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One Amazing Stroke

by | 2 Jan, 2012

When pursuing a new PR on my [insert your favorite distance here] why would I crank out more and more mindless yards, going harder and harder, hoping that improvement will magically appear one day? When does quantity ever lead to quality? My amazing 1500 (for example)...

Simple Math Can Swim Fast

by | 24 Dec, 2011

It is the basic math of SL x SR that tells us where we are at and where we need to be in order to reach our goal. If I set a target of 17 strokes per 25m, starting with 1.20 second tempo, and I find that is it easy for me to hold optimal stroke overlap, the challenge...

Change Is Risk

by | 12 Dec, 2011

I’ve heard of this scenario a few times now- a swimmer comes to a TI course, realizes the physics and physiology behind the concepts, surrenders to the learning process, then begins to practice a new stroke skill with some success and growing excitement. Then...

Train For Brain Power

by | 11 Dec, 2011

A lack of understanding of how the brain and body work together to learn new skills and achieve high performance can sabatoge our improvement. To help explain I’ll define two kinds of effort, and their result, the two kinds of exhaustion that we need to be aware...

Challenging ‘NORMAL’

by | 5 Dec, 2011

Anyone who’s been swimming a while will have some sort of a ‘normal’ stroke- a pattern of movement that is accepted and so familiar that we are able to ignore it and think about other things. However, normal does not necessarily mean effective. What...

Go For Muscle Or Skill?

by | 19 Nov, 2011

I want to stimulate our thinking about the difference between focusing on building muscles (i.e. fitness) during swim practice versus focusing on building skill. Let’s take this example of the difference between a practice set using  paddles versus a set using a...
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