Effortless Swimming

By Brenton Ford

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May 10, 2017 The Importance Of High Standards In Coaching And Life with Brian Ford
Swimming coach Brian Ford has been Head Coach of the Traralgon Swimming Club since 1997. More importantly, he is my dad!
Not only is he an accomplished swimmer and coach who has had athletes go on to make Olympic and National teams, he is one of the best developers of people, culture and discipline.
If you want to learn about the importance of discipline, enthusiasm and being a people person, listen in as my dad shares his life lessons and expertise as a seasoned swimming coach.
04:58 – Meet Brian Ford
07:50 – Why reputation is important.
08:55 – When to Draw The Line Between Being a Coach and Being a Parent
16:00 – Micromanaging vs Delegating
22:41 – Basic Principles in Dealing with People
30:45 – On Being Careful with Who You Hang Out With
33:30 – “Every opportunity is an opportunity to give as much as you can.”
35:30 – This is the way I am as a coach…
38:17 – Why It’s Okay to Coach with a Lot of Enthusiasm
40:20 – To Care or Not to Care?
Applications are now open for Hell Week. To learn more about this, visit effortlessswimming.com/hellweek
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44min
April 21, 2017 Mastering Your Mind Games with Meighan Julbert
Meighan Julbert is a Mental Skills Consultant for The MindSide – a sports and psychology center located in Alabama. She has worked with a number of athletes from different sports like softball, golf, swimming, soccer, and others.
This podcast is perfect for those who has performance anxiety and to those who feels like their mental state has let them down during competition.
01:53 – What’s going on in your head?
07:16 – How To Build The Mindset of Confidence
10:40 – The Importance of Not Looking for What’s Missing
12:12 – The Strategies to Help You Focus on The Right Things
15:28 – Everyday you have a choice.
25:13 – Michael Phelps: Epitome of An Athlete with a Strong Mental Game
26:00 – Everybody has a panic moment.
30:13 – Why You Need to Identify Upfront Something That Went Well
33:19 – Truth: The Athlete is His Own Expert
39:14 – “I want to conquer the world.”
To learn more about Meighan and her work, visit www.themindside.com
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45min
March 31, 2017 How To Develop Explosive Speed with Ranell Hobson

Ranell Hobson is the Coaching Director at The Academy of Sports Speed. She will share her experience in working with athletes at The Academy of Sports Speed and how their teachings cross over to swimmers and triathletes.
01:00 – Skills, Functional Movement, Elasticity, Power and Mechanics of The Sports
02:15 – Athletes’ Underdeveloped Skills
03:19 – The Bad Effects of a Sedentary Lifestyle
11:50 – Explosiveness off the blocks
17:01 – The Shift to Being Leaner
18:50 – The Forward Propulsion in Running
19:53 – Restriction in The Hips = Decrease in Running Performance
27:20 – Survey Says…
33:00 – Drills? Some more drills?
36:01 – The Importance of Individual Training
To learn more about Ranell and her work at The Academy of Sports Speed, visit academyofsportspeed.com
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42min
March 21, 2017 Becoming A Lean Athlete with Andre Obradovic
Andre Obradovic has been our guest before where he talked about how you can adjust your sleeping routines and habits so you can perform better in the pool.
In this podcast, Andre and I discuss how he went from overweight white collar worker to lean athlete, by challenging his own beliefs about nutrition.
02:00 – Andre’s Journey to Weight Loss
03:00 – When Hunger Strikes
06:50 – The Food Diary Debunked
09:55 – 1 Minute Videos of What I’m Eating
15:05 – One of the guys lost 10 kilos!
19:05 – Why would we need chocolate drink?
19:34 – How To Create That Snowball of Feeling Better
20:09 – Eat this instead for breakfast.
21:19 – Have a salad for lunch.
27:01 – Shut up and take my money!
To learn more about Andre and his work, visit his website www.loseyourbelly.com.au
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33min
February 17, 2017The Best Places to Swim with Simon Griffiths
Simon Griffiths is the founder and publisher of H2Open Magazine. H2Open Magazine is a magazine about open water swimming and everything that incorporates races and swims around the world.
Simon will be sharing:
his experience about open water swimming
his recommendations about the best places to swim around the world to do open water swimming and races
the rabbit hole in open water swimming
and where the sport is going
01:36 – Why did you start H2Open Magazine?
04:35 – What I love About Open Water Swimming
05:40 – Winter Swimming is Getting Popular
06:32 – Challenge yourself in different ways.
11:23 – Costa Brava, Spain
14:49 – My Favorite Swimming Location in Australia
16:25 – “Too many (swimming) places, not enough time.”
16:30 – Where The Sport is Going
16:55 – Divergence from Triathlon-Style Events
24:08 – Swim-Run vs Triathlon
To subscribe to Outdoor Swimmer Magazine, visit their website http://outdoorswimmer.com/.
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28min
December 13, 2016 The Psychology of Performance with Nam Baldwin
Nam Baldwin is the owner and Director of Performance at the Equalize Training Company. Nam is an emotional and stress control & management specialist, the co-developer of internationally recognised B.E.T Training, mentor and motivational health coach. He has worked with a number of Olympic Gold medalists and several world champions including professional surfer, Mick Fanning.
We talk about strategies he used with Mick Fanning to help him win the J-Bay Open after overcoming a shark attack at the same event in 2015, plus a whole lot more.
01:57 – One of The Most Impactful Talks I’ve Been To
02:14 – “Whatever happens to you, use it.”
02:28 – Working with Mick Fanning
08:15 – Breaking down the process…
15:18 – Step 1: Oxygenate
15:27 – Step 2: Hydrate
15:35 – Step 3: 3-Minute Workout with Music
15:59 – Step 4: Appreciate
16:01 – Step 5: Anticipate
25:58 – Just do this one thing…
To learn more about Nam Baldwin and his work, visit www.equalize.com.au
If you know someone who would love to improve their swimming, then purchase an Effortless Swimming freestyle clinic gift voucher here.
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45min
December 09, 2016 Race Pace Training with Garrett McCaffrey and Chris Ritter

Garrett McCaffrey
Race Pace Training is about swimming at or quicker than your racing speed. It’s often done in short intervals (eg 25m or 50m) with enough rest between intervals to recover and hit race speed on the next one. On this podcast Garrett McCaffrey, coach at the Phoenix Swim Club, joins me as we chat about how to best include this type of training in your workouts (and if it’s relevant to you!).

He’s just released a 12 week Race Pace Training program ideal for age group or Master’s swimmers and coaches.
We’re also joined by Chris Ritter, a strength and conditioning coach to Olympic swimmers and a guest on one of the most well-received podcasts we’ve done – listen to it here.
Chris Ritter
On this episode:

03:30 – What is race pace training?
09:05 – When a Swimming Technique Drops Off
09:20 – The Muscle Memory
10:11 – Finding a Way To Keep The Speed
13:19 – How do you deal with change?
17:28 – The Correlation of Age and Speed
18:00 – Why Race Pace Training Makes Physiological Sense
22:14 – Race Pace Training & Vegetables
28:13 – The Importance of Structure in Directing The Work
30:48 – The Race Pace Training 2.0
Talked about on this episode:
The 12-week Race Pace Training program

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45min
December 01, 2016 How To Train Less And Swim Faster with Luke McIlroy
I’m a big believer in aiming for the minimum effective dose (MED) when training. This means doing the least amount of training for best possible result, where anything extra is wasteful. Think of it like water boiling once it reaches 100 celsius – it doesn’t get more boiled over this temperature.
The reason we aim for this is simple. Overtraining leads to injury, reduces recovery time and isn’t productive if your primary goal is better results in your racing.
Luke McIlroy is the Director of Sport Science at METS Performance Consulting. Luke helps athletes perform their VO2 Max test. Find out what their lactating flexion point and their resting metabolic rate.
Knowing these will help you train more scientifically and be more effective with the workouts you are doing. If you train 10 hours a week instead of 15, then, you’ll have more time to spend with you family, rest and recover.
In this podcast, we talk about how you can avoid the grey zone and how you can be more effective with the time you spend training.
01:10 – What is METS Performance Consulting?
04:01 – The 5 Training Zones
04:40 – How Heart Rate is Related to Training Zones
07:50 – Swimming Clinics and Video Analysis
09:07 – “I’m just an average athlete.”
11:20 – The VO2 Max Zone
15:58 – My Passion for Endurance Sports Performance
18:09 – How Athletes Can Benefit from Testing
19:34 – Have you hit a performance plateau?
21:50 – When You’ll Notice Improvement In Your Swimming
To learn more about Luke and how he can help you improve your performance, visit www.metsperformance.com

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26min
October 03, 2016Losing the Limp with David Samuelsohn
David Samuelsohn is coach and founder of Westchester Masters Club in Larchmont, New York. David wrote a great article called Lose the Limp for a More Powerful Freestyle and in this podcast we’ll talk about that and:
how to make adjustments in your breathing and rotation to get more power from your stroke
the key principle he includes in every work out
the common freestyle errors and how he corrects them
plus more…
01:13 – What I Learned from The Olympics
02:00 – What is The Freestyle Limp?
03:20 – David’s Theory About “Natural Feel For The Water”
06:50 – The last 50…
09:40 – David’s Favorite Set
14:35 – “In order to swim fast, you have to swim fast.”
16:30 – Most Common Freestyle Error
19:44 – Different body types, different strokes…
23:30 – Is it worth pushing on?
23:40 – The Importance of Stress Management
Learn more about David and his work by visiting his Westchester Masters Swimming Association’s Facebook page here… and you can send him a message or email him directly at timeguy(@)gmail.com
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29min
September 23, 2016 The ABC’s of Optimal Health and Training with Eric Neilsen
Eric Neilsen is a multisport coach and consultant who works with athletes of all abilities from novice to professional, by providing personalised services that empower clients to achieve their full athletic potential.
Eric shares how he quit his corporate career to become a full-time coach and how he uses the ABC’s of optimal health and training to change the lives of his athletes.
01:11 – The Shift from Corporate to Health and Wellness
08:45 – The Different Ways to Swim Fast
14:30 – The Nice Transfer of Momentum and Energy
15:00 – The Water Polo Drill
25:44 – Working with Kids and How They are Sponges
31:00 – A Different Level of “Buy-in”
37:50 – Snorkel and Rhythm
43:15 – A is for Adequate Sleep
43:49 – B is for Balanced Nutrition
44:45 – C is for Consistency in Exercise
To learn more about Eric and his work, visit www.coachericneilsen.com
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56min

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The podcast currently has 391 episodes available.