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Trying to Lower my SPL Part II and Repeatability in Swim Training
Yesterday, the day after my longer swim with LAMVAC’s annual 10K swim, I was feeling a bit tired. Still I went to the pool to limber up and try to lower my SPL again on a 25y pool. Based on my previous attempt and hitting 10 SPL, I decided to try to figure out what…
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Checking Out My 50m SPL
On New Years Day, my Master’s group, LAMVAC, hosts a 10K swim each year. I think this was the first time I actually went and swam this annual swim, although I was pretty sure I would not make it to 10K as I haven’t swam more than 1600y since Ironman CDA! I did want to…
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Trying to Lower my SPL
This week, for kicks, I decided to take one workout to see if I could lower my SPL for 25y to as low as I can get it. My best SPL before this was 12 strokes for 25y. I was determined to do better, but also figure out what I needed to do to actually…
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Tempo Practice Maintaining Strokes Per Length
Monday I swam, thinking a lot about what Coach Shinji and I worked on Saturday. I warmed up and then instead of only practicing Strokes Per Length (SPL) I did SPL with the tempo trainer. As one workout, I will practice SPL without caring about tempo. I just keep trying to maintain the lowest SPL…
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Total Immersion’s Superman Glide
Total Immersion has this drill called the Superman Glide. You basically push off the bottom of the pool (not the side; that’s cheating!) and launch yourself forward into the “Superman” flying position. The object is to practice good streamlining, relaxation and no tension. If you do it right, you will zip farther in the pool…
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TI Swimming with Coach Shinji 12-12-09
Another great session with Coach Shinji this last Saturday. It was a rainy, cold day but us swimmers don’t care; we’re wet anyways. It’s not so nice for coaches who have to stand in the rain though. Everytime I work with him, I always get a few more tidbits of insight from him. Some notes:…
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Learning to Breathe and Sight with Shinji Takeuchi’s TI Swimming 11-13-09
It’s been almost a month since my last lesson with Shinji. My blog was busted until now but finally I can post my notes from my last swim session with him. This session was focused on improving breathing, and also learning TI’s sighting method which was slightly different than what I was doing. Previously I…
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Total Immersion: 13 Strokes for 25 Yards Baby Yeah
On Thursday, I practiced swimming efficiency and tried to maintain as low a stroke count as possible for as many 25 yard lengths as possible. Amazingly, I was hitting 13 strokes for the majority of the lengths, one 12 stroke length, and one 14 when I was getting tired. Some notes: 1. Must be as…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Total Immersion Perpetual Motion Presentation
I’m a big fan of Total Immersion, an outfit based on the east coast that teaches swimming. You might think that there are many people who teach swimming, from coaches to the YMCA to your high school swim team. But after experiencing some of them, I’ve found that Total Immersion has done a better job…
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Total Immersion Swimming with Shinji Takeuchi
Today I went to my first lesson with Coach Shinji Takeuchi, who runs Total Swimming West (TI Swim West). I was getting kind of frustrated with my swimming in that I was improving, but I did not have consistent improvement nor did I have a good sense of what I should be improving. Shinji was…
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From TI Blog: How long can you sustain Fast Swimming?
I just read this off of the Total Immersion blog and had to comment immediately: How long can you sustain Fast Swimming? I found it to be extremely interesting in its discussion on adaptation and about neurological training. He states regarding adaptation: These days, the coaches of elite swimmers are far more likely to give…
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Intermediate to Advanced: The Different Types of Training
In my interactions with my coach M2, I have learned that there are 6 types of training. These are: 1. Neuro-muscular – training of the nervous system to do something either differently, better, or to some form which maximizes efficiency and minimizes effort. Example: super short high speed treadmill intervals for 15-30 seconds per interval,…
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