Do You Breathe Like This In Freestyle?
http://media.blubrry.com/effortlessswimming/s3.amazonaws.com/effortlessswimming/Podcast/Swimming-Podcast-20.mp3 This week we look at your head position when you breathe in freestyle and how you change it to make it make your stroke more efficient and faster. We also give you a diving tip which will help you get off the blocks quicker. And we also look at exercises that you can do […]
Why Swimmers Have A Bad Training Session
http://media.blubrry.com/effortlessswimming/s3.amazonaws.com/effortlessswimming/Podcast/Swimming-Podcast-15.mp3 There’s usually three reasons why your training times are off if you’re not swimming well in training. And that is either you are sick, fatigued or inflexible. And I just want to focus on the third one for the moment: the inflexibility. Now it’s usually one of the main reasons why swimmers’ times are […]
The Distance Trap
http://media.blubrry.com/effortlessswimming/s3.amazonaws.com/effortlessswimming/Podcast/Swimming-Podcast-14.mp3 Don’t get caught in the distance trap where you’re more focused on how far you do in a training session than what you do in a training session. Unless you are training for the English Channel, an ironman or a long distance event, then you are better off focusing on what you do in a training […]
#11 The One About Smooth Swimming (with Paul Newsome from SwimSmooth)
Paul Newsome is a knowledgeable swim coach who has: won the British University championship in triathlon; swam the English Channel and coached and worked with Olympic swimmers and triathletes
#2 Improving Your Technique (with Terry Laughlin from Total Immersion)
Download the transcript We chat with Terry Laughlin from Total Immersion. Terry has developed a method of improving your swimming that has helped hundreds of thousands of swimmers and triathletes worldwide to swim smoother. He’s an expert at helping people fix the weaknesses in their stroke so they can move naturally through the water with […]
Why freestyle should NEVER be called front crawl!
The best way to save energy in swimming freestyle is to rotate from side to side. We rotate for a few reasons. It is important because it reduces the amount of drag our body creates in the water. Does it waste energy going side to side? It does and it doesn’t. Rotation does use energy […]
