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Triathlon Swimming: Made Easy
Extraordinary Swimming for Every BodyNearly every choice you make about planning practices and sets should be driven primarily by whether your repeats strengthen your ability to stay efficient at a range of distances, tempos or paces.
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Video: Secrets of Speed Part 4 of 9
by Terry Laughlin
Posted on April 21st, 2011
by Terry Laughlin
Posted on April 21st, 2011
How did Jason Lezak pass Alain Barnard in the Olympic 4 x 100 Relay — and what’s the lesson in that for the rest of us?
Video: The Secrets of Speed Part 3 of 9
by Terry Laughlin
Posted on April 19th, 2011
by Terry Laughlin
Posted on April 19th, 2011
Running faster – and staying efficient – comes naturally. Wasting energy when we try to swim faster comes equally naturally.
Video: Secrets of Speed Part 2 of 9
by Terry Laughlin
Posted on April 17th, 2011
by Terry Laughlin
Posted on April 17th, 2011
There is no payoff – and potentially enormous cost – from swimming hard in a triathlon. Therefore every thought and action should be directed at making ease and efficiency an unbreakable habit.
Video: Secrets of Speed Part 1 of 9
by Terry Laughlin
Posted on April 14th, 2011
by Terry Laughlin
Posted on April 14th, 2011
When we want to swim faster, we find it almost impossible to think clearly about how. And our instincts lead us to act in ways that make us tired, rather than faster. That’s why it’s essential to have a System for swimming faster.
A Brief History of TI: Part 2 of 5
by Terry Laughlin
Posted on April 4th, 2011
by Terry Laughlin
Posted on April 4th, 2011
New adult swimmers – many of them triathletes – reveal to us that: (1) When it comes to swimming, humans are natural-born strugglers; and (2) Converting Struggles into Skills takes Mindful Practice of “fishlike” techniques.
A Practice to Find your Best Stroke Count
by Terry Laughlin
Posted on March 23rd, 2011
by Terry Laughlin
Posted on March 23rd, 2011
Another example of how to design practices based on Problem-Solving and Task-Mastery, rather than how-far, how-hard.
How Triathletes and Total Immersion Revolutionized Freestyle
by Terry Laughlin
Posted on March 18th, 2011
by Terry Laughlin
Posted on March 18th, 2011
How Freestyle evolved from a ‘speed’ stroke to one that anyone can use to cover long distances effortlessly.
Should we train more intensively in middle age?
by Terry Laughlin
Posted on January 29th, 2011
by Terry Laughlin
Posted on January 29th, 2011
I’m pursuing a different kind of Athletic Mastery at age 60, a radical shift after 40 years. Partly to show that age is just a number. And partly because I can grow more neurons by leaving my comfort zone.
Balance – In Water and On Snow
by Terry Laughlin
Posted on January 17th, 2011
by Terry Laughlin
Posted on January 17th, 2011
Balance and Relaxation are critical to both Skiing and Swimming in ‘rolling terrain.’ Here are three tips for how to achieve that in open water, with video to illustrate.