#414 : The Breathing Fix That Dropped My Time 12 Seconds with Brenton Ford

Brenton Ford· Host0:00

So she practised this for four weeks. She sent me another video after those four weeks, and the difference was dramatic. Her head stayed low, her breathing was clean and relaxed, and her hips stayed horizontal. No more swimming uphill, and her time, a minute thirty-six per hundred. Twelve seconds faster, same fitness, same training volume, just better breathing mechanics.

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[upbeat music] Welcome to the Effortless Swimming Podcast, the show that helps swimmers and triathletes love the water, become a better swimmer, and live a better life. Here's your host, Brenton Ford.

Brenton Ford· Host0:30

I watched a swimmer fix one breathing mistake and drop 12 seconds per 100 meters in four weeks. Not four months, four weeks. She didn't change her fitness, she didn't add more training volume, she changed one specific thing about how she breathed, and that single change took her from a one forty-eight per hundred to a one thirty-six per hundred. I'm gonna show you exactly h- what she changed, why it worked, and how you can apply the same fix in your next swim. And this is one of the most common breathing mistakes I see in age group swimmers and triathletes, and it's costing you massive amounts of speed. She came to one of our coaching calls a few months ago, and she'd been swimming consistently for over a year, training three times a week, and followed a structured program, and she was doing everything right, but her times weren't improving. She was stuck at one forty-eight per hundred and couldn't figure out why. When she swam, she felt like she was working incredibly hard, so her heart rate was high, her breathing was labored, and