Running faster – and staying efficient – comes naturally. Wasting energy when we try to swim faster comes equally naturally.
Posts Tagged ‘Perpetual Motion Freestyle’
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.
by Terry Laughlin
Posted on March 23rd, 2011
Another example of how to design practices based on Problem-Solving and Task-Mastery, rather than how-far, how-hard.
by Terry Laughlin
Posted on March 22nd, 2011
How to spend 30 to 60 minutes focused solely on increasing awareness and sensitivity in your hands.
by Terry Laughlin
Posted on March 22nd, 2011
“Memory Competition” is what makes it difficult to change old stroke habits. To win that competition you must practice in ways your brain doesn’t associate with what’s gone before.
by Terry Laughlin
Posted on March 21st, 2011
This practice specifies what to think about. That’s more important than how far you swim.
by Terry Laughlin
Posted on March 18th, 2011
How Freestyle evolved from a ‘speed’ stroke to one that anyone can use to cover long distances effortlessly.
by Terry Laughlin
Posted on March 18th, 2011
If it’s hard for you to swim continuous freestyle, but easy to do so in breaststroke, here’s a plan for applying sensations of ease and support from breaststroke to freestyle.
by Terry Laughlin
Posted on January 30th, 2011
The most valuable capacity one needs to develop for any endurance swim – more valuable than physical fitness or stroke efficiency – is the capacity to keep your focus in the immediate moment. Like any habit or capacity, this only happens through practice.
by Terry Laughlin
Posted on January 17th, 2011
Balance and Relaxation are critical to both Skiing and Swimming in ‘rolling terrain.’ Here are three tips for how to achieve that in open water, with video to illustrate.