How To Find Your Ideal Stroke Rate For Triathlon And Open Water Swim Races

Do you know what your ideal stroke rate (cadence) is for racing events of 1,500-4000m? This set will help you find your stroke rate sweet spot for races of those distances. What’s the set? 7 x 100 Freestyle with 0:30 secs rest – Using a FINIS tempo trainer, increase your stroke rate by 4 each […]

2-Beat, 4-Beat or 6-Beat Kick?

Which type of kick should you use? A 2-beat kick, 4-beat kick or 6-beat? In this video, we’ll show you what type of kick pattern could help your speed and efficiency in freestyle. Transcription: Welcome back to the Effortless Swimming YouTube channel. In today’s episode, we’re looking at a two-beat versus four-beat versus six-beat kick. […]

I Analyse My Own Stroke

All right. So let’s take a look at a video I recorded in July. This was after a few weeks off and just getting back into the season. Now one of the things that I’ve always done is come up too high in the extension phase of the stroke. If we look at this position […]

Which Breathing Pattern Is Best?

Hi Brenton Ford here, welcome to the Effortless Swimming YouTube Channel. This video is about how often you should breathe and what breathing pattern you should use when you’re swimming freestyle Let’s break it down between training and racing, to me they’re two different things. In training, what I recommend to my swimmers is every […]

Can’t Bilateral Breathe? Sync These Together

Hey, YouTubers. Welcome back to another video. This is on breathing, if you ever have trouble breathing to your opposite side, then this video might be the way that you can fix it. We’re going to look at exactly what you can do in your freestyle to make sure that you can comfortably breathe to […]

Fun Drill For Fixing Breathing

Hi! Welcome to the Effortless Swimming YouTube Channel my name is Brenton Ford. This video is about breathing we’ve done quite a few of these in the last couple of weeks and there’s a lot to it. In this video, I want to show you a good principle to maintain your posture and your alignment […]