Effortless Swimming

How To Increase Lung Capacity With Swimming

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If you’ve ever wondered why some swimmers could challenge a fish in a breath-holding competition, and others can’t hold their breath long enough to say the word ‘fish’, this might be the most important article you ever read.
Imagine swimming at a faster pace for longer because you learned a simple exercise you could easily practice [...]

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Three Steps To Better Freestyle

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Here’s the first three steps you need to take to swim better freestyle.
1. Constant Kick – You don’t need to have a super kick to be a fast freestyler. In fact, the fastest freestyle girl I coach barely kicks at all. Kick is used for body position and balance more than propulsion in triathlons. Your [...]

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Mastering Freestyle Technique

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My most popular course is the Mastering Freestyle program. If you are sick of hearing the same old tricks and you’re ready to completely revamp your freestyle so it’s easy to swim and you glide through the water like a hot knife through butter, this is for you.
New Drills
In the program I introduce a series [...]

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What Do ‘Chill’ Pills, Upper Bodies and Meditative Breathing Have To Do With Buoyancy?

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Are you sick of feeling like a brick in the water? Do you sometimes think that floating is impossible, and you were cursed with negative buoyancy as a child?

Fear not. Everybody can float. If your big, small, tall or tiny it doesn’t matter. Even if you’re a Hawaiian Iron-man (with NO body fat to be [...]

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How To NOT Swim Faster – Avoiding Success, Training Without Purpose And Being Stuck In Bad Habits

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Swimming is outrageously fun. Powering through the water with effortless speed and rhythm can be a blast. But not every wants that. If that sounds familiar, this article is you for.

Here are 7 quick and effective tips for NEVER swimming faster to avoid success, train without a purpose and stay stuck in your bad habits. [...]

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The Best Example Of Drafting I Have Ever Seen

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I’m often asked by triathletes and open water swimmers if drafting makes a difference.
What is drafting? Drafting is using the wave and current created by another swimmer to help pull you through the water.
Why should you draft?

You conserve up to 15% more energy than when your not drafting
Speed is increased by 3% over 400m
It’s a [...]

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Did you hear about Phelps?

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Michael Phelps has awesome technique. He is the best swimmer in the world because he can travel through the water with speed, but stay relaxed and controlled at the same time (this is key guys’). There is more to Phelps than his technique though. Check it out in the great article by ESPN.
Michael Phelps article
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What Is Your Most Pressing Question About Swimming? (Plus Freestyle Breathing Tip)

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As a swimming coach I’m always asked a lot of different questions about improving technique, increasing speed, learning the correct breathing method, etc.  It got me wondering what the biggest challenges everyday swimmers are having.
If there was one thing which if you could get right, you know your swimming would improve dramatically, what [...]

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Body Position in Freestyle – The 3 Steps to Achieving Correct Body Position in Freestyle

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I wanted to share something with you that I learnt on the weekend from Australian swimmer Sam Ashby. He came along to our Saturday training session and assisted with the coaching on the day. He ran through a number of drills which focused on one hugely important part of freestyle. I worked on this one [...]

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How to Swim Faster – The Little Known Secret Used by Successful Swimmers

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Effective propulsive movements in swimming are performed SLOW to FAST. Unlike other sports such as running or rowing, your arms won’t be moving at a constant speed throughout the stroke. Find out why…

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