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Three ‘Secrets’ of Swimming Faster
There are two ways to try to swim faster. One is what I call the “Limbs, Lungs, and Muscles” approach. Move your limbs as fast as you can. Put more muscle into your stroke. Hope that your fitness will...
View ArticleShould Triathletes train with Short Reps or Longer “Steady Aerobic” Swims?
I was invited to respond to a reader query in the Tri Clinic section of the UK-published magazine 220 Triathlon. It won’t be published there for another month or two, but readers of my blog get a sneak...
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Total Immersion: Swimming for The 99%
The end of the presidential primary season, with the two parties’ nominating conventions the past two weeks, has gotten me thinking about some of the slogans we are likely to hear with frequently...
View ArticleZero Cancer Swimming: The Physical Becomes Metaphysical
Friends I would love to take credit for the title of today’s blog. However, my devoted student and friend, Jeanne Safer, said it as we talked about how what had once been purely physical/fitness...
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What Can You Learn from Katie Ledecky?
Tonight, Katie Ledecky swims the final of the 800 meter freestyle at the Rio Olympics, an event in which she owns the top 10 or so performances in history, and in which her closest competitors will...
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Zero Cancer Swimming: Healing “Exercise” and Striving Together
TI Coach Suzanne Atkinson is an M.D., a trained exercise physiologist, and a highly versatile and successful coach of swimmers, triathletes, and cycling. With such academic and professional...
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Zero Cancer Swimming: When the Flesh is Frail; the Mind can be Strong
Last weekend (Aug 28) the NY Times published an essay titled Even Roger Federer Gets Old by Brian Phillips. It was beautifully written and highly entertaining. And it referenced one of my two all-time...
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Blend-and-Harmonize: A Key to Kaizen
At some point, all Kaizen swimmers employ a learning strategy that cognitive scientists refer to as ‘chunking.’ Chunking refers to grouping separate pieces of information together to facilitate...
View ArticleSleep Your Way To Improvement
When demands build up, sleep is the account we make the most withdrawals upon, rarely paying it back sufficiently. But what price in health, performance and longevity do we really end up paying for...
View ArticleBecome One With The Water (Guest Post)
Coach Scott Lemley talks about “feel for the water” and how it can be learned. He’s coached swimming at four levels: club (38 years), college (17 years), high school (17 years) and masters (10 years)....
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How to Have Amazing Swimmer’s Hands
This post is excerpted from Lesson 1 of the TI 2.0 Freestyle Mastery Self-Coaching Course. I’m known for my strong belief in swimming with the natural ‘training equipment’ with which we come into the...
View ArticleRemain in This Moment
It is so much easier to concentrate on quality while swimming in the Abundant Energy Zone – at the beginning, when things feel fresh for the body and the mind. But after some distance – and that...
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Zeroing Out Cancer with Swim Across America
How familiar are you with Swim Across America? Until the last few weeks, I knew little more than that it was involved in fundraising for cancer research. After participating in the SAA-San Francisco on...
View ArticleThinking or Feeling?
The conscious mind is going to stay busy. You can choose, with training, what it stays busy with. Mindfulness is about directing the attention to what maters and keeping it there for intention. You get...
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How to Learn Perfect Pace
Last month, in How to Have Amazing Swimmer’s Hands, I wrote about one of my two favorite swimming tools, fist gloves. In this post–which is excerpted from Lesson 4 of the TI 2.0 Freestyle Mastery...
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Climb–and Master–the TI Pyramid of Skills
Naval architects observe principles of physics and hydrodynamics in designing a sea-worthy vessel. Nature followed the same principles in the evolution of fish like the barracuda and aquatic mammals...
View ArticleBe Present During Movement
You’d think one could get badly injured once and learn his lesson, but we are cultural creatures too, and it is deep in our cultural ethos to ‘push through it’. It’s constantly reinforced in all the...
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A Total Immersion Primer: The Why and How of Stroke Drills
Stroke drills have been an important part of TI methodology since our first adult swim camp in June 1989. The drills we teach have undergone continuous evolution since then, as have the ways we...
View ArticleYear End Blog
You express a wish for my recovery in your message. While the chances for recovery in a physical sense are pretty slim, and perhaps far off, I’ve experienced striking emotional recovery since last...
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A New Year’s Resolution: Better Information and Understanding
Do you feel you have reasonable command of the skills in the TI Effortless Endurance Pyramid (Do you feel balanced and stable in the water? Do you move through the water, more than move it around? Is...
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