On Tuesday of this week I returned home from a trip to Italy and England. On the first leg of that trip, (Oct 19) I swam Corsica to Sardinia. I’ll recount that in next week’s blog.
That evening, I read …
In a few weeks, I’ll mark the 50th anniversary of when I first got serious about swimming—i.e. training with an explicit goal of swimming fast. In November of 1965, I joined the newly-launched swim team at my high school, St. …
In this post I use a ‘real life’ example to show how one swimmer can improve her speed–and achieve a dream–by using the TI Principles-based approach I’ve described in several recent posts. In a few weeks, I’ll spend a ‘fortnight’ …
On Sept 19, TI Master Coach Suzanne Atkinson posted on Facebook that one of her athletes had just won a triathlon world championship. That would be exciting news in any case, but what made this feat particularly special was that …
This is the third post in a series describing how to swim faster with a principles-based approach. In this post I share the thought process that guides my own training. Speed isn’t my highest priority, but I frequently use it …
Conventional wisdom tells us that faster freestyle turnover equals faster speed. If only it were that easy! This might be true for our terrestrial counterparts, runners, but water is about 800 times denser than air. That added resistance means the …
On January 30, on the iTunes/iBooks store we’ll release my latest book Swim Ultra-Efficient Freestyle. While the original TI book has become the most popular swimming book in history, I believe Ultra-Efficient Freestyle is my best effort, as …
Kick timing is an important but often-overlooked aspect of freestyle. But when your swimmers discover the right kick timing connected to hip rotation, they can tap into previously unavailable core power to drive themselves forward faster with far less effort.…
The most frequent request I get from swimmers is: “I just want to be able to breathe easy”. This is for good reason, since clearly if you rotate to breathe and inhale more water than air this will completely interrupt …