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Free Air: How to Stroke Better while Breathing
by Terry Laughlin
Posted on May 19th, 2010
by Terry Laughlin
Posted on May 19th, 2010
Stroking the lead hand prematurely, and “slipping water,” while breathing, is an almost universal technique error in freestyle. Here is how I’m working to improve on it.
Lessons from Endless Pool Practice
by Terry Laughlin
Posted on May 5th, 2010
by Terry Laughlin
Posted on May 5th, 2010
For 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.
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.
Much Faster Tempo while increasing Stroke Length
by Terry Laughlin
Posted on April 23rd, 2010
by Terry Laughlin
Posted on April 23rd, 2010
While practicing with the Tempo Trainer, I increased my tempo by .2 sec/stroke, yet subtracted 1 stroke from my total for 50 yards. Priceless!
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.
Improvement-Minded Swimming
by Terry Laughlin
Posted on March 19th, 2010
by Terry Laughlin
Posted on March 19th, 2010
Your potential in most things (but particularly swimming) is almost certainly far greater than you imagine it to be. If you strive for continuous improvement, you WILL improve continuously.
Inside Look at Total Immersion Teacher Training
by Terry Laughlin
Posted on March 5th, 2010
by Terry Laughlin
Posted on March 5th, 2010
A day-by-day chronicle of how a TI Teaching Professional is trained, by Suzanne Atkinson a cycling and triathlon coach from Pittsburgh.
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?