(Terry mid-stroke, poised to flick the toes of the bottom leg to drive his top hip down and entering hand forward, and propel him into a streamlined position on the other side)
This week we shift our focus to …
Terry leaps off a cliff in Eleuthera, the Bahamas, December 2006 (photo: Dennis O’Clair)
Continuing with the theme of goal-setting, which we explored in last week’s post– “Strategies for Achieving Your Breakthrough Season: Success is Not the Result …
“Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.”
– Anonymous
The above quote was one of Terry’s favorite epigrams in his latter years. Its message so resonated with his …
(Top to Bottom: Terry, Lennart Larsson, and Tommi Patilla swimming the Gibraltar Strait, 10/11/13)
“It’s thrilling to have mastered a form of training that offers a mathematically precise—almost ‘guaranteed’—way of improving my speed. The accompanying video illustrates how it …
This week we revisit one of our most popular blog posts from 2016– a post from Terry on the metacognitive aspects of skill acquisition (i.e. “learning how we learn”) and how that relates to Total Immersion’s mindful, kaizen approach to …
Last month we shared a blog post on “Endurance Skills: A Practice Set to Improve Balance, Streamline, and Focus.” This week we delve deeper into the topic of endurance. We revisit Terry’s March 2017 blog post on the topic of …
(Terry post-swim at Lake Awosting– in 53F–Nov. 2009, a year after this ’08 blog)
FROM THE ARCHIVES:
As the weather cools, we take a look back at a post on cold open water swimming that Terry wrote for the …
We here at T.I. would like to thank Tim Ferriss once again for honoring Terry last week on the recent 1 year anniversary of his passing on 10/20. In one of our previous blog posts this past summer,…
Terry (center) at 2006 Masters World Championship
In a blog post two weeks ago, we shared the “Endurance Skills” practice set that Terry Laughlin (founder of Total Immersion) offered in swim clinics that he taught at the Multisport World Expo …
(Pictured above: Tempo Trainer Pro by Finis )
Last week’s post on “Endurance Skills” illustrated a practice set that included the use of the “Tempo Trainer” pacing device– a waterproof electronic “metronome” worn while swimming– in one of the sets. …