Swim Golf is a great way to experiment and learn from various tempos on your Tempo Trainer. Count your strokes for 50 yards and time yourself. Add those two numbers together to get your "Golf" score.
How long can you …
The question about TI techniques among competitive swimmers is whether TI makes you a faster swimmer through a more efficient and effortless stroke? My answer is an unequivocal yes!
I recently completed my USMS 1 hour postal swim for the local masters …
By Louis Tharp
While a third of the country was watching and listening to a football game, a muted video helped teach Michael and Joe to swim better.
I love the words that serve me as a coach, but I …
Terry spent some time showing us turns, but what caught my attention was his first break out stroke. Terry’s looked so smooth and I wanted mine to be like his. Problem was Terry had spent countless hours perfecting his …
Introduction
In the pursuit of athletic excellence, the most advanced and meticulously crafted training programs cannot provide guidance as accurate and appropriate as intuition and the pursuit of enjoyment and confidence.
I just finished reading Matt Fitzgerald‘s …
Today we were going to use the TT (Tempo Trainer) to learn how to manipulate on command the various paces we were introduced to yesterday. Magic little thing that TT and to think I thought I knew how to …
Nobody told us when we were slogging through high school chemistry that the periodic table of elements would grow. It was 92 or 93. Today it’s 118.
Whoever said that was a changeable number?
To Louis Tharp:
I’m frustrated. …
4 Stages of Learning (how to swim)
Abraham Maslow was a psychologist ahead of his time. While his peers examined illness and abnormalcy, he chose to study aspects of health, wellness & peak performance. He came up with a learning …
Terry introduced the concept of 5 if not more paces or speeds.
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Perfect: |
gentle aim for perfect form |
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Cruise: |
can do this all day |
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Brisk: |
bit faster, streamline thoughts elongate |
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Race: |
use hold, hip, kick |
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Race2: |
just on |
Unlearning /Relearning
Following our revision of day one we took our focus points a little further. Using 3 thoughts we were aiming to develop 3 repeatable but different swimming experiences.
Thought one was just to float our arm forward …