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Triathlon Swimming: Made Easy
Extraordinary Swimming for Every BodyLearning to swim butterfly as an adult can be an exercise in Problem-Solving, Challenging Assumptions and Deep Practice, rather than Working Harder. This benefits both brain and body.
Posts Tagged ‘Continuous Improvement’
Take Away What Doesn’t Flow
by Terry Laughlin
Posted on June 6th, 2010
by Terry Laughlin
Posted on June 6th, 2010
Start with a vision of flow, grace and harmony. Use the right tools, in the right order, to take away whatever doesn’t match that vision.
Learning new skills: Repeat, repeat, repeat.
by Terry Laughlin
Posted on June 3rd, 2010
by Terry Laughlin
Posted on June 3rd, 2010
Adults learn new skills more slowly than kids. But they learn them better over time.
Can You Learn (EZ) Butterfly at Any Age?
by Terry Laughlin
Posted on June 1st, 2010
by Terry Laughlin
Posted on June 1st, 2010
How to swim Butterfly, without fatigue, at any age.
Mastery in P.J. Clarke’s . . . a saloon
by Terry Laughlin
Posted on May 27th, 2010
by Terry Laughlin
Posted on May 27th, 2010
Mastery is where you find it, yet always has lessons to teach.
Caution: This Could Become Addictive
by Terry Laughlin
Posted on May 26th, 2010
by Terry Laughlin
Posted on May 26th, 2010
How I experienced the “thrill” of nervous system adaptation in the precise moment it occurred during my first-ever practice using a Tempo Trainer to swim at precise Stroke Rates.
USE practice time. Don’t use it UP!
by Terry Laughlin
Posted on May 25th, 2010
by Terry Laughlin
Posted on May 25th, 2010
The best way to improve your swimming is to shift from following arbitrary “formulas” for training, to planning sets that produce insight and steadily expand your “critical framework” for planning practices.
How to Improve through Balanced Perspective
by Terry Laughlin
Posted on May 20th, 2010
by Terry Laughlin
Posted on May 20th, 2010
There are four key metrics in swimming – Efficiency, Effort, Tempo and Time. Most people use only one. That limits improvement and increases potential for frustration. Expand your perspective and you have more opportunity to improve.
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.
Will you be Swimming-to-Improve at 87?
by Terry Laughlin
Posted on May 18th, 2010
by Terry Laughlin
Posted on May 18th, 2010
Jazz pianist Hank Jones, who died Sunday at age 91, was still learning new material and trying to ‘make his lines flow smoothly’ at age 87, if not later. Do you practice swimming like Hank practiced music?