This post was previously published by Terry Laughlin on Aug. 7, 2015.
At the Beijing Olympics in 2008, Stany Kempompo Ngangola gained a measure of fame for swimming the 100-meter freestyle.
Not for his speed, but simply for surviving.…
The following guest post by TI Master Coach Gary Fahey was originally published on Mar. 16, 2014.
A blog post discussing kick strategies landed in my inbox a couple of weeks ago, much of it advocating a six-beat kick …
Last week’s post described the proven principles of swimming faster, using a specific algorithm for speed– if you’re wondering what this looks like in practice, this entry from Terry Laughlin’s 2015 training log models that algorithm in a practice set. …
This post was originally published by Terry Laughlin on May 20, 2016.
There are two ways to try to swim faster. One way is what I call the “Limbs, Lungs, and Muscles” approach: Move your limbs as fast …
“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, that’s all changed;
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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 himself as a contractor with an …
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 repeats because I get too winded …
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 segues …
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 be very fast for 1500 …
This week’s post is the final installment in a series of articles we’ve shared this past month on Kaizen Training, all of which have been excerpted from a companion instructional manual that Terry Laughlin created for T.I. workshop attendees, adapted …