{"id":16292,"date":"2022-09-05T11:22:18","date_gmt":"2022-09-05T18:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/?p=16292"},"modified":"2025-06-20T06:29:40","modified_gmt":"2025-06-20T06:29:40","slug":"effortless-swimming-podcast-mental-strategies-to-race-strong-from-start-to-finish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/effortless-swimming-podcast-mental-strategies-to-race-strong-from-start-to-finish\/","title":{"rendered":"Effortless Swimming PODCAST: Mental Strategies To Swim Strong From Start to Finish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently was interviewed for the second time for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/results?search_query=effortless+swimming\">Effortless Swimming<\/a> podcast with Brenton Ford. In this podcast, I discuss mental strategies that swimmers and triathletes can use to have a strong swim start to finish, whether in an open-water swim, swim meet, or in the first leg of a triathlon.<\/p>\n<p>To watch or listen to the podcast, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=1onv2flVo4Y&amp;ab_channel=EffortlessSwimming\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>f you&#8217;re not familiar with <a href=\"https:\/\/effortlessswimming.com\/\">Effortless Swimming<\/a>, it is one of the most viewed (and, IMHO, the best) swimming channels on YouTube. I&#8217;ve been watching Brenton&#8217;s videos since last fall when, because I could only swim after being hit by a car on a training ride, I decided to see if I could make a big improvement in my swimming (up to that point, intensity and distance weren&#8217;t getting me faster). As someone who suffers from &#8220;Adult Onset Swimming Syndrome&#8221; (meaning I didn&#8217;t start swimming beyond knowing how not to drown until I was an adult), for the first time, I understood what it actually took to swim faster (it&#8217;s 80% technique). Following the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/results?search_query=effortless+swimming\">Effortless Swimming videos<\/a> on YouTube, I completely rebuilt my swim technique (I couldn&#8217;t believe how bad a swimmer I had been!) and I&#8217;m now more than 10s\/100y faster than last year!<\/p>\n<p>To watch or listen to the podcast, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=1onv2flVo4Y&amp;ab_channel=EffortlessSwimming\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>P.S. Yes, that&#8217;s me in the image! :-&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently was interviewed for the second time for the Effortless Swimming podcast with Brenton Ford. In this podcast, I discuss mental strategies that swimmers and triathletes can use to have a strong swim start to finish, whether in an open-water swim, swim meet, or in the first leg of a triathlon. To watch or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18738,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1557],"tags":[1626,149,1627,60,96,1034,1039],"class_list":["post-16292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-triathlon","tag-effortless-swimming","tag-mental","tag-open-water-swimming","tag-psychology-2","tag-racing","tag-swimming","tag-triathlon"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16292"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18739,"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16292\/revisions\/18739"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}