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Training Advice for Everyone
One of my swimmers is moving out of the area. He and I have been working together for over 2 years and he’s made incredible progress. Here were some suggestions to him on how to approach training without our regular interactions: Progress is rarely linear all the time. You should expect setbacks and reversals of…
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Drills and Focal Points – Reality: A Reflection or Actual?
Recently, I got this comment on one of my dryland recovery drill videos: Comment: When you are showing the dry land elbow position, your hand is dangling below and if there was water, it would be well below the surface. So I don’t understand how this exercise would translate when in the water. It seems…
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Dryland Recovery Practice with Scapular Plane Drill Start
Hey swimmers! Are you having trouble with your recovery? Finding it difficult to move your arm properly from the stroke back’s finish forward to the entry point? Many swimmers have difficulty performing the proper arm motion for freestyle recovery. Try the drill in this video and see if it can help you:
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Adventures in Risky Focal Points
This week I had a client whose 2BK I was trying to tune. Overall, he was swimming pretty well. But something about his propulsion just wasn’t right and he was dropping hips on the breath. We came down to trying to fine tune his 2BK and found that – through me looking underwater at him…
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A Discussion on Catch
I just recently had a client who was asking about the catch and how to execute the stroke back from there. Here is a video going through some elements of the catch that might be helpful for you:
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Recovery as Propulsion
I thought I’d give a little bit more discussion on recovery’s role in propulsion. It’s likely a new concept for many people; I discovered it first when I watched Bill Boomer’s Freestyle Reimagined DVD (I highly recommend watching that if you’re a swim nerd like me!). We focus so much on the catch and pull…
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Dryland New Recovery Practice
Following on my discussion on a new recovery practice we are working with at workshops and the great results I got from it in my own swimming, here is a video on how to practice this on dryland: Give this a try especially if you are having trouble with existing recovery drills that we’ve gone…
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New Recovery Practice
Check out my new recovery video on Youtube: I’ve been watching it in action at Mandy McDougal and Stuart McDougal‘s Total Immersion weekend workshops, and it works incredibly well. Note that I do not think that this means our old recovery drills and concepts won’t work any more. It seems that this teaching technique delivers…
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Total Immersion: The Finish
A quick video on the “Finish” where the hand in the water stroking back reaches the end and exits the water:
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Total Immersion: Can’t Seem to Get the 2BK? Try Cross Crawling
If you’re finding that 2BK coordination is difficult, give this a try…. The kicking practice i typically use with first timers of 2BK is simply, use both hands and hold onto the wall of the pool. Put your head in the water, and push out from the wall while still holding onto it and extend…
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Breath Training for Intra-Abdominal Pressure from the Total Immersion Forums
I thought I’d repost this thread from the Total Immersion forums. It touches on some key points I’ve learned about IAP generation, and the context is for swimming. The full thread is entitled Reasons for the arched back and how to fix it?. User sachintha writes: In a recent underwater video I was surprised to…
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Total Immersion: Ankle Mobility
Ankle mobility is important for swimming well and with the least drag. Swimming with your feet not pointed behind you means you have two feet that are creating drag as you swim. Sometimes it’s a motor control problem. You tell the swimmer to keep the toes pointed behind them and they imprint it, and just…
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Total Immersion: The Dead Bug
The Dead Bug is a funny name for a pretty important exercise. It is called Dead Bug because you lie on the floor with your arms and legs up in the air, just like how dead bugs look when they are dead and lying on their backs. I first learned the Dead Bug from Original…
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Total Immersion: An Assessment for Swimmers Part I
In my work with swimmers, I’ve come to realize that we, as 21st century creatures, are now coming to the pool with a bunch of adaptations due to our lifestyles that are constraining the ability to swim properly and advance as quickly as they could. Over the years, I’ve immersed myself in the physical rehabilitation…
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Total Immersion: Neck Mobility for Swimming
Neck range of motion is important in swimming. The problems manifest themselves in: Forward head on neck where the neck is stuck with the head in a forward of spine position. This puts your head in a deeper than necessary position which makes breathing hard. If you cannot turn your head enough on either side,…
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