This clip is a one-minute (approx) promo piece we produced yesterday to include as a trailer on the new Outside the Box DVD. It gives a feel for what we do at our Open Water Adventure in Eleuthera. Shot …
I’ve worked with many triathletes and competitive swimmers in the Upper Midwest. When someone comes in for an appointment, I could go all day on video analysis, and I often think that’s what the less-than-enthusiastic swimmer wants me to do, …
This fall I extended my usual summer break from pool training, into November, swimming in Lake Awosting until its temperature dropped to a brisk 45 degrees on Oct 31. That was two weeks ago, but I’ve been slow to …
Nov 17 Today I swam the 5 x 500 test set from five days ago in reverse. Here’s how it went.
10 x 50 on :50 (6:52)
5 x 100 on 1:40 (6:52)
4 x 125 on 2:00 …
We just finished editing our latest video yesterday. I expect it to release on Dec 1. It’s called Outside the Box and is a guide to open water. As I watched the final edit …
Brian Vande Krol, TI Coach in Denver, sent me this email query today, which raises perhaps the most provocative question in all of swimming:
>>From time to time, I’ve heard you mention a study about olympic swimmers and power output. …
In a recent, fairly brief, pool practice I did only one set of timed repeats – 3 rounds of 3 x 100 IM on 1:50. I’ll recap it here as a way of illuminating my thinking process, and particularly why …
Steven Munatones, proprietor of 10kswimmer.com asked me if I’ve used the Endless Pools at our Swim Studio to train for cold water acclimatization. In fact I have often trained regularly in EP’s and gained marked benefits for my open water …
Crazy Men in Halloween Plunge
Willie Miller and I swam at a local lake on Oct 31, Halloween. It had snowed four days earlier and there were still patches of snow an inch or two deep alongside the trail …
On December 15, 1965, the first space rendezvous occurred when Walter Schirra and Thomas Stafford brought their Gemini 6 spacecraft within 30 centimeters of the Gemini 7 spacecraft, piloted by Frank Borman and Jim Lovell. But this was not the first attempt at …