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Triathlon Swimming: Made EasyPull buoys are both seductive and insidious because they allow you to mask a lack of balance while convincing yourself you’re ‘building upper body strength.’
Archive for the ‘Mastery’ Category
Little-Known Fact about Speed
by Terry Laughlin
Posted on December 22nd, 2010
by Terry Laughlin
Posted on December 22nd, 2010
Stroke Length (SL) is far more critical to speed than Stroke Rate (SR). SL is devilishly difficult to create. SR is ridiculously easy.
Total Immersion and The ‘Arduous Mind’
by Terry Laughlin
Posted on December 21st, 2010
by Terry Laughlin
Posted on December 21st, 2010
There are many people who’d be great adult educators, but few avenues to connect them with mature and hungry minds. It’s especially uplifting for me to think of TI as an adult education community more than a swimming method.
How Tim Ferriss Learned to Swim in 10 Days
by Terry Laughlin
Posted on December 19th, 2010
by Terry Laughlin
Posted on December 19th, 2010
Tim Ferriss, author of NY Times #1 best-seller 4-Hour Workweek has a new book out 4-Hour Body, which seeks to do for fitness and athletic skills what his prior book did for lifestyle. Eliminate wasted time and effort and maximize success.
Here’s what he says about TI Swimming: “TI is 100% responsible for the fastest transformation I’ve ever had in sports.”
A Balance Lesson: (Fear of) Falling vs Sinking
by Terry Laughlin
Posted on November 27th, 2010
by Terry Laughlin
Posted on November 27th, 2010
On land your body sends LOUD, CLEAR AND UNAMBIGUOUS alerts about imbalance. In the water those signals are easy to miss or misinterpret.
Balance, Closed Eyes, and the “Monkey Mind”
by Terry Laughlin
Posted on November 20th, 2010
by Terry Laughlin
Posted on November 20th, 2010
Closing your eyes can help you learn fine skills faster. It also helps transform swimming into a moving meditation.
Want to Swim 200 Fly at any age? Balance & Streamline.
by Terry Laughlin
Posted on November 19th, 2010
by Terry Laughlin
Posted on November 19th, 2010
How “Balance-Streamline-Propel” helped cure a 40-year “Butterfly Problem” in a few weeks.
Swim for Pleasure rather than Fitness
by Terry Laughlin
Posted on November 18th, 2010
by Terry Laughlin
Posted on November 18th, 2010
Swim for peak experiences, rather than for fitness or strength.
Do you swim for Exercise . . . or Flow?
by Terry Laughlin
Posted on November 6th, 2010
by Terry Laughlin
Posted on November 6th, 2010
When you make swimming with grace an explicit and high-value goal, you transform swimming from Exercise into a Flow State and create happiness as well as health and fitness.
Practice for Love: Practice more. Improve more. Love it more.
by Terry Laughlin
Posted on November 4th, 2010
by Terry Laughlin
Posted on November 4th, 2010
The more you practice, the more you improve, the more you enjoy swimming . . . the more you practice.