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Posts Tagged ‘Mastery’
Can You Learn (EZ) Butterfly at Any Age?
by Terry Laughlin
Posted on June 1st, 2010
by Terry Laughlin
Posted on June 1st, 2010
Mastery in P.J. Clarke’s . . . a saloon
by Terry Laughlin
Posted on May 27th, 2010
by Terry Laughlin
Posted on May 27th, 2010
Mastery is where you find it, yet always has lessons to teach.
USE practice time. Don’t use it UP!
by Terry Laughlin
Posted on May 25th, 2010
by Terry Laughlin
Posted on May 25th, 2010
The best way to improve your swimming is to shift from following arbitrary “formulas” for training, to planning sets that produce insight and steadily expand your “critical framework” for planning practices.
When pain or injury is a gift
by Terry Laughlin
Posted on May 24th, 2010
by Terry Laughlin
Posted on May 24th, 2010
Pain or injury occur more frequently as we age. They don’t have to be an inconvenience. Instead we can use them to guide us toward more mindful movement.
Will you be Swimming-to-Improve at 87?
by Terry Laughlin
Posted on May 18th, 2010
by Terry Laughlin
Posted on May 18th, 2010
Jazz pianist Hank Jones, who died Sunday at age 91, was still learning new material and trying to ‘make his lines flow smoothly’ at age 87, if not later. Do you practice swimming like Hank practiced music?
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.
Three Old Friends – Still Athletes and Achievers
by Terry Laughlin
Posted on April 15th, 2010
by Terry Laughlin
Posted on April 15th, 2010
I visit with three athletes who I coached decades ago still pursuing lofty goals today.
Rewire your brain with Mindful, Purposeful Swimming
by Terry Laughlin
Posted on April 1st, 2010
by Terry Laughlin
Posted on April 1st, 2010
Practice that’s designed to improve your stroke and swimming can increase brain infrastructure, according to a study at the Lab for Affective Neuroscience.
Improvement-Minded Swimming
by Terry Laughlin
Posted on March 19th, 2010
by Terry Laughlin
Posted on March 19th, 2010
Your potential in most things (but particularly swimming) is almost certainly far greater than you imagine it to be. If you strive for continuous improvement, you WILL improve continuously.