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Archive for the ‘Effective Training’ Category
Tool Review #5: Fins for fitness & strength? Not!
by Terry Laughlin
Posted on January 2nd, 2011
by Terry Laughlin
Posted on January 2nd, 2011
Kicking or swimming with fins is a moderately effective way to Build Fitness and Strength” but a highly ineffective way to Improve Your Swimming.
Tool Review #3 Hand Paddles: Exercise Utmost Care
by Terry Laughlin
Posted on December 26th, 2010
by Terry Laughlin
Posted on December 26th, 2010
Hand Paddles are a clear and present danger to shoulders and encourage misguided focus on power. If you use them at all, swim — don’t pull — at moderate pressure with a meticulous stroke.
Tool Review #2: Pull Buoy — Crutch or Virtue
by Terry Laughlin
Posted on December 24th, 2010
by Terry Laughlin
Posted on December 24th, 2010
Pull buoys are both seductive and insidious because they allow you to mask a lack of balance while convincing yourself you’re ‘building upper body strength.’
Little-Known Fact about Speed
by Terry Laughlin
Posted on December 22nd, 2010
by Terry Laughlin
Posted on December 22nd, 2010
Stroke Length (SL) is far more critical to speed than Stroke Rate (SR). SL is devilishly difficult to create. SR is ridiculously easy.
Can a higher stroke count be better?
by Terry Laughlin
Posted on December 5th, 2010
by Terry Laughlin
Posted on December 5th, 2010
The day I learned how fast the nervous system can adapt.
How to enter the “Superlearning State”
by Terry Laughlin
Posted on December 3rd, 2010
by Terry Laughlin
Posted on December 3rd, 2010
In the ‘Superlearning’ state, you’re calm, keenly alert, non-judging, and resistant to distraction. Starting practice with simple Balance drills will put you in it.
Why does Alberto Salazar sound like a TI Coach?
by Terry Laughlin
Posted on November 21st, 2010
by Terry Laughlin
Posted on November 21st, 2010
Some call Alberto Salazar the savior of American distance running. He sounds uncannily like a TI Swim Coach.
Want to Swim 200 Fly at any age? Balance & Streamline.
by Terry Laughlin
Posted on November 19th, 2010
by Terry Laughlin
Posted on November 19th, 2010
How “Balance-Streamline-Propel” helped cure a 40-year “Butterfly Problem” in a few weeks.
What I learned on Day One as a Coach
by Terry Laughlin
Posted on November 18th, 2010
by Terry Laughlin
Posted on November 18th, 2010
How I learned to coach by sight, rather than the clock, in the first two workouts I ever ran.