This Complete Beginner Blew Me Away

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[@brodysearle]

Thanks for helping me out mate!! I’ll catch you in a month or two to re-do the race 😉

[@Jay_Rule]

I also have problems with my lower half being lower than streamline so I will try the more downwards head placement. I've only been swimming for less than a month and have been going everyday for 1.5-2hrs.

[@hugoapresname]

⁠@@Jay_RuleDetermination though respectable doesn’t make you swim “better”, if that’s whatever you set your aim on. Please always respect yourself! Second last time I had to stop because of being metabolically tired. Something else was going on in my body. Generally first goal I recommend: Try to have fun! You should have a smile on your face when walking to the pool ☺️👍💕

[@hugoapresname]

Very nice progress due to a fair portion of body consciousness 👍 It can’t hurt to try the *Arrow* Technique. Used by at least an Ironman Winner because you conserve a lot of energy from kicking as little as possible with your legs. Many Teachers don’t know it, because they are focused on sprinting a lot. ☺️👍 And try out breathing more(2) Though you are trained and can do with so much Oxygen, another reason is to get CO2 out which reduces acidity in the blood 😌

[@brodysearle]

@@hugoapresname hey thank you!! Do you have any good videos on this technique?? :)

[@jaymueller2418]

Just a plug for Brenton and Effortless Swimming. I’m a 46yo lifelong bike racer working as a doctor now and raising kids. i’m time starved. Started running to save time, got injured, couldn’t really bike, run or walk for fitness so started swimming Dec 2022 anywhere from 2:30-3:00/100. Had terrible problems with my shoulders and decided to seek help. Spent a day with Brenton last year, improvements in comfort were immediate with a path forward on how to adapt to swimming sequentially. It has worked. First two triathlons in Nov with swims at 1:40/100 and full workouts now in the Low 1:30’s/100

[@brisca3301]

😱 Amazing! I am currently 2:00/100 but want to get back to my pre covid numbers. (1:30's/100)

[@HollyDunnDesign]

Wow, Brody's technique is really impressive for a newbie swimmer! I've seen plenty of people who've been swimming a lot longer look a lot less comfortable in the water.

[@flyboymic7182]

Your awesome Brody💪

[@DrJimTaylor]

Loved the episode, Brenton! Brody is obviously a very good athlete because he looks very comfortable in the water. I could also totally relate to his experience. Back in Sept. 2001, after achieving a major marathon time goal, I decided it was time for me to try a triathlon. Being the person that I am, I decided to jump right in and, like Brody, do an Ironman. I grew up in the non-drowning category of swimmers and had never done a lap or breathed to the side before Dec. 2001. I took one lesson and just swam a lot (I wish ES existed back then!). 8 months later, I finished my first Ironman. My swim wasn't pretty, but I got through it. It took me till 2021 to really focus on my swimming (having finally discovered ES!) and work on improving my technique. I'm sure Brody will pick up swimming quickly and crush his first IM. He's fortunate to have your coaching...

[@freboosta]

Loved this video. I took up swimming in mid Nov last year. Had been a National level cyclist for near 30yrs and water was my big fear after a few drownings in the family. As a family we're involved in Surf Life Saving in New Zealand with my 2 daughters being nice swimmers. I struggled to swim 25metres. 50metres was my goal at the end of December, I committed hard and was able to swim for 35mins non stop. Still lots to work on and constantly watching your videos is amazing and only wished you were in NZ to learn from in person. My goal this year is to do a triathlon. 2025 i want to do a half Ironman. Thanks 👏

[@cindyscott8470]

Thanks so much for another amazing video Effortless Swimming. Similar to Brody, tumble turns are key and very tricky. Please show us another video on t turns, thanks.

[@5thman677]

Great stuff. I'm an old guy trying to get comfortable in the water. You taught me a lot of things to work on.

[@oscardelatorre2325]

super cool trainings, thank you for all you doing!!! Cheers from Mexico

[@niconamingisannoying]

He‘ll have so much fun in the water in just a bit! How ever his Ironman challange goes, just to feel comfortable swimming a lot of lapses, is a wonderful thing to learn:)

[@timharmoni1846]

Excellent video. Cheers!

[@stu3232]

Pretty impressive looking stroke for someone new to swimming. He'll be flying in a few months!

[@rachanapottem6465]

Great tips to improve freestyle Coach. Brody definitely looks very comfortable in water for a beginner swimmer.

[@JanGoh-jb5ge]

Head down, hips up is the simplest and most effective bit of swimming advice there is.

[@christophermccarthy6889]

Hi Brenton, excellent video,with your teaching Brody improved so much, he managed to make a vast difference in his technique in just one session , also breathing bilaterally, Well done Brody. BTW so impressed by your swim, What time did you manage for the 50? Thanks for posting 😊.

[@dpmcmanus50]

Thanks for the video! Your tips line up a lot w what my coaches tell me, re body position, rotation, etc. You note that people sometimes have their head too high. I seem to have the opposite issue. coaches have told me that my head is too low -- i.e. buried underwater. The problem arises when i need to breathe since i compensate by lifting my head too high to breathe. Interested in any comments you have on that, thanks! PS I enjoy your podcasts too--especially the interviews with marathon swimmers.

[@bobdillen5641]

Its already been so many years since I watched your videos when I started swimming. I feel like I grew up with you, damn I really start to feel old now.

[@EffortlessSwimming]

You’re making me feel old! 😬

[@goodnatureart]

That is some great change!

[@ccjack431]

Oh my god you really do a very detailed analyze ，if I had a couch like you probably my swim learning process will be mostly effective.

[@SBoots29]

My thoughts would be Brody by tenths of a second. Excellent tips to a newbie swimmer and for me as well. I think it is time I quit bumping the walls and practice some drills. Cheers

[@fuchsiamorpho1783]

@brodysearle-Thanks for sharing your journey. As new swimmer you give me hope and confirmed what I already knew-get in the pool at least 3x a week. How much time do you spend at the pool on your training days?

[@hugoapresname]

Slowing down at the wall 😂 When I stop doing that maybe that would mark my progress from Beginner to Learner 😅😊❤

[@Dimashoey]

You look like brothers!! 🎉

[@-esox-3714]

Trying to learn freestyle swimming on my own for the last 1,5 months I must say his technique looks very good for having started out recently.

[@teelafia]

For someone who has just started swimming for 10 weeks, he’s got huge potential! Well done!

[@Smiding]

The beauty of swimming, technique is 90%, 110% is determination equals 200% effortless swimming

[@ricardo.fontanelli]

dude swims very well for a beginner

[@rosiol_z_wczoraj]

So how much does his pace improved and how long was the session?

[@mindaugaskarla]

I don’t know it I mist it.. but what was the time 100m freestyle at first? And after 10month? I starting to learn swimming and I want to know some frame of time

[@mishazubko8432]

That is AquaPulse in Hoppers Crossing - my swimming pool! :)

[@Am979100]

This is amazing for the pool, however, in a traithlon in open water, you can't really swim with your head all the time? Otherwise there's a massive danger of going off-course or knocking yourself out by smacking into one of your rivals?

[@robohippy]

With the over head view of him swimming, it looked like his body was snaking through the water rather than being a straight line. Pretty much all of the men, in any distance at least, will breath every other stroke. I tried for years to breath on a 3 stroke cycle, and could never make it more than about 100 yards before I went back to every other stroke.

[@RemmySpicy]

What’s the iPad app name please?

[@pablojimenez5736]

How many srokes per pool you do?

[@tobymather9972]

Quite interesting to see Brenton in the water - his head seems to move up and down a lot and is quite raised. Is that normal in racing? Brody's head seems to be more flat in the water than his coach's!

[@reubselsa3947]

My daughter has been suffering with this bone cancer in her lower leg for the past 5 years. It’s horrible. I do triathlon too. Swimming is also my nemesis. What amazing results.

[@aboled]

He's a very good swimmer. Maybe some balance and catch up swimming drills? They will improve his stroke timing. Thanks.

[@xuchenglin6256]

A nice coaching walk through! But I hate to mention that it's still the noob gains... Most fit guys with athletic youth experience would come up more or less the same, especially if they are able to commit enough time in the pool. (most guys with 9-5 work struggles here). The real challenge is after this, how would you be able to bring that 2:00/100m to 1:30/100m then 1:20 or if you are exceptional, 1:15... That's where the diminished return really hits even with the best coach, it might still need years, thousands of hours in the pool, and there's no magic bullet as far as I see. That's the sad hard fact about fast swimming. I don't see a way to escape the mileage. That's my hard learn after all these years for searching "the answer". This is really the example of that old saying in China -- "there are things easy to understand, but hard to execute..."

[@225rip]

Bret were you doing a gallop?

[@tbarrett1984]

Can you have a swim with arms being in the front quadrant too much.

[@user-yv2yf2cc6c]

Brody won

[@jakubsokolowski9283]

I am really wondering how much experience Brody has. His kick looks way too good for a newbie, not to mention his breathing. It might take like 100 sessions for an average beginner to reach this level. How much training was behind Brody when filming this?

[@brodysearle]

Hey mate!! No experience apart from the swimmers you do as an infant. All my technique was from hours in the pool - KZbin, Former professional swimmer colleague and Brenton helping me out in the last 11 weeks 😄

@@brodysearle Maybe I missed it during the video, but how much time was there between your first swimming session and the start of your training with Brenton?

[@brodysearle]

@ 10 weeks as we filmed at the start of week 11. So approx. 30 sessions in the pool prior! Anywhere from 25-35 I’d say!

@@brodysearle Thanks! I’m on my 5th swim session in week 3 since I started swimming first time front crawl. Looking forward to the improvements, the video definitely helped a lot!

[@amitpatilamit]

​@brodysearle wow, just 25-30 sessions to get to this level? It must be coming to you naturally then! I have been working on front crawl for over 3 weeks, and I am still not getting those kicks right. They are perfect when isolated. And the technique just disappears when I try everything together. 😂 I am still struggling to do a perfect 25m. Not a breathing or stamina issue, but sinking legs due to missing kick technique. I hope I can improve in next few weeks.

[@lennylan3223]

Brenton won, but 10 mos?! Incredible

[@tonyshihoutang6576]

I think he didnot use gliding and made him look alittle struggle with each rapid stroke & drill , am I right ?

[@kundang1202]

Do you know some you tubers are using your videos ?

[@kundang1202]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/nYm0oKanmq9nhs0si=PGqF8VjIoUupNa0s

[@thesea4120]

Need timing pads to see who actually won that one

[@Greenmoon413]

Tie

[@deepestbluesea_6351]

That race was too close to call

[@stijndeklerk]

Teach him how to turn & he would have won easily.. Insanely good for e novice..

[@EffortlessSwimming]

that's exactly why I won't be teaching him how to turn 😂

[@artvandele4764]

Brenton, love your analysis! Please ditch the background music, it is distracting and takes away from your message😂

[@bobbybobman3073]

Please tell me this guy has a big endurance/fitness background

[@brodysearle]

Played high level sports in AFL (sprinting and basketball around ages 12-16) my entire junior career mate! Never done any of these three endurance sports, despite 'swimmers' as an infant/kid. But did have a pretty good history in other sports prior to this.

[@EXPLORADVEN]

👌👌👌🏊🏊🏊❤️❤️❤️👌👌👌

[@leslie7922]

Looks like the race was a draw

[@originalmusician1098]

Wow, never swam before, jumps in the pool, has decent body position and catch, and is breathing on both sides. Let's face it, the guy had already been swimming for years and needed to correct a couple of things. nice result though.

[@EffortlessSwimming]

take a look at his earlier videos on his channel, he wasn't swimming like this 11 weeks ago.

[@brodysearle]

Couldn’t swim at all 11 weeks ago haha, was only breathing to one side & hips were super low 😅until Ana Coan (Former Pro Swimmer in Brazil) helped me out twice a week for a fair few weeks, which helped tremendously. I’ll take that as a massive compliment :)

[@originalmusician1098]

​@@brodysearle I'm attempting to not be overly critical, as I truly appreciate your and Brenton's effort and generosity in sharing your story. But here's how the video plays out: * Brody never watched a youtube video on how to swim and had zero instruction. He didn't know he could exhale underwater. Thus, his head was up, and his legs were down creating massive drag. He had never tried swimming before, jumped in the pool, and swam just under 1K without stopping (I.E. 40 laps in a 25 meter pool). * He got on youtube. Watched tons of swimming videos, jumped back in the pool and swam drastically further on his second attempt (80 laps?). * Then he decided to contact Brenton for professional instruction. Brody said he hopes he stops feeling like he's going to drown, giving the impression, this is the third time he's ever swam. * Brenton shoots some video of his technique. Viewers are blown away that he has amazing form for having only swam twice before. For most of us, this would require years of swimming in the local lake twice a year with zero instruction. * So I called BS, and it turns out Brody previously spent time being coached by a former swim champion. Further confusion ensues when he states he couldn't swim at all 11 weeks ago, but this video indicates he's been swimming for 7 months. Look, I'm super grateful to Brenton for putting in all of the hard work and sharing his experience with so many people. IMO, he's the best coach on the Internet. I 100% believe there was no purposeful intention of making a misleading video. It's just that, the way it turned out, from an outside of the fishbowl perspective is much different than I think you guys realized when putting it together. I haven't read the details of your blogged experience, and I'm sure it would clear up my confusion if I did. 😊

[@brodysearle]

@@originalmusician1098 Bit of confusion, I understand that for sure :) ! I know it would take a long time to read/watch my story but I am more than happy to clarify my swimming so far as I am super happy with my progression. It's honestly a really long process and would be a lot for Brenton to put in the video, so I can see how the confusion comes and it is a lot to track. I started my journey 11 weeks ago to become an Ironman in 7 months to raise awareness for Osteosarcoma :)! Hope this clarifies: 1) I had no prior knowledge (apart from swimmers as a kid when you learn too swim) and went for my first swim the same day as to when I got a sponsorship from the local pool. I said in the video "not even a 1/4" - I forgot an Ironman was over 1.9km - was thinking about half Ironman sorry totally my fault). Realised I had no idea what I was doing (clearly) hahaha - then hopped onto KZbin (watched hours of videos by Brenton and GTN). My first week swimming stats were all on strava; 1. 20:53 - 498m, 2. 32:37 - 987m, 40:05 - 1,199m. 2) Following week or two, documented, my physiotherapist colleague, Ana Coan (Former professional swimmer in Brazil) helped me out by jumping in many times, giving me a bunch of drills and technique queues - which I am super lucky to have a free membership as I know I could go to the pool a lot of times to practice this - I did not log my drill sessions on strava but I should have (rookie mistake). We got my time down pretty quickly from those times over the coming week to e.g 40:33 - 1,475m. 3) We did this for multiple weeks until around week 8 when I started feeling comfortable swimming slowly, but my breathing still needed work (I was doing bubble-bubble technique for a long time and changed to technique in this video after finding it on KZbin around week 8). I then could not get passed 2:00 per 100m, still struggled with taking in water (resulting me stop some sessions due to stomach pain - documented a few times) and decided to contact Brenton for help at around week 8-9, to which we decided to try and document how we can help my position + breathing be a lot better than what I was at :) Hope that helps!! I know you weren't meaning harmful intent :) I just wanted to clear it up, as I definitely have not been swimming for years haha :)

[@GreenSamantha92]

Makes a lot more sense reading this thread. * You are doing amazing for a beginne Brody, amazing coaching by Brenton.

[@GG-pr3yo]

Open water swimming is way different than a pool... just sayin......

[@Am979100]

Yeah he's going to go head first into a another competitor or lose sight of where he's supposed to go pretty quick. However swimming great in the pool will transfer pretty easy to whatever he needs to do for the open-water I guess.

[@lesliebattle6151]

To me all of this proves one big thing is that swimming is the dumbest sport on the planet a micro change has a huge impact so put yourself in the water with waves and it all goes to hell it's completely pointless ..take up duathlon

[@pamelasosna7851]

Tie