January 23, 2009
About half of the regulars at my masters practice (including me) are preparing for the USMS One Hour Postal Challenge. To participate, a competitor swims for one hour in a short course pool, with an adult …
During the masters workouts in which I’ve participated, the key has been not reverting back to traditional swim methods, when everyone else utilizes them. What has helped is the coach is into TI and understands why I am not using …
Well, a couple months since my last entry, and I can say with confidence that a good portion of the "Channel weight" is gone. I am actually getting cold in the water again, which is actually a good thing.
While …
It’s said that it can take 3000 or more repetitions to commit the simplest of movements to muscle memory, and up to 20,000 to make a complex skill "permanent." After learning a new skill – e.g. Mail Slot entry …
In July, 2000, Fast Company published an article entitled "Unleashing the Ideavirus" by Seth Godin. In it, Godin introduced the concept of "viral marketing" which has since become…viral. Godin wrote that an Ideavirus is an idea that influences everyone …
Here’s another excerpt from my upcoming book on open water swimming, Outside the Box, which complements our DVD of the same name. You can read all of Chapter 3, from which this is excerpted on the Discussion Forum…
Chapter 1 Living on Planet Water
Subsequent chapters will be posted at the Discussion Forum, a new chapter every other day, until the entire book is posted.
At 5:30 on a cool June morning, with the sun still …
Finally, a blog post. I will blame the holidays, like everyone else. Quickly, the second TI group finished up Dec. 20th. It was a great group, and close to max capacity. Bridget and I learned a great deal about working …
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As improvement-minded swimmers, we drill faithfully. And then we swim, hoping that the skills we practice during the drills will become evident in our whole-stroke. …
This was originally published in our e-zine Total Swim, but is not currently available for reading, so I’m republishing it as a blog.
The primary reason most of us stop progressing is because we believe we were born "ordinary" …