Eliminate Your Fear of Open Water Swimming

In today’s podcast episode, we welcome back our favorite swimming expert, Brenton Ford from Effortless Swimming. He is someone whose opinion and advice around swimming technique, analysis, and stroke improvement is one we hold in the highest regard.  We always love having him on and he always provides such great insight because he has such a wealth of experience coaching so many athletes individually with their stroke improvement, and technique to basically help athletes swim faster.  Swimming is one of those frustrating sports where the harder you try you don’t necessarily swim faster and so that’s why this technique side of things is so important.   Timestamp: 00:00 - Introduction 04:00 - How to Tackle the Fear of Open Water Swimming 05:45 - Pack Swimming 08:55 - The Bubbles 10:30 - Starting Small 14:30 - Techniques to Overcome the Natural Fear 17:00 - General Principles 20:30 - How to Face Anxiety 26:30 - It’s Okay to Float 30:30 - Open Water Techniques to Train for 34:10 - Sighting: Keep It Straight 37:30 - How to Train in the Pool 40:00 - How to Increase Stroke Rate 43:38 - Open Water Drills on the Pool 45:20 - Optimal Swim Volume 49:30 - Swim Intensity Training 56:20 - Avoiding Injury from Training 59:30 - Creating Balance in Swimming 1:00:45 - Swim Training Ratio 1:04:40 - 3 Most Common Mistakes to Improve 1:09:00 - Effortless Swimming Coaching Process If you want to learn how to TRAIN SMARTER and RACE FASTER, you can join our weekly coaching email, just go to: getfastpodcast.com Some of you might already be in there, but many of you won’t be and so this is our official invitation for you to come and join our free community: www.facebook.com/groups/trivelocoaching Check us out on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/trivelocoaching/ Disclaimer: The Content in this podcast is in no way intended to be medical advice, treatment or diagnoses. None of our Content is intended to imply that any products mentioned, remedies or information provided are intended to prevent, diagnose, cure or alleviate a disease, ailment, defect or injury or should be used for therapeutic purposes. The Content is intended to assist you with running, cycling, swimming or triathlon and should not be substituted for medical advice by your healthcare professional. We do not accept any liability for any injury, loss, or damage incurred by the use or reliance on our Content.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.