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.
Posts Tagged ‘mindfulness’
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.
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.
by Terry Laughlin
Posted on April 14th, 2010
Easy swimming isn’t lazy swimming. It brings the greatest benefit when you strive to reach a higher level of efficiency and a greater sense of harmony with the water. In many ways it should be your most demanding form of practice.
by Terry Laughlin
Posted on April 2nd, 2010
Yoga teachers regularly remind us to smile – and it works. My yoga improves when I smile. In recent months I’ve learned smiling improves my swimming too.
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.
by Terry Laughlin
Posted on March 31st, 2010
When you Swim to Improve, you stimulate far more brain cells than when you swim to Get the Yards In.
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.
by Terry Laughlin
Posted on March 6th, 2010
Teaching Total Immersion Swimming is a learnable skill, built from specific consistent practices. Two articles describe some of them.
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.