Total Immersion Swimming

Many very fit, strong runners/cyclists find swimming a struggle: it’s hard to get enough air, you’re out of breath after a few laps, and it’s not fun. Everyone can swim better:  this one-day workshop will give you a whole new way of thinking about swimming and introduce you to the fundamentals of a graceful, efficient freestyle stroke:
Balance. Learn to cooperate with - rather than fight - gravity. Balance gives you a comfortable, weightless and stable body position. It also allows you to immediately replace “survival stroking‟ with a long, relaxed, unhurried stroke -- the swimming equivalent of jogging or walking during a long run. Balance is the foundation of control and confidence that paves the way for every skill that follows.
Streamlining. Drag or water resistance does more than anything else to rob you of speed and endurance. Streamlining is the solution. In Passive Streamlining, you shape your body to be longer, sleeker, more hydrodynamic. In Active Streamlining, you learn to move through the water rather than stir it up or push it aside. Reduce drag and immediately swim farther, faster, with less effort.
Effective Propulsion. We’ll teach you to propel more effectively and save energy in two ways: (i) Channel available forces (gravity and body mass) instead of generating muscular forces; and (ii) Shift the workload from weaker, fatigue-prone muscles in shoulders, arms and legs to powerful and fatigue-resistant muscles in the core.
Swimmers in the Effortless Endurance workshop improve energy-efficiency by an average of 40% in just one day! (It takes hundreds of hours of hard training to increase fitness by even half that much.)