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Triathlon Swimming: Made EasyHow well might you swim if your main practice goal was to Experience More Joy?
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Video: Secrets of Swimming Faster Part 5 of 9
by Terry Laughlin
Posted on April 24th, 2011
by Terry Laughlin
Posted on April 24th, 2011
Training for Bigger Lungs or Muscles cannot solve the three Speed Problems that are as inevitable as death or taxes – Energy Waste, Resistance, and Age. Only Neural training can solve them.
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.
Open (or close) your eyes and see as never before.
by Terry Laughlin
Posted on April 12th, 2011
by Terry Laughlin
Posted on April 12th, 2011
Few swimmers *really* pay attention. Opening – or closing – your eyes can can change everything.
A Brief History Part 5: Closing the Loop — Habits, Neurons and Swim Improvement
by Terry Laughlin
Posted on April 8th, 2011
by Terry Laughlin
Posted on April 8th, 2011
Mindful Practice — consciously merging thought and movement – creates *observable change in the brain’s infrastructure*. This improves skill, endurance and speed far more dramatically than training the body alone.
A Brief History of TI Part 4: 2003-07 – A “Study of Excellence”
by Terry Laughlin
Posted on April 7th, 2011
by Terry Laughlin
Posted on April 7th, 2011
In most endeavors, most people stop improving fairly quickly. A few continue improving indefinitely – sometimes for decades. Four habits make this possible.
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 Brief History of TI: Part 3 of 5
by Terry Laughlin
Posted on April 5th, 2011
by Terry Laughlin
Posted on April 5th, 2011
TI metamorphoses from a way of *doing* swimming to a way of *thinking about* swimming . . . and by extension, about life.
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.