How To Stop Your Legs From Sinking In Freestyle
Water is almost 800 times denser than air. If your legs are sinking when you swim, you’re making things much harder for yourself. When we do video analysis for athletes in the Effortless Swimming Membership and at our freestyle clinics, one of the first things we look for is the heels breaking the surface every couple of kicks. […]
Why You Run Out Of Breath
You can run forever… Your bike fitness is exceptional… But each lap of the pool leaves you gasping for air like Houdini after a breath hold. Have you ever wondered why this happens even though you’re a fit person? There’s three main reasons this happens: if you hold your breath if your body position and balance is incorrect […]
Why We Don’t Change A Cross Over Kick
One of our mantras at Effortless Swimming is that there is more than one way to swim freestyle. Making everyone swim with the same style doesn’t take into account their body type, height, strength and natural swimming ability. Like we teach in The Art Of Triathlon Swimming some athletes are better suited to a different type of freestyle […]
Are you pulling with a pole or paddle?
Can you imagine a rower trying to move if you cut off their paddle at the end of their oar? Pulling just the shaft (pole) through the water without the paddle wouldn’t get them far. But this is what many swimmers do everyday… At our recent freestyle clinics in Brisbane and the Gold Coast we got to see just how […]
Escape From Shawshank
Becoming a better swimmer is like Andy Dufresne escaping prison in The Shawshank Redemption. For the next couple of years, you’ll be spending 3+ hours a week in the pool. You could pass this time like 99% of the prisoners in Shawshank and wait for it to be over, or you can start digging like […]
How To Achieve A High Elbow Position In Freestyle
The most important flexibility test that we have our athletes undergo is streamline test (aka combined elevation test). It’s the best indicator of a swimmer’s ability to achieve a high elbow position during the pull phase. The video above has been taken from the Art Of Triathlon Swimming – watch as Australian swim team physio Helen Walker […]
