Two days ago I brought two students, Dmitry and Sergey, to Bard College to guide them through a practice that was 100% focused on increasing efficiency via improving technique. They had just completed two days of instruction–four 90-minute sessions in …
Ten days ago, I received an email notification to moderate a new comment on my recent blog “Guaranteed” Speed: Swim Faster the Smart Way While I receive such notifications every day, something about this one caught my attention: The commenter …
On October 19 I swam from Corsica to Sardinia–covering 15.5K (9.6 miles) in 4 hours 31 minutes–with Tommi Patilla and Lennart Larsson. This is the story of that swim.
Some swim for exercise, others for a sense of accomplishment or …
On Tuesday of this week I returned home from a trip to Italy and England. On the first leg of that trip, (Oct 19) I swam Corsica to Sardinia. I’ll recount that in next week’s blog.
That evening, I read …
In a few weeks, I’ll mark the 50th anniversary of when I first got serious about swimming—i.e. training with an explicit goal of swimming fast. In November of 1965, I joined the newly-launched swim team at my high school, St. …
In this post I use a ‘real life’ example to show how one swimmer can improve her speed–and achieve a dream–by using the TI Principles-based approach I’ve described in several recent posts. In a few weeks, I’ll spend a ‘fortnight’ …
On Sept 19, TI Master Coach Suzanne Atkinson posted on Facebook that one of her athletes had just won a triathlon world championship. That would be exciting news in any case, but what made this feat particularly special was that …
This is the third post in a series describing how to swim faster with a principles-based approach. In this post I share the thought process that guides my own training. Speed isn’t my highest priority, but I frequently use it …
In previous posts, I’ve written that human swimmers are ‘energy-wasting machines.’ We know that ‘raw’ beginners are just 1% to 2% efficient and elites are 9% to 10% efficient. But most followers of this blog are somewhere in the …
This is a Guest Post by triathlete and TI swimmer Sun Sachs.
In July I competed in my first triathlon of the season. I hadn’t done a triathlon in over 10 years so I wasn’t sure what to expect. In …