The Effortless Swimming Podcast

Ranell Hobson is the Coaching Director at The Academy of Sports Speed. She will share her experience in working with athletes at The Academy of Sports Speed and how their teachings cross over to all types of athletes. 01:00 - Skills, Functional Movement, Elasticity, Power and Mechanics of The Sports 02:15 - Athletes' Underdeveloped Skills 03:19 - The Bad Effects of Sedentary Lifestyle to Athletes 11:50 - Explosiveness of The Blocks 17:01 - The Shift to Being Leaner 18:50 - The Forward Propulsion in Running 19:53 - Restriction in The Hips = Decrease in Running Performance 27:20 - Survey Says... 33:00 - Drills? Some more drills? 36:01 - The Importance of Individual Training

Meredith Atwood is the creator of Swim Bike Mom a website dedicated to give motivation to women across the globe to women who are doing triathlon and those who are looking to get into triathlon. 01:00 - Take Us Back To 2010 03:28 - Today is the first day of your life. What are you going to do with it? 04:12 - Meeting An Alien 06:00 - Me Love Cookies! 11:22 - From off The Couch to Ironman 15:40 - The Purpose. The Plan. The Process. 16:45 - Why Sense of Humor is Important 20:21 - Swim. Bike. Run. 22:40 - Do What You Want in The Body You Have 28:36 - The Bliss of Feeding Your Body With Good Food To learn more about Meredith and her work, visit her website www.swimbikerun.com

Andre Obradovic has been our guest before where he talked about how you can adjust your sleeping routines and habits so you can perform better in the pool. In this podcast, Andre and I discuss how he went from overweight white collar worker to lean athlete, by challenging his own beliefs about nutrition. 02:00 – Andre's Journey to Weight Loss 03:00 – When Hunger Strikes 06:50 – The Food Diary Debunked 09:55 – 1 Minute Videos of What I'm Eating 15:05 – One of the guys lost 10 kilos! 19:05 – Why would we need chocolate drink? 19:34 – How To Create That Snowball of Feeling Better 20:09 – Eat this instead for breakfast. 21:19 – Have a salad for lunch. 27:01 – Shut up and take my money! To learn more about Andre and his work, visit his website www.loseyourbelly.com.au

Race Pace Training is about swimming at or quicker than your racing speed. It's often done in short intervals (eg 25m or 50m) with enough rest between intervals to recover and hit race speed on the next one. On this podcast Garrett McCaffrey, coach at the Phoenix Swim Club, joins me as we chat about how to best include this type of training in your workouts (and if it's relevant to you!). He's just released a 12 week Race Pace Training program ideal for age group or Master's swimmers and coaches. We're also joined by Chris Ritter, a strength and conditioning coach to Olympic swimmers and a guest on one of the most well-received podcasts we've done – listen to it here. 03:30 – What is race pace training? 09:05 – When a Swimming Technique Drops Off 09:20 – The Muscle Memory 10:11 – Finding a Way To Keep The Speed 13:19 – How do you deal with change? 17:28 – The Correlation of Age and Speed 18:00 – Why Race Pace Training Makes Physiological Sense 22:14 – Race Pace Training & Vegetables 28:13 – The Importance of Structure in Directing The Work 30:48 – The Race Pace Training 2.0

Nam Baldwin is the owner and Director of Performance at the Equalize Training Company. Nam is an emotional and stress control & management specialist, the co-developer of internationally recognised B.E.T Training, mentor and motivational health coach. He has worked with a number of Olympic Gold medalists and several world champions including professional surfer, Mick Fanning. We talk about strategies he used with Mick Fanning to help him win the J-Bay Open after overcoming a shark attack at the same event in 2015, plus a whole lot more. 01:57 – One of The Most Impactful Talks I've Been To 02:14 – "Whatever happens to you, use it." 02:28 – Working with Mick Fanning 08:15 – Breaking down the process… 15:18 – Step 1: Oxygenate 15:27 – Step 2: Hydrate 15:35 – Step 3: 3-Minute Workout with Music 15:59 – Step 4: Appreciate 16:01 – Step 5: Anticipate 25:58 – Just do this one thing… To learn more about Nam Baldwin and his work, visit www.equalize.com.au

Luke McIlroy is the Director of Sport Science at METS Performance Consulting. Luke helps athletes perform their VO2 Max test. Find out what their lactating flexion point and their resting metabolic rate. Knowing these will help you train more scientifically and be more effective with the workouts you are doing. If you train 10 hours a week instead of 15, then, you'll have more time to spend with you family, rest and recover. In this podcast, we talk about how you can avoid the grey zone and how you can be more effective with the time you spend training.

Simon Griffiths is the founder and publisher of H2Open Magazine. H2Open Magazine is a magazine about open water swimming and everything that incorporates races and swims around the world. Simon will be sharing: his experience about open water swimming his recommendations about the best places to swim around the world to do open water swimming and races the rabbit hole in open water swimming and where the sport is going

In this episode of the Effortless Swimming Podcast, our guest is David Samuelsohn. David is coach and founder of Westchester Masters Club in Larchmont, New York. David wrote an article Lose the Limp for a More Powerful Freestyle so in this podcast we'll talk about that and how to make adjustments in your breathing and rotation to get more power from your stroke the key principle he includes in every work out common freestyle errors and how he corrects them plus more...

In this episode of The Effortless Swimming Podcast, we have Eric Neilsen. Eric Neilsen is a multisport coach and consultant who works with athletes of all abilities from novice to professional, by providing personalized services that empower clients to achieve their full athletic potential. Eric will be sharing about how he got started coaching, a few tips about triathlon training and the ABC's of optimal health and training.

My guest in this episode of The Effortless Swimming podcast is Karlyn Pipes. She is one of the top 10 Master Swimmers of all time and a multiple record holder in all 4 strokes in Masters Competitions.