The Effortless Swimming Podcast

Marquest joins us in this podcast episode to talk about his early struggles when he started swimming.

01:02 Swimming Background
9:00 Doing Half Ironman
09:30 I Gotta Start With Something
16:52 But Swimming
25:53 Signing Up For The Stroke Analysis
35:53 Kicking Hard
44:18 Climbing Up A Mountain
47:10 It's Not Comfortable But I Am Not Dying

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My guest today is Ari Klau and he is a professional triathlete who started only at the beginning of this year. He essentially came from no swimming background at all and he is gotten to a point now where he swimming very well for someone who doesn't have a background in swimming. His background is running, he was an NCAA runner and that is particularly his strength but he is a very good cyclist as well. On this podcast, we explore what he is going through in the last year in terms of how he started with his swimming, where 's is he at now, and some of those things he has worked on and focused on with his technique to get to where's he at now. Enjoy!

 

3:15 Swimming Background
7:27 Start Of Training
9:38 Training Mindset
13:25 First Half Iron Man
16:04 Feel The Water
18:52 Finding The Balance
19:48 Making Some Changes
24:00 Video Analysis
26:35 Focusing On The Catch
30:21 Reaching The Minute Mark
42:21 "Feel For The Water"
46:44 Breathing

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My guest today is David Tilbury-Davis. You might know him, you might not. He is the former coach of Lionel Sanders, he coaches a number of professional triathletes, he is one of the most highly successful, highly experienced triathlon coaches out there at the moment. He has been coaching for the last 26 years, he has worked with Olympic athletes, Commonwealth Games athletes, and a lot of age-group and professional triathletes. Enjoy.

 

04:54 Coaching Long-Term Athletes

08:26 Neurological Fatigue

13:42 Descending Set

19:30 Testing Overall Improvement

24:01 Resilience

29:25 Developing Technique

39:39 Openwater Swimming

41:15 Developing Openwater Swimming Skills

43:14 Safety

51:16 Risk Assessment Instincts

http://www.tilburydavis.com/
https://www.instagram.com/coachtilburs/

 

Direct download: 210_LIBSYN.m4a
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