If you regularly read my posts you’re probably aware of the DARPA study which showed that human swimmers are only 3% efficient–as compared to the 80% efficiency of dolphins. (I.E. Dolphins convert 80% of energy expenditures into forward motion; in …
What is Easy Fly?
Easy Fly is a specialized way to learn and swim butterfly, refined by Total Immersion over the past 12 years. and designed to allow swimmers of any age or athletic ability to learn a smooth, relaxing …
This week’s guest post was authored by Ed Horne (white cap in the video) who completed a Gibraltar Strait swim with swim partner Michael Fabray in June 2017.
Well, the goal was simple . . . I wanted to join …
Our regular mid-week guest post comes from Jim Nystrom who recounts how he progressed, in just three months, from being able to swim 100 yards of continuous freestyle to an almost effortless 2.4-mile swim from the island of Nevis to …
This week, our mid-week post is a podcast I recently recorded with Rich Soares of Mile High Endurance on the topic of bilateral breathing.
Our interview begins at the 25:00 mark of this audio file.
Rich and I …
Do you know your time for 100 yards? Not your time for a single all-out time trial, but the time you would record at a relatively relaxed pace. A pace you could repeat three to five times, resting less than …
This is another in a series of mid-week guest posts by TI coaches and fans. This one is by Ioannis Karampelas, MD.
On a September afternoon in 2005 I was wandering around a Barnes & Noble bookstore in Buffalo, NY, …
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Last Saturday, August 26, I swam my second open water event in two weeks, and second of the summer. It was part of the Lake George Open Water Swim (LGOWS) in Hague NY, at the northern end of Lake George, …
I imagine that the vast majority of TI enthusiasts swim only, or mainly freestyle. In this post, I make the case for becoming a well-rounded, even complete, swimmer.
I’ve been a distance swimmer since the summer of 1964 when—at …