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Taren's MōTTIV Method Podcast

Effortless Swimming for Triathlon | Brenton Ford

Taren's MōTTIV Method Podcast

Taren Gesell

Podcast, Triathlon, Ironman, Health & Fitness, Training, Gesell, Triathletes, Sports, Taren

4.7843 Ratings

🗓️ 10 March 2019

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

For a large majority of age group athletes, the swim is their biggest obstacle.  But Brenton Ford is here to help.  The founder and coach of Effortless Swimming, Brenton is an expert at analyzing problems or hitches in an athlete's swim stroke, and prescribing easy, manageable drills to can fix them.  He's worked with pros and amateurs alike, and is in the middle of developing a new program aimed specifically at age-groupers, to help make swimming easier, more enjoyable, and ultimately effortless.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Today's podcast is brought to you by a new podcast sponsor that I'm so jacked up about

0:05.4

Roka.

0:07.4

After five, six years of Roka being my go-to-wet suit, they are now part of the triathlon

0:14.5

Taryn family.

0:15.4

And fun story about this, how I ended up becoming such a big fan of Roka is I was training for an open water marathon swim.

0:23.0

First one that I did was 27 kilometers and I was training in this old wetsuit.

0:28.1

My shoulders were getting sore.

0:30.1

And at our honeymoon in Kona in 2013, I went up to the Roka booth when they were so small that it was the founders that were working the booth

0:38.4

and they had to share the booth with somebody else and I told them about this marathon swim and they

0:42.4

set me up with a wetsuit, take it back home and they had back then what was this revolutionary thing.

0:49.5

They now call it the arms up technology. It was what put Roca on the map. It's the game changing,

0:55.2

really flexible shoulders. They had it then and it basically turned them from this tiny little

1:00.7

wetsuit company into this giant company that is Roca right now. And they've still got that

1:05.9

arms up technology. And it's still why I use Roca wetsuits. I'm pumped. Full circle. I'm a Roka fanboy.

1:13.2

Well, there's an amazing, there's a couple good things coming up. First of all, there's a

1:17.7

coupon that they're offering to folks who are listening here to the podcast. If you go to their

1:22.2

website, they have a coupon code, or you use the coupon code, Taryn, you'll get $20 off of an order of $100 or more.

1:29.5

So that's kind of a big deal.

1:31.5

But bigger than that.

1:33.1

Bigger than that.

1:33.7

Much bigger.

1:34.7

Roca.com slash Taryn.

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