Free Speed

PaulEaglestone swamcompetitively from childhood to his early twenties, including with a nationalsquad. He has coached swimming and triathlon for 30 years, and he is stilltaking athletes to the podium today. Paul was Alex Yee's swim coach throughout Yee'steens. Athletes use Paul's methods in coached sessionsas well as in their own self-directed training. The Covid-19 lockdown wasPaul's opportunity to commit the method he had developed over the course of hiscareer into the pages of a book, Free Speed. He is passionate aboutspreading his training ideas, which are simple but highly effective, to as manypeople as possible, particularly those who may not have their own coaches. Paulcurrently resides in the UnitedKingdom.

"Paul has an infectiousinterest in making people swim faster, not through complex training but bytaking a commonsense approach." -Dan Duran, master swimmer/triathlete" A one-of-a-kind method,from a one-of-a-kind coach. Paul has helped me from being a competitiveregional athlete to competing at a Junior Elite level within triathlon." -DanPinn, 8th in 2017 European Duathlon championships"From Olympians to amateurs, underPaul we all succeed. Under Paul, I went from top 20 to top 5 in the London triathlon T3series." -Matt Maginn, Regional triathlon academy squad 2015-18"Over 2 years with Paul as mycoach I not only continued to swim good PBs in the pool, I also developedmy ability to swim efficiently and effectively in open water, and poolswimming, for triathlon. This has been achieved with swimmingapproximately half the swim training hours that I was doing previously,which allowed me to train more effectively for the other triathlondisciplines. Paul's coaching completely changed my perspectives ofswimming for the better, and I've not looked back since!" -MichaelEagling, Elite junior triathlete and British Triathlon Super Series;national master swimming