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What’s the Deal with Kicking in Freestyle Swimming?
There always seems to be some controversy surrounding kicking in Freestyle swimming. In the TI forums, someone posed a query about kicking and here is how I answered it, with some minor edits: Some thoughts about kicking that I’ve discovered: 1. There are those who can kick to propel themselves at speed, and those who…
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Swim Optimization: Beyond Balance, Streamline, and Propulsion
In the current TI method, we like to talk about the 3 stages of teaching progression: Balance, Streamline, and Propulsion. Generally speaking, mastering swimming requires mastering skills in those 3 areas in that order. One should generally have some basic level of mastery before progressing to the next level or else they will have difficulty…
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Postural Considerations for Swimming
One of the biggest issues I see first with my swimming clients is their posture. When they cannot get their spine aligned properly, nearly everything about swimming is very difficult. We start with balance in the water, but if you cannot get truly horizontal in the water, then balance is hard to achieve. Most of…
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Eating for Recovery
A while back when I was still racing Ironman, I figured out that taking protein powder mixed in sports drink for the days after my long training day could bring in recovery by one whole day. Still, my recovery was up to 3 days after, meaning it was really tough to do a decent workout…
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6.5 Month Update on my EVOUltrafit and POV Training
It’s been about 6.5 months since I started training with EVOUltrafit. Here’s the update: 1. Whenever I start a new training system, I need to learn and internalize the vocabulary of the system. In order to solicit the correct training responses, Charles Maka, my coach at EVOUltrafit, will often give seemingly vague or convoluted answers.…
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Truths about Spearing Angle in Freestyle
This post was sparked by some discussion in the forums on finding the perfect spearing angle. Here’s my take on all aspects of the spearing angle during Freestyle. There are two spearing angles: depth and horizontal. Most people think of spearing angle as mostly depth. Actually, you can also spear at a horizontal angle. Using…
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More Notes on Achieving the Early Vertical Forearm
NOTE: Portions of this post were drawn from my posts in the Total Immersion forums. A while back, I wrote a post about my path to achieving the Early Vertical Forearm or EVF. Over a year now of coaching TI, I thought I’d capture all my EVF thoughts into one place. Pre-requisites for EVF: 1.…
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Tips on Turning a Masters Workout into a Total Immersion Practice
For those of you swimming in Masters workouts and want to continue to incorporate TI learnings and principles, here are some tips: General Tips: 1. Practice maintaining mental focus on each lap, to do whatever it is you are practicing for those lengths or laps. 2. Train your brain to keep active for the entire…
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ARPWave and EVOUltrafit: Rehab and Training via Electrostim
In my journey to find the ultimate and most efficient training methods, I came across the next stop in my quest at Dave Asprey’s Bulletproof Conference back in January. There I met Dr. Justin Marchegiani of Just In Health and Jay Schroeder and Charles Maka of EVOultrafit. Both of them specialize in using electrostim devices…
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Functional Movement Screen Level 2 with Dr. Mark Cheng
Last year, I took the FMS online certification class and it left me wanting more information. Screening someone for imbalances is fine, but what do you do with them afterwards? Getting some corrective exercises prescribed to me was great, but I didn’t have a great idea on how to prescribe correctives to someone else via…
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The Functional Movement Screen, Corrective Exercises, Movement Patterns, and Fixing Me!
A while back, my sports med doc put me through the Functional Movement Screen or FMS. The FMS is a set of 7 physical tests, designed to capture movement imbalances between your left and right sides. Research has shown that movement imbalances are a great predictor of potential for injury. With the FMS, trainers and…
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