Posts Tagged ‘mindfulness’

How Suzanne Improved Her Speed
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.

Lessons from Endless Pool Practice
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.

Purposeful Variety: One Practice, Two Ways
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.

How to Gain Maximum Benefit from Swimming Easily
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.

Has a Swim Coach ever suggested you Smile?
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.

Rewire your brain with Mindful, Purposeful Swimming
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-Oriented Swimming Builds a Better Brain.
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.

Water is Embracing . . . Yielding.
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.

How to Build a Better Teacher
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.

Inside Look at Total Immersion Teacher Training
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.