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Tool Review #4 Kickboards: Not Dangerous. Still Insidious
by Terry Laughlin
Posted on December 29th, 2010
by Terry Laughlin
Posted on December 29th, 2010
How to Make Breathing Feel Effortless
by Terry Laughlin
Posted on December 4th, 2010
by Terry Laughlin
Posted on December 4th, 2010
With a renewed focus on Balance Thoughts-and-Feelings for the past 5 weeks of practice my balance and breathing feel more ‘effortless’ than ever.
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.
Video: How Balance improves Breathing
by Terry Laughlin
Posted on November 24th, 2010
by Terry Laughlin
Posted on November 24th, 2010
Balance practice is best done in short, intensely focused repeats — the same kind that are best for improving advanced skills like breathing.
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.
What does Living Well have to do with Swimming Faster?
by Terry Laughlin
Posted on October 30th, 2010
by Terry Laughlin
Posted on October 30th, 2010
I don’t practice to swim faster only for the momentary satisfaction of seeing the time displayed as I touch the wall. I do it because it requires ‘deep’ practice which is satisfying, develops better habits and behaviors and grows new brain cells. But just as much because every moment of deep practice has the potential for putting me in a Flow State.
Help Ben Improve his Swimming (& improve your grasp of how to improve yourself.)
by Terry Laughlin
Posted on October 16th, 2010
by Terry Laughlin
Posted on October 16th, 2010
When you can recognize balance – or its absence – in someone else’s swimming, and feel and improve it in your own, everything else will improve.