This post was originally published by Terry Laughlin on Aug. 21, 2011.
One of my favorite tuneup sets is also a great test of one’s ability to increase speed efficiently. This, in turn, is one of the best predictors …
[Editorial Note: The following is excerpted from Chapter 21 of Terry Laughlin’s 2002 book, Triathlon Swimming Made Easy: The Total Immersion Way for Anyone to Master Triathlon or Open Water Swimming]
REALLY OPEN WATER
Ocean swimming is a …
[Editorial Note: The following is excerpted from Chapter 21 of Terry Laughlin’s 2002 book, Triathon Swimming Made Easy: The Total Immersion Way for Anyone to Master Triathlon or Open Water Swimming]
Swimming just behind …
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[Editorial Note: The following is excerpted from Chapter 21 of Terry Laughlin’s 2002 book, Triathon Swimming Made Easy: The Total Immersion Way …
The following article is adapted from the transcript of a talk that Terry Laughlin gave at the 2004 American Swim Coaches Association (ASCA) World Clinic. For brevity, this lengthy talk has been edited for this blog, but readers can view …
Mark Fromberg coaching an open water swim clinic at Okanagan Lake, Jun. 2012
Guest blogger and T.I. Swimmer Dr. Mark Fromberg lives in the Okanagan Valley of British Columbia and first learned to swim in 2004 at the age of …
This exhaustively-detailed Oct. 2014 post from Terry Laughlin explains how we teach and practice the arm recovery of freestyle and why we teach this way, as opposed to the more traditional “straight-arm recovery,” which requires more strain and exertion. Like
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This week we revisit one of our most popular blog posts from 2016– a post from Terry on the metacognitive aspects of skill acquisition (i.e. “learning how we learn”) and how that relates to Total Immersion’s mindful, kaizen approach to …
We here at T.I. would like to thank Tim Ferriss once again for honoring Terry last week on the recent 1 year anniversary of his passing on 10/20. In one of our previous blog posts this past summer,…
(Pictured above: Tempo Trainer Pro by Finis )
Last week’s post on “Endurance Skills” illustrated a practice set that included the use of the “Tempo Trainer” pacing device– a waterproof electronic “metronome” worn while swimming– in one of the sets. …