race. Heidi Gan -Rottnest swim compared to 10k marathon swims. -Having a slow pace at the start. - Feeding Strategy -Flu Before the race. Lisandra de Carvalho -The swimming community -Conditions during the race -The Swim Results -The Mental Battle

Our guest in today's podcast is James Fletcher who has a background in Physiology. He has recently moved into Breath Training for athletes. He has worked with elite level swimmers such as Cameron McEvoy and James Roberts who both have been in the Australian Olympic Team. We talked about his specialization which is a very scientific and measured approach to enhancing your ability to breath. On this episode we discuss: 02:01 James Fletcher's background and Cirque du Soleil. 05:00 Breath Training 7:05 Differences in Breath Training between a 50-meter sprinter and a 10k swimmer. 13:21 The Foundation of Fletcher Method. 19:41 Frequency of the Breath Training Programs 21:23 Difference from other Breath Holding Method. 24:54 Pre-Race warm up for Inspiratory Muscles.