
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

Jan 20, 2015 • 1h 7min
#38: Triathletes In Motion with Marc Evans
Marc Evans recently finished his book “Triathletes in Motion”. In his book, he’s covered having better movement patterns and better stability through your hips and core and improving your posture. Traditionally, the focus of swimming and triathlon is volume, intensity, training periodization and doing a particular work out the right months or weeks leading up to a race. But, what if you could improve your performance without logging the extra distance in the water or on the road? That’s what we’ll cover in this episode!

Jan 5, 2015 • 46min
#37: Superhero Swimming with Eney Jones
Eney Jones is a successful Master’s swimmer, open water swimmer and accomplished triathlete. She lives and works in Boulder, Colorado and has worked with many of the top triathletes to help them improve their swimming. We talk with Eney about technique, posture, tempo, catch and pull, open water racing tips and awareness in the open water. This episode is one you shouldn’t miss!

Oct 4, 2014 • 21min
#36: How To Take 15 seconds off Your 100m Pace with Paul Bailey
In this episode of the Effortless Swimming podcast, we have a good friend of mine - Master Swimmer Paul Bailey. He will talk about how consistent training and continual focus on technique has helped him improve his time.

Sep 22, 2014 • 1h 10min
#35: Brenton Ford On The Triathlon Research Podcast
This podcast is my interview for the Triathlon research Podcast interview with Sam Cook. Here, we will go into more details of the triathlon, the psychology, training and the effort that goes into it. If you’re a triathlete, I’m sure you’ll have some great takeaways from this podcast!

Aug 11, 2014 • 23min
#34: How To Win A Double Ironman Event with Rait Ratasepp
Our guest for this episode of The Effortless Swimming Podcast is a member of Swimprove - our swim coaching community - Rait Ratasepp. He just completed the Double Ultra World Cup in Hungary. What that is, is a double ironman. So think of ironman and double the distance. He did extremely well and ended up winning this event by about 3 hours. In this podcast, we will cover his training, the things he focused on for his swim and what are some of the workouts that he did.

Jul 11, 2014 • 24min
#33: The Zen Of Swimming with Jon Muller
In this episode of The Effortless Swimming Podcast, I am going to interview my friend, Jon Muller. In the last couple of weeks, he finished writing a book about swimming which explains and describes it in a way that hits the nail on the head. Jon explained how most swimmers and triathletes feel when they get in the water. So in this podcast, Jon will explain how he came about in writing his book - The Zen of Swimming...

Jun 18, 2014 • 20min
#32: How To Get Started In English Channel Swimming with Chloe McCardel
In this episode of The Effortless Swimming Podcast, we have Chloe McCardel. She is a 6-times solo English Channel swimmer. I would like to talk about how you can get started in channel swimming because unless you know someone who has done it before, it is very hard to get started and know what to do.

May 28, 2014 • 48min
#31: How To Unlock Extra Speed Using Your Mind with Julie Robinson
In this episode of The Effortless Swimming Podcast, I am talking to Julie Robinson. She is an elite level swimmer and today we will talk about mind training for swimming and how it fits into swimming puzzle.

Apr 9, 2014 • 21min
#30: The One About Why Carb Loading Is B.S with Steph Lowe
In this episode of The Effortless Swimming podcast, my guest for the third time is Steph Lowe - The Natural Nutritionist. We will talk about the truth about carbohydrate loading before your race week.

Mar 18, 2014 • 41min
#29: The One About Yoga and Mindset with Mark Breadner
In this episode of The Effortless Swimming podcast, our guest is Mark Breadner. Mark has done a lot of work with the Australian team in relation to some strength and conditioning work, some mindset training. Mark is going to talk about that and how you can implement it into your own swimming and triathlon training to help improve your performance.