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BEACH ENTRY AND EXIT: Get Comfortable in the Ocean
[Editorial Note: The following is excerpted from Chapter 21 of Terry Laughlin’s 2002 book, Triathlon Swimming Made Easy: The Total Immersion Way for Anyone to Master Triathlon or Open Water...
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Freestyle Breathing 101: Master the Mechanics
The following post is adapted from a 2006 article written by Terry Laughlin. Richard Quick, the six-time U.S. Olympic team coach who directed 12 teams to NCAA titles, once said while giving a...
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VIDEO: Why Synch Swim? Terry Laughlin and Shinji Takeuchi Demo This Practice
(Terry Laughlin and Shinji Takeuchi synch-swimming– Eleuthera, the Bahamas, December 2006.) This post was originally published by Terry Laughlin on Feb. 12, 2011. At the bottom of this post is...
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How to Swim Faster by Stroking Slower (AND Faster)
The following post was originally published by Terry Laughlin on February 15, 2013. Describing swimming as “slow” or “fast” is too imprecise to be meaningful. A pace that is slow for 100 meters can...
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Get The Air You Need: A Focal Point Checklist for Breathing
The following article is excerpted from Terry Laughlin’s book “Extraordinary Swimming for Every Body: A Guide To Swimming Better Than You Ever Imagined.” Unless you have all the air you need, you’ll...
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PRACTICE SETS: What’s Your Best Stroke Count? Find Your Ideal Stroke Count...
This post was originally published by Terry Laughlin on Mar. 23, 2011. This practice is one of a series of sets inspired by the classes we gave at the Multisport World Expo at MIT on March 19. It...
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Terry’s Pool Tool Review: Just Say No To Kickboards
(Photo credit: Simply Swim) This post was originally published by Terry Laughlin on December 29, 2010. Here’s the 4th in my series of counter-reviews of “swim tools” featured in the Active swimming...
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The Truth about 5 Common Swimming Myths
This blog was originally published by Terry Laughlin on Aug. 24, 2015. The primary reason the average swimmer converts only 3 percent of energy into forward motion is that our swimming actions are...
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PRACTICE SET: Guaranteed to Develop “Smarter” Hands and Improve Your Grip on...
Photo credit: Bob Fagan and USIA Video This post was originally published by Terry Laughlin on Mar. 22, 2011. Like previous practices posted, this is another example of a technique-focused Mindful...
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Permission to Swim Slowly: 3 Ways to Artfully Cultivate Smart Speed
This post was originally published by Terry Laughlin on December 14, 2012. In a post on the TI Discussion Forum forum [from the 2012 archive], Steve asked: “My practices are limited to 100-meter...
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5 Principles for Continuous Improvement… for Decades!
Editorial Note: This post from the old TI Discussion Forum is archived from 2012, but if you’d like to participate in the current TI Discussion Forum, it is now located on Facebook as “Total...
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PRACTICE SETS: Two Sets To Test Your Stroke Efficiency and Mastery
This post was originally published by Terry Laughlin on Aug. 21, 2011. One of my favorite tuneup sets is also a great test of one’s ability to increase speed efficiently. This, in turn, is one of...
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How To Make Your Stroke More Efficient in Only 10 Minutes
This post was originally published by Terry Laughlin on July 9, 2015. Would you like to make your stroke markedly, noticeably more efficient in as little as 10 minutes? Doing the right drill, in the...
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How Do You Define “Success” in T.I. Swimming?
This was post was originally published by Terry Laughlin on Jan. 25th, 2013. Earlier this week a large number of TI coaches around the world received the same email from someone who identified...
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Your First Swim Lesson Isn’t How to Stroke– It’s How to Think One Thought
This post was originally published by Terry Laughlin on Mar. 20, 2012. Since January [in 2012] I’ve been teaching an Effortless Endurance class series at the Greenwich (CT) YMCA — a series of four...
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Stalled Progress? It’s Not a “Plateau”– It’s a Crossroads
This post was originally published by Terry Laughlin on Apr. 6, 2011. S.G. posed a common concern on the Total Immersion Discussion Forum: Six months ago, I could barely swim 2 pool lengths. But...
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Swim Like a SEAL: How T.I. Revolutionized Navy SEAL Swim Training
“Before Terry Laughlin, it was just a matter of getting in the water and getting it done. When I was in BUD/S training, my instructors taught us the way they learned it from their instructors. Now,...
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“Love the Plateau” (If You Wish to Break Through!) and 5 Traits of the...
This post was originally published by Terry Laughlin on May 9, 2011 and is a follow-up companion piece to an Apr. 2011 post from Terry that we published two weeks ago. In my previous post, Stalled...
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READER SUBMISSIONS: Has Swimming Helped You Create an “Illness-Free Zone”...
Terry enjoying his “illness-free zone” during his bout with cancer Any regular readers of our late founder Terry Laughlin’s original blog will remember that even while...
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[VIDEO] TI Swimmer: Athlete or Artist?
[GUEST POST] In the video and article below, TI Coach Shane Eversfield discusses how endurance athletes must balance athletic goals with an artistic process. Shane’s latest e-book, An Introduction to...
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