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Minimum Amount Of Practice Part 3

Rotate sport emphasis (if you have multiple sports to train for). Here is an idea multi-sport athletes might work with. Instead of always trying to give an equal 1/3 of your resources to each sport, you may emphasize one sport for a period of time while giving a...

Minimum Amount Of Practice Part 2

Devote part of the pre-season to building a big base. Part of getting your body and mind ready for improvement in your achievement season each year is putting in the long and low-intensity distance that gradually stimulates the body tissues to build up and prepare for...

Minimum Amount Of Practice Part 1

I want to bring up a complicated topic without delving into that complexity. There is so much that could be said about how to train enough on limited time, and there are a lot of experienced people out there on the topics we can draw from. Yet I would like to provide...

Train In Your Imagination

Some time ago, in the book called Train Your Mind, Change Your Brain by Sharon Begley I read about this idea that is being put into practice in therapy and in some sports and arts training programs – to train for an action by simply imagining yourself doing it. I have...

Going Beyond Basics – Part 3

What should your improvement expectation be for each Step in the skill progression? Stage 1 – It Gets Easier Generally, the benefits of Step 1 – Stroke Control skills – will be that you are able to swim a lot easier at your normal distances. Why? With fundamental TI...

Going Beyond Basics – Part 2

Here is a question for you… If you faithfully follow the TI freestyle drill sequence, use focal points well, mix it in with your whole stroke swimming, and take your time to master every piece – will you eventually turn into a faster swimmer? Or, in terms of our...

Going Beyond Basics – Part 1

I received a comment on the latest blog post ‘Improve Swimming Speed Part 1‘, and it grieved me a bit. This swimmer wrote: “I learned crawl by myself with the TI method over 10 years ago. I quickly managed to swim 1500m and more. But that’s really my only...

Correcting Your Stroke By Yourself

Have you experienced some sore spots, strange sensations, or actual pain while swimming recently? Even I have. My body is not ‘old’ but I can feel my vulnerabilities as well as any one can. Once while spending some weeks back in the local pool for my practices instead...

Laminated Practice Cards

This is what I did after discovering the TI method in 2001. I scoured the book and any other TI resources to extract all the written practice sets I could find. I wrote them down (in TI code language) on small colored index cards and then laminated them so I could use...

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