TI Coach Suzanne Atkinson is an M.D., a trained exercise physiologist, and a highly versatile and successful coach of swimmers, triathletes, and cycling. With such academic and professional credentials, you might expect Suzanne to define exercise in physiological terms—e.g. “increase …
Tonight, Katie Ledecky swims the final of the 800 meter freestyle at the Rio Olympics, an event in which she owns the top 10 or so performances in history, and in which her closest competitors will probably be far behind …
Friends
I would love to take credit for the title of today’s blog. However, my devoted student and friend, Jeanne Safer, said it as we talked about how what had once been purely physical/fitness activities had become transformed as I …
Coach Scott Lemley talks about “feel for the water” and how it can be learned. He’s coached swimming at four levels: club (38 years), college (17 years), high school (17 years) and masters (10 years). He’s an accomplished masters swimmer …
The end of the presidential primary season, with the two parties’ nominating conventions the past two weeks, has gotten me thinking about some of the slogans we are likely to hear with frequently during the three months between now and …
I was invited to respond to a reader query in the Tri Clinic section of the UK-published magazine 220 Triathlon. It won’t be published there for another month or two, but readers of my blog get a sneak peek at …
There are two ways to try to swim faster. One is what I call the “Limbs, Lungs, and Muscles” approach. Move your limbs as fast as you can. Put more muscle into your stroke. Hope that your fitness will outlast …
Jeanne Safer and I were in the middle of a lesson in the Endless Pool at our home Swim Studio in New Paltz NY, when Jeanne suddenly stood up and blurted out: “You can change profoundly–in body and mind–at …
Three weeks ago I published a post The 4 Stages of Skill-Learning. And the Critical Kaizen Loop which proved to be one of the most popular of the year. In that post I explained the stages through which we all …
Two months ago, at at the TI Triathlon-Swim Camp at the National Triathlon Training Center in Clermont FL, I enjoyed the privilege of coaching alongside a very strong group of TI coaches–all of whom happened to be women. Not only …