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Fri, 02 Dec 2011 15:20:05 +0000

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By: find

find — Fri, 07 May 2010 11:53:32 +0000

Your brain is debatably the most significant organ in your entire body. Take great care of it by sticking to the fundamental principles: consume much more veggies, reduce your sugar intake and working out. Basic. That is what the most recent research presents. No require for expensive tablets.

By: Terry Laughlin

Terry Laughlin — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 05:14:41 +0000

Yes it will

By: Chieko Sinisi

Chieko Sinisi — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 18:12:30 +0000

Will this work for both men and women?

By: Jim

Jim — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 09:21:24 +0000

Hi Terry, a very interesting concept…. something I have been thinking about for some time but have never had outside confirmation of. 12 years ago I took up triathlon and set about learning to swim. I had pretty average memory functions but couldn’t memorise phone numbers, details of training sessions etc. I was told to stroke count as a means of measuring efficiency in the pool. I later adapted the counting to racing so I would know exactly where I was in a race and when to sight. In Ironman Roth 1999 I swam 3800m using 2375 strokes (I count a complete arm cycle), in France 2002 I swam 5 strokes less with 2370, Switzerland 2006 and Austria 2007 I assume to be short courses with 2160 & 2150 although my stroke may have improved slightly. Needless to say my training partners think I’m slightly mad as most can’t even count the number of lengths in a long rep.

Recently I have noticed an added sharpness to my memory functions. When I come to write up my session, this can be anything up to 3 days later, I can remember the exact time of starting, the accumulative loss/gain on my 60 length warm up, the splits on a typical session of 30 x 50, time of warm down, number of strokes on most of the lengths and even the splits on the clocks at either end of the pool. As an added bonus I sometimes count the number of lengths other swimmers are doing in my lane if I find I am getting bored. This also transfers across to run training and especially bike sessions which are done on a 450m velodrome and call for precise lap counting and memorising of splits.

I have recently started using your TI method as I have a Channel relay to do in September and hope to improve my stroke efficiency, one thing I do know, I will know how many strokes I swim in my hour!

Jim

By: pat gallant-charette

pat gallant-charette — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 00:25:05 +0000

Very interesting research. Stroke counting here I come!