Archive for October, 2007

Questions on Total Immersion Swimming

Wednesday, October 31st, 2007

(Cross-posted on [info] trigeeks.) I can’t find a good LJ swimming community, so… Is anyone here a fan of Total Immersion swimming? Have recently been trying it for the first time. http://www.totalimmersion.net/

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Total Immersion swimming videos (Part 1)

Saturday, October 27th, 2007

Here are some of the clearest videos of the Total Immersion freestyle swimming technique I could find, to see how I am trying to swim now. Note how slowly they move their arms, how little they kick (only 2 beats), and yet how smoothly

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Total Immersion swimming videos (Part 2): "Catch-up" stroke technique

Friday, October 26th, 2007

Here’s Part 1, with several videos of coaches swimming the Total Immersion way. A problem I have is that while I have increased my stroke efficiency by 40%, I swim more slowly than before, now. Video of Australian Grant Hackett swimming

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Total Immersion swimming videos

Friday, October 26th, 2007

Here are some of the clearest videos of the Total Immersion freestyle swimming technique I could find, to see how I am trying to swim now. Note how slowly they move their arms, how little they kick (only 2 beats), and yet how smoothly

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Total Immersion Swimming Breaststroke

Wednesday, October 24th, 2007

Check out this demonstration of the Breaststroke using the techniques of Total Immersion Swimming. Watch how long and how far the swimmer glides. This is the whole idea behind this style of swimming, maximize the natural ability of your

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Tri Total Immmersion Swimming

Thursday, October 18th, 2007

I have never competed in a tri-athalon, and can safely say that I never will. But it seems that for lots of tri-athletes the swim is the toughest part of the competition. Which is why Total Immersion Swimming is the perfect solution.

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Tired. My ITBS. "Total Immersion" swimming.

Friday, October 5th, 2007

Got many replies from triathletes and runners to my questions yesterday about my neck and knee pain. Much of my body is still sore now: my trapezius, outside of my right knee (which I definitely feel when I walk), hamstrings, quads,

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Stroke Count in Total Immersion Swimming

Thursday, October 4th, 2007

So for the past week I’ve been counting strokes, the number of strokes it takes me to get from one end of the pool to the other. This is one of the training methods in the Total Immersion Swimming DVD.

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