Do you think first about training your brain, or your lungs and muscles, when swimming? If you plan your swim sessions by choosing activities based on whether they’ll stimulate adaptation in your brain and nervous (or neuromuscular) system, then you …
This is a guest post by Eid Mohammed Hamed, head coach of the provincial branch of the Afghan National Team in Herat, Afghanistan. His story illustrates how remarkable outcomes can occur when Passion meets TI.
When it came to sports, …
Two weeks ago, while in Kona HI for a TI Open Water Experience, I had the good fortune to join the Kai ‘Opua Canoe Club for a paddle in an outrigger canoe on two mornings. And the even better fortune …
TI Coach Mat Hudson recently started an on-line book club to discuss books of interest to TI enthusiasts. Our first book is TI Coach Grant Molyneux’s book Effortless Exercise.
Mat’s first assignment was to discuss a question Grant posed …
Paul Lurie showed up at Chez Laughlin out of the blue one day last summer. He’d learned we teach TI there in an Endless Pool. When my daughter Betsy answered the door, Paul’s first question was “Can you teach me …
My dad sometimes claimed to have taught me to swim. His instruction consisted of teaching me Dead Man’s Float and showing me how to move my arms and legs. Shortly after I found the courage to thrash my way to …
At 20 I thought my inborn ability would allow me to progress no farther. At 40, I began rebuilding my stroke based on three Elements of Efficiency. After learning them, I swam faster at 55 than I had at 20, …
“The TI Method will not allow you to fail.” Tim Ferriss
Tim Ferriss’s initial swimming goal was to win a New Year’s bet by swimming 1000 meters in open water by year-end. In April, after dozens of failed lessons, …
“TI completely changed how I looked at things I formerly thought were impossible.” Tim Ferriss
Tim Ferriss has achieved global fame for prodigious feats of skill, learned in record time. Within six months of his first tango lesson, he made …
As you read previously, Tim Ferriss progressed in just eight weeks from being exhausted after 20 yards in a pool to feeling fresh and stress-free after 2000 yards in the ocean. For most aspiring or struggling swimmers, that would be …