Posts Tagged ‘swim for health’

How Mindfulness Can Guarantee Improvement
by Terry Laughlin

Posted on January 2nd, 2010

Attention, self-perception, and even optimism are improvable skills that can be developed by targeted practice.

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Why – and How – Should you Swim Easy?
by Terry Laughlin

Posted on December 19th, 2009

Why you should make Ease a central goal of your swimming – and 12 specific ways to swim better through ease.

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Learn from Direct Experience
by Terry Laughlin

Posted on December 15th, 2009

Principles for improving your swimming (and almost anything else you value). Don’t overthink. Seek new experience. Learn from it.

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Is Swimming a Neurological Deficit?
by Terry Laughlin

Posted on November 26th, 2009

Understanding swimming as an example of a “neurological deficit” to be solved in the same way other such deficits are may be an aid to achieving greater mastery.

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Running as “ancestral necessity” — Swimming? Not!
by Terry Laughlin

Posted on November 26th, 2009

Our human descendants needed to run to survive. Thus modern man can run efficiently with ease and little thought required. Swimming, on the other hand, requires “attentive and thoughtful” practice to master.

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Your “Brain Training” session for today
by Terry Laughlin

Posted on November 9th, 2009

Training your brain is the key to swimming well – indeed to excellence in anything. Here’s a sample swimming set that will develop habits of clear intention and attentive repetition at the same time it develops efficient movement habits.

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100 Opportunities to Improve Mindfulness
by Terry Laughlin

Posted on November 7th, 2009

If you’ve experienced – or expected – boredom during long pool swims, here’s a way to reframe that experience positively.

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Efficiency, not horsepower
by Terry Laughlin

Posted on November 7th, 2009

Did the GB national team really suggest supplements to swim faster? Whether or not this is true, it’s unquestionably safer — and more effective — to swim more efficiently.

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Is Heart Rate important in Swimming Well
by Terry Laughlin

Posted on August 11th, 2009

Heart rate should probably be a byproduct – rather than a goal – of your swim training program. Even if you swim for fitness. Your goal should be (1) Improve; (2) Save Energy; (3) Imprint efficient movement on your nervous system. As you do, your cardiovascular system will receive healthful stimulus.

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