Effortless Swimming

Uncovering The Breath Training Secrets Used By Olympic Swimmers with James Fletcher James Fletcher joins us in today’s podcast to discuss breath training techniques for athletes. With a Physiology background to his name and previous time spent working with members of the Australian Olympic Swimming team such as James Roberts and Cameron McEvoy, James Fletcher’s […]

With over 25 years of experience working with the highest level of athletes and sporting clubs all over the world, we welcome back Wayne Goldsmith, to discuss working with children and the role of parents in swim training.One of the most passionate sports performance experts throughout Australia, New Zealand, and the world, Wayne has been […]

I’ve known Grant through mutual friends for a quite a while. He is a Triathlon coach and to me, he is one of the best coaches that teaches and coaches a lot base on Mindset, Intuitiveness, and Beliefs. In the podcast, we talked about a lot of different topics from How to Change your Structured […]

Gary Hurring is a former Olympic swimmer and coach from New Zealand who has been featured on our podcast previously in episode #90called “How to Change your Technique from an Olympic Coaches Perspective”. Gary and I are running a swim camp in Hawaii in March for swimmers, triathletes and open water swimmers to improve their technique, […]

Let’s welcome back Lisandra de Carvalho as we talk about how to train for 10km+ swims. Lisandra has swum the Rottnest channel on numerous occasions and she has been my training partner these past few months in preparing for the Rottnest Swim this year. Join us as we talk about the things that are essential […]

There are times when we get confused on what to prioritize. In today’s podcast, we talk about how it is beneficial to prioritize the bigger things first such as technique, focus, and mindset. Moreover, giving time also for smaller rocks such as strength training, diet, and mobility.

Swimming can be compared to driving a car. In today’s podcast, we share with you about going from manual mode to automatic. When training, we like our swimmers to be in the manual mode where they really need to focus so that they can coordinate these little elements together.If you can practice that in training, […]

One of the analogies we like to use in swimming is the laser vs the lantern approach. Which approach should you use? Listen as we talk about the importance of having a laser approach in your training.

In this podcast we share to you why generalized coaching style doesn’t work for most swimmers.

When you train, do you feel like you only have one speed? In this podcast, we share with you on how you vary your pace in training, on how to shock the system.

Most of the propulsion will come from the catch. We have worked with more than 1300 athletes and we have observed that most of them can impove on their catch.

How long does it take you to warm up in training? We share our favourite pre-training routine to improve shoulder stability and reduce the chance of injury.

Flexibility. Technique. Fitness. The list goes on… How do you know if you’re working on the ‘right’ things in your swimming? Join John Mullen from SwimmingScience.net and I on the latest podcast where we explore: – John’s ‘needs analysis’ process and how he determines what to focus on with each swimmer – Strategies for enhancing your […]

This podcast episode is from the audio of our Facebook live and we talk about my consolidated thoughts on what most triathletes and open water swimmers can do to swim faster this 2018. Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/effortlessswimming/

We discuss how the concept of domino effect can be helpful in the obstacles that you are facing. Listen and you will learn how identifying that initial or smaller dominoes can be beneficial in knocking over bigger dominoes.