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Month: September 2009

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  TI Swimming with Shinji Takeuchi Third Lesson 9-18-09

  My TI coach will be out of the country this next month, so I signed up for my next class for today so that I could practice some more things while he is gone. Following my amazing feat of hitting 13 strokes for 25yards, I was actually able to hit 12.5 today! Well, the .5 […]

  September 18, 2009

  Swimming

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  The Two Beat Kick Decreased My Stroke Count!

  On Friday, I learned how to do the two beat kick. Previously, I had no idea what two beat was, nor four or six or two beat crossover kick was. I still don’t. I’ve read the literature and they try to describe in words a physical action and I still can’t get it. Someday I […]

  September 14, 2009

  Swimming

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  TI Swimming with Shinji Takeuchi, Second Lesson

  Yesterday I had my second lesson with Coach Shinji. Once again it was full of insight and watching the video of me swimming afterwards was again painful (haha!). But Coach Shinji is great at breaking down the details of swimming and explaining it well, and also has taught enough people to know that there isn’t […]

  September 12, 2009

  Swimming

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  To Shim or Not to Shim Part II

  Check out this shot of a poster in my PT’s office: It looked eerily like my X-ray many years ago when it was determined that my right leg was about 1/8″ shorter than my left. The whole body gets jacked, the spine even curves to compensate. Impact forces from running get transmitted along a crooked […]

  September 12, 2009

  Injury Prevention, Recovery, Healing, and Performance Enhancement

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  To Shim or Not to Shim

  Around 2004, I had been doing triathlons for about 2 years and was aiming for my first marathon, the NYC marathon, in the fall of 2004. It was during this training period that I went to my physical therapist at the time who took an X-ray of my spine and saw that it was curved, […]

  September 5, 2009

  Injury Prevention, Recovery, Healing, and Performance Enhancement