I’ve worked with many triathletes and competitive swimmers in the Upper Midwest. When someone comes in for an appointment, I could go all day on video analysis, and I often think that’s what the less-than-enthusiastic swimmer wants me to do, …
Often I get clients who transform their swimming to get closer to the level of speed or efficiency that their level of fitness warrants. I’m taking the opposite approach right now. I’ve got the stroke (though there’s always something new …
This fall I extended my usual summer break from pool training, into November, swimming in Lake Awosting until its temperature dropped to a brisk 45 degrees on Oct 31. That was two weeks ago, but I’ve been slow to …
Nov 17 Today I swam the 5 x 500 test set from five days ago in reverse. Here’s how it went.
10 x 50 on :50 (6:52)
5 x 100 on 1:40 (6:52)
4 x 125 on 2:00 …
We just finished editing our latest video yesterday. I expect it to release on Dec 1. It’s called Outside the Box and is a guide to open water. As I watched the final edit …
Brian Vande Krol, TI Coach in Denver, sent me this email query today, which raises perhaps the most provocative question in all of swimming:
>>From time to time, I’ve heard you mention a study about olympic swimmers and power output. …
In a recent, fairly brief, pool practice I did only one set of timed repeats – 3 rounds of 3 x 100 IM on 1:50. I’ll recap it here as a way of illuminating my thinking process, and particularly why …
Steven Munatones, proprietor of 10kswimmer.com asked me if I’ve used the Endless Pools at our Swim Studio to train for cold water acclimatization. In fact I have often trained regularly in EP’s and gained marked benefits for my open water …
Crazy Men in Halloween Plunge
Willie Miller and I swam at a local lake on Oct 31, Halloween. It had snowed four days earlier and there were still patches of snow an inch or two deep alongside the trail …
On December 15, 1965, the first space rendezvous occurred when Walter Schirra and Thomas Stafford brought their Gemini 6 spacecraft within 30 centimeters of the Gemini 7 spacecraft, piloted by Frank Borman and Jim Lovell. But this was not the first attempt at …