Here’s a cool graphic from the NY Times article — a computer-generated fluid dynamics study showing the flow of air around the jet car’s fuselage. The orange areas indicate where resistance is highest. The blue areas represent the lowest …
Laurence swam for me 35 years ago during my first coaching gig, at the US Merchant Marine Academy, and was one of my first coaching successes, improving in 18 months from 2:15 to 1:49 for 200-yards Free. He’s been an …
S.U. asked: I began learning to swim at a TI Workshop in November 2008 and can now swim 19 strokes for 25 meters. Now that my stroke is reasonably efficient, I’ve begun using a Tempo Trainer in whole-stroke practice …
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Brad posted this on the TI Discussion Forum
I know this is an old topic but I was shocked when my Primary Care Physician said that swimming was not very good for weight loss. I’ve had increasing back problems …
This blog excerpts just three posts from a lengthy thread (19 posts by the time I added my two cents) entitled "Any Tips on Helping Hip Rotation" on the Freestyle conference of the Discussion Forum. I’m reposting selections from …
This morning, while reading the NY Times account of the final round of the Masters tournament, these quotes from Tiger Woods got me thinking.
Woods, meanwhile, was distressed and referred to his day as "terrible."I was hitting it awful on …
A common question, posed on the Discussion Forum.
I have been practicing rotating — rather than moving my head — to breathe. I’ve seen video of my stroke and it looked as though I was almost at 90 degree …
In the same discussion thread, TI Coach Eric Desanto raised two fascinating topics that are seldom discussed and rarely understood. The first was "nervous system fatigue."
I have been tentative to add my two cents here, because I …
More from Eric DeSanto
I saw an interview with, I believe, Bill Boomer, about training cats and dogs. Some swimmers, even sprinters, do really well on high volume training. Boomer called these athletes "dogs." Janet Evans was a …