Swim Smooth Perth Squad

Hit the beach early and chilling by the pool and bbq…still doesn’t feel quite ‘right’ but as this is now my 22nd Christmas here, at age 45, it’s gotta feel like the “new normal” soon enough! Wishing you all a wonderful time with friends, family and loved ones wherever you are. Thanks for making this year truly special and for always believing in bringing it all back ❤️👍💪

Can’t wait for the free community swimming event right here in Perth - would love to see you along!

Shore 2 Shore Promo Register at www.swim-in-common.com/shore-2-shoreJoin the Strava Club here: https://youtu.be/8p8ywF93pmk

We are now over at https://www.facebook.com/swim.in.common - check us out!

Swim Smooth Perth Squad Perth's most exciting and dedicated adult swim training squad specifically catered for triathletes, open water swimmers and those who love the water!

The perfect pull through from swimmers 👍🏻.


At Swim Smooth we use the smiley face palm visualisation. 😊.


Imagine you have a smiley face drawn on the palm of your hand. The person behind you should always be able to see that smiley face. .


Focusing on your palm facing backwards ensures that you have maximum forward propulsion in your freestyle stroke! .

Next Saturday - really looking forward to this - honoured and humbled to be speaking here...

The World Endurance Coaching Business Summit is excited to welcome Paul Newsome

On June 27th 2020 Paul will speak about solving problems with Adam Young and asking what does your target market need that no one else is offering?

Paul Newsome founded Swim Smooth: The World's Most Passionate Swim Coaching! in 2004 with a box set of DVD’s providing a swim technique resources for his triathlon and open water swimmers.

16 years later, Swim Smooth provides a virtual coaching app Swim Smooth Guru, Swim Smooth certified coaching network and email database of over 130,000, while still continuing one of the world’s largest open water swimming and triathlon programs.

Paul was a top level swimmer, elite triathlete training with the likes of Simon Lessing and Julie Dibens, and has a Sport Science degree from Bath University.

The Swim Smooth app has had greater than 150,000 downloads and the Swim Smooth book has had more than 65,000 purchases.

Join us at to hear Paul speak at the world’s first virtual endurance coaching business development Summit.

Secure your earlybird tickets before June 23 now at the link below.

www.endurancecoachsummit.com

I know a lot of you guys in the Perth Squad love Crowie, so here you go Gary Couanis!

Today we're joined on the podcast by 5-time Ironman World Champion, Craig ("Crowie") Alexander.

Crowie was the 2008, 2009, 2011 Ironman Triathlon World Champion and previous course record holder (8:03:56 in 2011), and the 2006 (inaugural) and 2011 70.3 World Champion. In 2011 he won both the 70.3 and the full Ironman World Championships. Needless to say - he's a beast, but best of all, he's an absolute gentleman too!

Craig was humbled when Ironman legend and six-time World Champion Dave Scott lauded him as “the first true men’s champion the sport has seen in years.”

The most important thing to Craig is family. He is beyond proud of his wife (and the love of his life) Nerida, and his three amazing kids, Lucy, Austin and Lani. Everything Craig does starts and ends at home with his family. Crowie’s won a lot of titles over the years but the one he likes best is ‘Daddy’. As an aside from us, we've only met Crowie once face-to-face but recall how genuine and approachable he was and when the opportunity to record this podcast with the great man came up, he didn't hesitate, such is his show of great character - he's very much "the people's champion" as you'll hear in the first 60 second intro.

Post-retirement, Craig now runs his highly successful coaching program SansEGO (which basically means "without ego") which we believe, at it's heart, is a philosophy we can all learn from (details at: https://www.sansego.co ). A lot of people talk about “life balance” but Craig really does walk the walk, not just talk the talk and his information from his website below is well worth a deeper dive, especially at this period in time of extreme uncertainty and worry:

"His load was extraordinarily heavy but he carried it with methodical focus and balance…and Craig seemed to find more and more comfort with his confidence in simply letting be, be. Alexander’s most impressive talents are not found in his swim, bike, or run competence. Instead, his unique ability to clear the mind’s clutter and make good decisions has been the key ingredient to his success on and off the racecourse. And this key to finding clarity for the 5 x Ironman/70.3 World Champion was getting the life balance"