

The Effortless Swimming Podcast
Brenton Ford
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.
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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.

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.


