At 20 I thought my inborn ability would allow me to progress no farther. At 40, I began rebuilding my stroke based on three Elements of Efficiency. After learning them, I swam faster at 55 than I had at 20, …
“The TI Method will not allow you to fail.” Tim Ferriss
Tim Ferriss’s initial swimming goal was to win a New Year’s bet by swimming 1000 meters in open water by year-end. In April, after dozens of failed lessons, …
“TI completely changed how I looked at things I formerly thought were impossible.” Tim Ferriss
Tim Ferriss has achieved global fame for prodigious feats of skill, learned in record time. Within six months of his first tango lesson, he made …
It is never too late to learn how to be an effective swimmer. Just ask Paul Lurie.
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0:01 – Swimming that Changes Your Life
0:10 – Paul Lurie: Ageless …
Terry Laughlin discusses strategies for open water swim training that include stroke tempo
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0:01 – Opening Day at Lake Minnewaska
0:15 – Training Strategy for Open Water Swimming
0:57 – Stroke …
As you read previously, Tim Ferriss progressed in just eight weeks from being exhausted after 20 yards in a pool to feeling fresh and stress-free after 2000 yards in the ocean. For most aspiring or struggling swimmers, that would be …
Old-school swimming methods treat the arms and legs as having unconnected functions. As if we had an ‘Arms Department’ charged with pulling and a ‘Leg Department’ deputized to kick. And the body? Inconvenient baggage we must drag along.
A fundamental …
In 1936, British zoologist James Gray described an inexplicable phenomenon: Dolphins were capable of swimming at 23 mph—700% faster than their power should permit. He called it the Delphine Mystery.
Seventy-seven years later, scientists still aren’t sure precisely how …
I was introduced to the concept of balance (by an insightful and unconventional coach named Bill Boomer), when I was nearly 40. The first time I did a balance drill—though it was less precise than those we teach now—I recognized …
The well-known business philosopher and personal development speaker, Jim Rohn, said, "All disciplines affect each other. Every new discipline affects all of our other disciplines. Every new discipline that we impose on ourselves will affect the rest of our personal …