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Why Some Swimmers Struggle With Swimming Better

by | 13 Feb, 2023

I’ve observed some differences between how one person can arrange their body to execute a skill in the water and create the desired effect – like forming the frame with their whole body and sliding it along the surface for meters –  and another...
Examples Of Tension And Relaxation In Freestyle

Examples Of Tension And Relaxation In Freestyle

by | 9 Nov, 2019

This is an addendum to the post The Tension Behind Relaxation… Some Examples Of Tension And Relaxation In Freestyle There could be hundreds of focal points for building appropriate tension and relaxation throughout the stroke – far too many to discuss in a...
The Tension Behind Relaxation

The Tension Behind Relaxation

by | 9 Nov, 2019

Understanding Relaxation In Context Often, I hear a swimmer describe how eager they are to find that wonderful relaxation in the stroke that Coach Terry described. For some, adding more relaxation will bring a great breakthrough. However, for others, it could be a...
Don’t Work Against Your Own Motion

Don’t Work Against Your Own Motion

by | 21 Jul, 2018

I have been looking back at my notes from studying one of the books from The Pose Method of Running, by Nicholas Romanov, and ran across this quote on relaxation that had caught my attention previously. It adds another dimension to my thoughts shared in a previous...

The Tension Behind Relaxation

by | 28 Apr, 2018

A few days ago, on the Total Immersion blog, I published an essay on the necessary relationship between tension and relaxation in swimming. If you’ve been trying to be ‘more relaxed’ in your stroke, or trying to be ‘more powerful’ you may...
Breathing Solutions Outside The Pool

Breathing Solutions Outside The Pool

by | 11 Jun, 2017

After a swimmer has invested the time to thoroughly work through fundamental swimming skills, often the swimmer encounters some obstacles to improvement that are better addressed by training he needs to do outside the pool. Some major areas for improvement that emerge...
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