Comments on: “Guaranteed” Speed: Swim Faster the Smart Way

By: Keith Bowden

Keith Bowden — Tue, 19 Jul 2016 00:31:00 +0000

You are an amazing man. It’s wonderful watching you and how you swim. The in-depth understanding you provide along with the finer detail has enabled me to begin basic swimming @ 45 years of age in all the strokes. Had it not been for yourself I’d never have learned swimming… Thank you.

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By: Terry Laughlin

Terry Laughlin — Tue, 22 Dec 2015 16:04:54 +0000

Matt Is this the same as Combat Swimmer Stroke?

By: Matt Bowers

Matt Bowers — Sat, 19 Dec 2015 12:45:00 +0000

Hey TI, I am a big fan and I used your program to help me prepare for Air Force Special Operations Combat Control pipeline. The issue I am now having is that I am training with gear such as booties and heavy jet fins, and a mask, and we use a lead arm trail arm stroke which I didn’t really prepare for. I’m having some trouble, do you have any advice for this type of stroke and equipment? I think it would benefit a lot of military special operations personnel if TI would develop a program specifically for them. The material that is out there on the Web right now is not enough, I think you guys should fill in that gap! Please let me know what you think.

Matt

By: Fred Nurk

Fred Nurk — Wed, 21 Oct 2015 05:34:00 +0000

The tempo is pre set at 1.24 using the tempo trainer. The rest are measured.
And yes, push off needs to catered for when timing strokes as stroke 1 only occurs some way after the turn and push off.

By: Sarah

Sarah — Wed, 21 Oct 2015 03:08:00 +0000

I presume that’s because the time for the push-off adds a few seconds. Perhaps Terry knows that his push-off takes 5.58 seconds.

By: David

David — Tue, 20 Oct 2015 23:41:00 +0000

I would love to apply this to my own swimming, but I can’t follow the math. How did you calculate the tempos above? For example, if the first length was 13 strokes in 21.7 seconds, when I divide 21.7 by 13 I get 1.669. How do your get 1.24 seconds/stroke?

By: Fred Nurk

Fred Nurk — Tue, 20 Oct 2015 20:51:00 +0000

Great article Terry. After a great face to face session with Stuart in LA I went out and bought a tempo trainer. Used it for the first time yesterday.

See thread here

http://www.totalimmersion.net/forum/showthread.php?t=8429

Now I need to start doing some sets that get’s me the best use out of it.

I like how you use your 25’s to extrapolate to a 1500m. The only problem is being able to swim that pace for 66 lengths. I have managed to get my 1500m under 30 minutes in fact more like 28.5. I am able to swim 6×100 at say 1:35 pace on 1:45 but would not be able to keep that up for a full mile. Hopefully the TT will help me get there.

Streak on the TI forums.