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4x Olympian • Olympic🥉• World🥇🥈
🏊🏻‍♂️Creator of Open Arm Recovery (OAR)
🚀Helping swimmers move faster with less effort
🇨🇦 Vancouver BC
🔗 https://linktr.ee/brenthayden

06/18/2026

Swimmers call this “black line therapy”

06/13/2026

Perfection 😍

06/12/2026

Swimmers need to fix this breathing technique

It’s called breathing “in the pocket”

When your head is in the right position you create a small bow wave and right behind it where your mouth is the water dips down slightly.

How does this help?

✅ It allows you to get a full breath without having to slow your stroke rate down.

✅ Keeps your head in alignment which helps keep the hips high to reduce drag

Here’s the catch though…

You need to be going a minimum speed to create that bow wave. And…

You WILL get a little water in your mouth. The trick is to not let it go to the back.

If you want to try this, I suggest putting on a pair of fins to help you get your speed up to create that wave.

06/08/2026

Good swimmers overcome the resistance of the water. Great swimmers minimize the resistance they need to overcome.

Do you agree?

06/05/2026

Tag someone you would swim here with 🏊‍♀️🏊‍♂️

🏊‍♀️NadinaTV

05/28/2026

The 2-beat kick isn’t meant for propulsion…

It’s meant to support your stroke in other ways:
✅ Balance
✅ Timing
✅ Rotation
✅ Keeping your lower body in alignment to reduce drag
✅ Connecting your pull to your core through fascial slings
✅ Keeping your HR lower than a 6-beat

So even though it’s not propelling me, it’s still helping move through the water with less effort so it’s great for longer distance swimming where efficiency and sustained speed is the goal.

Kicking continuously (6-beat) generates propulsion but will tire you out faster so typically only reserve this for higher speeds over shorter distances.

If you’re unable to swim WITHOUT kicking continuously, then that’s a sign that your masking errors in other areas of your stroke.

05/27/2026

Swimming is not always about chasing faster pace times, it’s also about chasing lower stroke counts to make each stroke more effective.

Focus on lowering your stroke count and you’ll see your pace time drop.

05/19/2026

Describe this swim in one word 🏊🏻‍♂️

05/15/2026

The fastest swimmers constantly do this…

They focus on swimming fast slowly.

Working on making your slow stroke faster forces you to find where your stroke is leaking.

• Increased drag from poor body position
• A disconnected stroke caused by poor timing
• An unstable or ineffective pull
• Wasted energy from unnecessary muscle tension
• Stiff ankles that push the water down and up instead of flicking it behind
• Not enough rotation
• Too much rotation (see what I did there?)
• Dropped elbows during the catch
• Kicking continuously to mask stroke leaks
• Lifting the head too much during breathing
• Rushing the stroke and losing connection with the water
• Dead spots in the stroke where momentum stalls
• Fighting the water instead of working with it

The goal isn’t just to swim harder.
It’s to seal the leaks so your energy actually transfers into speed.

Once you seal the leaks, then you gradually increase your speed being mindful you only go as fast as you can maintain the integrity of your technique. Keep this up and you will develop the fastest most efficient swimming possible.

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