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Posts Tagged ‘Effortless Endurance’
Can You Learn (EZ) Butterfly at Any Age?
by Terry Laughlin
Posted on June 1st, 2010
by Terry Laughlin
Posted on June 1st, 2010
Five Ways to Save Energy in Breaststroke and Butterfly
by Terry Laughlin
Posted on May 30th, 2010
by Terry Laughlin
Posted on May 30th, 2010
Swim breaststroke and butterfly longer without fatigue, and faster in the short term, by emphasizing streamlining over propulsion.
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.
What’s Your Swimming Goal
by Terry Laughlin
Posted on April 22nd, 2010
by Terry Laughlin
Posted on April 22nd, 2010
Three succinct goals for improvement-oriented swimmers.
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.
Reduce speed a little. Save a lot.
by Terry Laughlin
Posted on March 10th, 2010
by Terry Laughlin
Posted on March 10th, 2010
Small reductions in speed – in swimming as well as driving – can lead to LARGE savings in energy. In a triathlon that could pay off handsomely in cycling and running.
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.
An “Effortless Endurance” Practice
by Terry Laughlin
Posted on February 3rd, 2010
by Terry Laughlin
Posted on February 3rd, 2010
This practice demonstrates how a well-tuned brain performs its function better as you add repetitions and distance – a situation in which the body tends to fatigue.