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Breaststroke for Every Body
Backstroke for Every Body
Better Fly for Every Body
Triathlon Swimming: Made Easy
Extraordinary Swimming for Every BodyFor most of 18 months immediately before turning 55, I was unable to train in the usual way – no timed sets in a regular pool. I was able to tune key details of my body position, alignment, etc, in an Endless Pool. What happened next was completely unexpected.
Archive for the ‘Effective Training’ Category
Purposeful Variety: One Practice, Two Ways
by Terry Laughlin
Posted on May 4th, 2010
by Terry Laughlin
Posted on May 4th, 2010
There’s a difference between purposeful variety in training and variety planned only to relieve tedium. Here’s an example of purposeful variety.
How to Gain Maximum Benefit from Swimming Easily
by Terry Laughlin
Posted on April 14th, 2010
by Terry Laughlin
Posted on April 14th, 2010
Easy swimming isn’t lazy swimming. It brings the greatest benefit when you strive to reach a higher level of efficiency and a greater sense of harmony with the water. In many ways it should be your most demanding form of practice.
Do you swim easily enough?
by Terry Laughlin
Posted on April 9th, 2010
by Terry Laughlin
Posted on April 9th, 2010
Few swimmers swim easily enough, often enough. Here are reasons why swimming easily more often can help you swim faster, at the right times.
Improvement-Oriented Swimming Builds a Better Brain.
by Terry Laughlin
Posted on March 31st, 2010
by Terry Laughlin
Posted on March 31st, 2010
When you Swim to Improve, you stimulate far more brain cells than when you swim to Get the Yards In.
How to Build a Better Teacher
by Terry Laughlin
Posted on March 6th, 2010
by Terry Laughlin
Posted on March 6th, 2010
Teaching Total Immersion Swimming is a learnable skill, built from specific consistent practices. Two articles describe some of them.
How important is speed to an English Channel Swim
by Terry Laughlin
Posted on February 25th, 2010
by Terry Laughlin
Posted on February 25th, 2010
The faster pace you maintain across the English Channel the better your chances of making it to France – and the less your chances of being caught in one of the Channel’s infamous tidal switches, which have frustrated the dreams of thousands of would-be Channel swimmers. But when you’ll swim for 12 or more hours, what does “speed” mean?
Exact Pace Awareness – without using a pace clock
by Terry Laughlin
Posted on February 16th, 2010
by Terry Laughlin
Posted on February 16th, 2010
Consistent pacing is a core competency of successful distance swimming. I improve my awareness of pace by training with Stroke Count and a Tempo Trainer, rather than a pace clock.
Can Swimmers learn anything from Olympic Speedskaters?
by Terry Laughlin
Posted on February 12th, 2010
by Terry Laughlin
Posted on February 12th, 2010
Speedskaters use virtually uniform technique to master the challenge of “delivering force to the ice.” Swimmers, who face massively greater challenges in “delivering force to the water” are far less uniform and far more idiosyncratic in their technique. Why has the community of swimmers not achieved more agreement on the most efficient way to swim?
Use Feedback to Train Effectively
by Terry Laughlin
Posted on February 11th, 2010
by Terry Laughlin
Posted on February 11th, 2010
Today’s practice sample shows the value of getting the right kind of feedback from practice sets. Data that lets you know if you’re improving — and how and why.