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Triathlon Swimming: Made EasyThere 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.
Archive for the ‘Pool Training’ Category
How Suzanne Improved Her Speed
by Terry Laughlin
Posted on May 13th, 2010
by Terry Laughlin
Posted on May 13th, 2010
By Measuring The Right Stuff rather than Going Harder, Suzanne improved her 500 yard PR by 25 seconds. I did the same and improved my 500 repeat time by 50 seconds in one set.
How I Measure Improvement: Examples from 3 Practices
by Terry Laughlin
Posted on May 10th, 2010
by Terry Laughlin
Posted on May 10th, 2010
A description of 3 practices showing how to measure improvement by tracking 4 key variables or metrics.
Lessons from Endless Pool Practice
by Terry Laughlin
Posted on May 5th, 2010
by Terry Laughlin
Posted on May 5th, 2010
For most of 18 months immediately before turning 55, I was unable to train in the usual way – no timed sets in a regular pool. I was able to tune key details of my body position, alignment, etc, in an Endless Pool. What happened next was completely unexpected.
Purposeful Variety: One Practice, Two Ways
by Terry Laughlin
Posted on May 4th, 2010
by Terry Laughlin
Posted on May 4th, 2010
There’s a difference between purposeful variety in training and variety planned only to relieve tedium. Here’s an example of purposeful variety.
Much Faster Tempo while increasing Stroke Length
by Terry Laughlin
Posted on April 23rd, 2010
by Terry Laughlin
Posted on April 23rd, 2010
While practicing with the Tempo Trainer, I increased my tempo by .2 sec/stroke, yet subtracted 1 stroke from my total for 50 yards. Priceless!
Do you swim easily enough?
by Terry Laughlin
Posted on April 9th, 2010
by Terry Laughlin
Posted on April 9th, 2010
Few swimmers swim easily enough, often enough. Here are reasons why swimming easily more often can help you swim faster, at the right times.
Water is Embracing . . . Yielding.
by Terry Laughlin
Posted on March 30th, 2010
by Terry Laughlin
Posted on March 30th, 2010
Superman Glide is the best way to heighten awareness of water’s best qualities. Do it at the beginning of practice and everything that follows should feel better and easier.
Inside Look at Total Immersion Teacher Training
by Terry Laughlin
Posted on March 5th, 2010
by Terry Laughlin
Posted on March 5th, 2010
A day-by-day chronicle of how a TI Teaching Professional is trained, by Suzanne Atkinson a cycling and triathlon coach from Pittsburgh.
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?