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Effortless Swimming

Brenton Ford

How To Swim | Swimming Technique

sports & recreation professional

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How To Change Your Technique For Wetsuit Swimming

Effortless Swimming ·

2013/01/11

What changes should you make to your technique if you’re wearing a wetsuit compared to swimming without a wetsuit? Well if you’ve got a good wetsuit then the chances are you’ll be swimming higher in the water than you normally are. 0:14 – Good Wetsuit = Swim Higher 0:25 – Create less Drag With a […] The post How To Change Your Technique For Wetsuit Swimming appeared first on Effortless Swimming.

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3:03

How To Develop Hip-Driven Freestyle Technique

Effortless Swimming ·

2013/01/07

Over the holidays, I gave a friend of mine The Mastering Freestyle Program for him to try. Now in 4 sessions he dropped his time from a 1:40 down to 1:36 for his 100 meter pace. And dropped his stroke count from 42 down to a 34. 00:11 – 1:40 down to 1:36/100m pace 00:15 […] The post How To Develop Hip-Driven Freestyle Technique appeared first on Effortless Swimming.

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5:20

How to Continually Improve Your Swimming

Effortless Swimming ·

2012/12/17

Welcome to swimming news this week; this week we talk about the importance of consistency, why you should get flexibility tested and I have a back stroke and a breast stroke tip for you. 00:21 – Is Your Training Consistent? 01:22 – Flexibility Testing 02:25 – ‘World’s Best Swimmer’ Now Free 02:58 – Supercharging Your […] The post How to Continually Improve Your Swimming appeared first on Effortless Swimming.

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3:55

How To Pull With A High Elbow

Effortless Swimming ·

2012/12/13

Welcome to swimming news this week. This week we look at how to pull through with a high elbow, where to enter your hand in freestyle and also we’ll talk about my favorite mindset training that I find most effective for better performance in racing. 0:45 – How To Pull With A High Elbow 0:57 […] The post How To Pull With A High Elbow appeared first on Effortless Swimming.

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#15 Why Usain Bolt Travels With a Chiropractor...

Effortless Swimming ·

2012/12/13

On this episode of Effortless Swimming podcast, I have Koe Davidson who is a swimmer with me at PowerPoints and he is also a chiropractor. I have been seeing Koe for the last couple of weeks about a sore back, but going in to get that treated I have had a lot more come out […] The post #15 Why Usain Bolt Travels With a Chiropractor (featuring Koe Davidson) appeared first on Effortless Swimming.

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Triathlon Swim Sets For Better Racing

Effortless Swimming ·

2012/12/05

This week’s triathlon news we are going to talk about how you can simulate a race in training so that you improve your performance and improve your results in your triathlon swimming races. 00:24 – Initial Speed and Fine Rhythm 01:30 – Fartlek 02:15 – Broken Swim at Race Pace All these types of workouts […] The post Triathlon Swim Sets For Better Racing appeared first on Effortless Swimming.

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#14 The One About Epic Races (with Trent Grimsey)

Effortless Swimming ·

2012/12/04

Trent Grimsey is an open water swimmer, he is an Australian team member and most notably he has recently broken the English Channel world record. He went 6 hours 55 minutes, breaking the old record by 2 minutes and 50 seconds. We chat to Trent about the Channel swim but also his training, technique and how he avoids injury doing so many km’s in the pool. The post #14 The One About Epic Races (with Trent Grimsey) appeared first on Effortless Swimming.

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4:14

The 80:20 Rule, When to Use Fins, Lead the Lane

Effortless Swimming ·

2012/12/04

This week we look at the 80:20 rule, why you should always aim to lead the lane, when to wear fins in training and we also have details about our Melbourne Workshop which is being finalised for Saturday 8th December. We also chatted to Trent Grimsey who is the English Channel world record holder so […] The post The 80:20 Rule, When to Use Fins, Lead the Lane appeared first on Effortless Swimming.

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5:56

How to Choose a Wetsuit With Craig Percival from...

Effortless Swimming ·

2012/11/28

How it works is the more you spend, the more floatation you get and the more flexibility you get. The Helix has a 1mm arm and then lots of cuts and different shapes. Whereas with Sprint, it’s just a very basic suit. 00:10 – How to Choose a Wetsuit 00:39 – Does the Distance of the […] The post How to Choose a Wetsuit With Craig Percival from Aquashop (Melbourne) appeared first on Effortless Swimming.

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1:53

Is There A ‘Secret Sauce’?

Effortless Swimming ·

2012/11/26

This week we will look at – “Is there a secret sauce to become a better swimmer”. We’ve also got a technique workshop coming up in Melbourne which we’ve got the dates to watch out for at the end of this video. 00:17 – Is There A “Secret Sauce”? 00:51 – Why The Fundamentals Don’t […] The post Is There A ‘Secret Sauce’? appeared first on Effortless Swimming.

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How’s Your Head Position?

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2012/11/21

https://svpford.wistia.com/medias/gs61y7pahh?embedType=async&videoFoam=true&videoWidth=640 We are in Trinity Beach up at North Queensland on a training camp; hence the nice background. This week we are looking at a common mistake that slows swimmers down in freestyle. We are looking at which GPS is best to use if you are doing open water swimming and we also look at […] The post How’s Your Head Position? appeared first on Effortless Swimming.

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4:13

How To Avoid Getting “Gassed” In A Race

Effortless Swimming ·

2012/11/13

Welcome Effortless Swimmers to another week of Swimming News. This week we look at what to do if you are getting gassed quickly in your races. How to have more energy for the second half of your race. We also give you some sprinting tips that will help bring down your 50m and your 100m […] The post How To Avoid Getting “Gassed” In A Race appeared first on Effortless Swimming.

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5:12

How to Maintain Your Swim Pace in a Triathlon

Effortless Swimming ·

2012/11/08

Welcome to the first triathlon news video. Today we’re going to cover a couple of things including what you can do to maintain the same pace in a triathlon, how you can best warm up for a triathlon so you don’t take a few hundred meters to get into it and we’re also going to […] The post How to Maintain Your Swim Pace in a Triathlon appeared first on Effortless Swimming.

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4:28

Do You Breathe Like This In Freestyle?

Effortless Swimming ·

2012/11/05

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 in […] The post Do You Breathe Like This In Freestyle? appeared first on Effortless Swimming.

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3:43

The Two Biggest Kicking Mistakes

Effortless Swimming ·

2012/10/29

We look at how to improve your kick, we’ve got a sprinting tip if you’re a 50 or 100m swimmer, and we’ll look at getting back to basics and what that can do for you. Now with kick, there’s two main mistakes that I see made. 00:16 – The Two Biggest Kicking Mistakes 00:47 – […] The post The Two Biggest Kicking Mistakes appeared first on Effortless Swimming.

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3 Ways To Swim Faster

Effortless Swimming ·

2012/10/23

In swimming news this week we look at 3 ways to improve as a swimmer, how to cut seconds from your times with a better streamline, what to do if you’ve got sore shoulders from swimming. We also ask – do you need the perfect conditions in training to improve? And we also show you […] The post 3 Ways To Swim Faster appeared first on Effortless Swimming.

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#13 Fixing Injured Shoulders (with Luke Van Every)

Effortless Swimming ·

2012/10/23

Swimmers clock up 1,000’s of laps in the pool every year. Our shoulders cop a lot of the brunt of this. Luke Van Every is known as ‘The Shoulder Guy’. He’s a physio from Queensland, Australia. In this podcast I ask Luke about: Common swimming shoulder injuries How to avoid and treat shoulder injuries Do’s […] The post #13 Fixing Injured Shoulders (with Luke Van Every) appeared first on Effortless Swimming.

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4:51

Forget About Stroke Count

Effortless Swimming ·

2012/10/16

Forget about stroke count. Now why would I say that when I talk a lot about stroke count and so do most other coaches? Well, the fact of the matter is that very few swimmers, only about 1 in 20 actually do stroke count. Now stroke count is when you are counting your strokes for […] The post Forget About Stroke Count appeared first on Effortless Swimming.

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Why Swimmers Have A Bad Training Session

Effortless Swimming ·

2012/10/08

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 off […] The post Why Swimmers Have A Bad Training Session appeared first on Effortless Swimming.

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2:32

The Distance Trap

Effortless Swimming ·

2012/10/02

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 session […] The post The Distance Trap appeared first on Effortless Swimming.

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