Nearly 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.
Archive for the ‘distance swimming’ Category
It’s not a Plateau. It’s a Crossroads.
by Terry Laughlin
Posted on April 6th, 2011
by Terry Laughlin
Posted on April 6th, 2011
In most endeavors we improve quickly at first, but improvement slows, then stops. What happens next is a defining moment for all of us.
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.
How to swim Distance Freestyle as easily as Breaststroke
by Terry Laughlin
Posted on March 18th, 2011
by Terry Laughlin
Posted on March 18th, 2011
If it’s hard for you to swim continuous freestyle, but easy to do so in breaststroke, here’s a plan for applying sensations of ease and support from breaststroke to freestyle.