Effortless Swimming

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...

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 .

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 Swimmin...

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 .

When it comes down it, sport is more than just a physical battle. Five minutes of speaking with performance consultant Wayne Goldsmith and you get a sense of just how important the mental side of it is. Wayne's worked with dozen sports bodies and clubs from all over world. In this interview you'll discover The post #12 The One About Improving Performance (with Wayne Goldsmith) appeared first on Ef...

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 The post #11 The One About Smooth Swimming (with Paul Newsome from SwimSmooth) appeared first on Effortless Swimming .

Sam Sheppard is one of Australia's best open water competitors. Whether it's 1km or 10km, Sam is a fierce racer and a smart swimmer. In this interview we cover The post #10 How To Win In Open Water (with Australian Open Water swimmer Sam Sheppard) appeared first on Effortless Swimming .

Months of hard work go towards one big race. Long hours in the pool, thousands of kilometers and tens of thousands of arm strokes...all for a few minutes of racing. In this episode we talk with Sam Ashby (who features in the Mastering Freestyle program) about what do 3 weeks out from a big meet. He talks about the stages of tapering (tapering is where you reduce the intensity of your training lead...

Being the second female and second Australian to complete a double crossing of the English Channel, Chloe McCardel is one of Australia's best marathon swimmers. She's won the prestigious 46km Manhattan Island race and is now gearing up for a triple-crossing of the English Channel The post #8 The English Channel Episode (with Chloe McCardel) appeared first on Effortless Swimming .

Download the transcript As you train more often you realise that injuries are common if you don’t do something to prevent them. Sports physio Justin McEvoy has been away with the Australian swim team treating elite swimmers such as Ian Thorpe, Grant Hackett, Michael Phelps, Roland Schoeman plus dozens of other high profile athletes. In this […] The post #7 The One About Injuries (With Australian S...

Wowza, what an episode! We managed to pry former world record holder and Olympic champion Michael Klim away from his busy schedule for an insight into his comeback. After a number of years out of the pool Michael decided to pull on the speedo's for another crack at the Olympics, training for the 2012 London Olympic Games The post #6 The Comeback Episode (with Olympic gold medallist Michael Klim) a...

Our first US guest is a current world record holder and backstroke champion. Peter Marshall reveals how he broke three world records in backstroke. Like a lot of age group swimmers, Peter started out doing lots of miles in the pool. He was a distance swimmer in his early years but converted to a sprinter after making some changes to his training. In the podcast he chats about what changed in his p...

Download the transcript In this episode we look inside the mindset and training regime of top level sprinters. Our guest, Olympic butterflyer and freestyler Andrew Lauterstein talks about: The feeling of being in an Olympic final, the pressure and nerves before a race and he breaks down his 100m butterfly final in the 2008 Beijing […] The post #4 Sprinting Power (with Olympic medallist Andrew Laut...

We take a look into the world of marathon swimming. What motivates distance swimmers to do the huge miles week in week out? How do they prepare for big races? We talk with the 45km Manhattan Island swim world record holder, Oliver Wilkinson about: Training for distance events and the number of kilometers he does weekly leading up to a big race What he eats the night before to 'carb load' and how h...

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 […] The post #2 Improving Your Technique (with Terry Laug...

 Download the transcript of this podcast Welcome to the Effortless Swimming podcast! In the first episode we chat with Olympic backstroker Ashley Delaney. He reveals: How he got started in swimming by accident The one thing he changed in his diet to drop two kilos in weight and start swimming faster times in training Small […] The post #1 How to have more energy at the end of a race (featuring Oly...