The Effortless Swimming Podcast
Faster times and better technique aren't a guarantee when you train hard. What really makes a difference to your speed and efficiency in the water? The Effortless Swimming podcast helps make a complex sport really simple to better your swimming. We cover open water swimming, triathlon swimming and pool swimming. Hosted by Australian National swimmer and coach Brenton Ford.
Latest episodes
Aug 6, 2015 • 42min
#48: Straight Talk with Sara McLarty
In this episode of the Effortless Swimming Podcast, we have Sara McLarty. She is a professional triathlete and a swimming coach based in Clermont, Florida. In December, I’ll be with Sara running the swim section at the Triathlon research Camp in Florida with Gwen Jorgensen and her coach Jamie Turner.
Jul 23, 2015 • 36min
#47: How To Swim Fast When You're Not A Swimmer with Bevan Mckinnon
In this podcast, I'll interview Bevan McKinnon. Bevan is an elite level triathlete, a triathlon coach and co-host at Fitter Radio – a podcast that features professional triathletes and triathlon coaches.
Jul 23, 2015 • 10min
#46: 4 Mistakes To Avoid In Your Workouts
In this podcast, we'll be looking at mistakes to avoid when doing your workout...
Jul 16, 2015 • 3min
#45: Why You Run Out of Breathe at The End of Your Lap
In this episode of the Effortless Swimming Podcast, we'll find out why you run out of breath at the end of the lap and how you can change it so that you are swimming easier, you are more relaxed and you are not gasping for air every time you touch the wall.
Apr 29, 2015 • 39min
#44: English Channel and Cook Strait Legend Philip Rush
In this episode of The Effortless Swimming podcast, our guest is open water swimming legend, Philip Rush. Philip Rush has completed ten crossings of the English Channel as well as triple crossing. He has the fastest record of two-way and three-way crossings of the English Channel. He has also done the Cook Strait eight times. He’s one of two people to complete a double crossing of the Cook Strait.
Apr 29, 2015 • 39min
#43: Focus On What Matters with Sports Physiotherapist Greg Dea
Our guest in this Effortless Swimming podcast episode is Greg Dea. He is a Performance Consultant and Sports Physiotherapist. He is currently serving at the Northern Territory Institute of Sport as a Sports Medicine Coordinator.
Apr 21, 2015 • 24min
#42: How Triathlon Can Change Your Life with Christian Schwaerzler
Our guest in this episode is Christian Schwaerzler, a triathlete who attended our Melbourne Freestyle clinic. He is an author, corporate coach and a speaker. Christian weighed 135 kgs five years ago and he is now down to around 75 kgs. He lost 60 kgs as a result of changing his lifestyle, diet and exercise. He finished the Melbourne Ironman recently and training for another race in Zurich this year
Apr 8, 2015 • 1h 14min
#41: How To Develop Speed, Strength and Power with Wayne Goldsmith
Speed, strength and power is crucial to high performance swimming. Wayne Goldsmith has worked with Swimming Australia and Triathlon Australia and shares his top strategies to generating more speed in your swimming. We also talk about different types of training methods, different tools you can use in your workouts.
Mar 3, 2015 • 23min
#40: First Out Of The Water with Clayton Fettell
In this Podcast, Clayton Fettell talks about technique, strength training, some of his favorite workouts and how he sees swimmers being able to breakthrough their speed barrier and really take that next step with their swimming.
Feb 28, 2015 • 1h 28min
#39: The Complete Athlete with Andrew Read
In this Podcast, we are going to talk about how Andrew Read sees strength and conditioning playing a part of endurance sports, goals versus systems, the process to building strength up for someone who’s just beginning, the habits that have the biggest impact on health and the right approach to health, fitness and well-being.
