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Total Immersion Swimming Aids |
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Triathlon
Swimming Made Easy: The Total Immersion Way for Anyone to Master Open-Water Swimming
by Terry Laughlin
$19.99 |
| A clear, practical guide to swimming freestyle better than you ever thought
possible. Not only to swim well enough to breeze through a triathlon swim leg with ease
and confidence; but to reach a Nirvana where the swim is your favorite part. If
you’re not aiming to do a triathlon, but would simply like to swim with ease,
efficiency and confidence, TSME will turn you into a beautiful freestyler with the freedom
to swim in any body of water.
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Extraordinary Swimming
for every body, A guide
to swimming better than you ever imagined
$17.99 |
| If you've
read any Total Immersion book or have been practicing the TI method via
books, DVD or coached instruction, this book will take you to the
next level of understanding effective practice & readiness to swim
better than ever. All four strokes. |
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Total Immerions Self-Coached
Workshop: Perpetual Motion Freestyle in 10 Lessons - DVD
$49.99 |
IThe first
swimming program that lets you take charge of your improvement.
· Learn when and where you want. Customize your lessons to your
needs, abilities and goals. Learn to plan practice sessions and
make informed adjustments--as a professional coach would--as you proceed
from Lesson One to the whole stroke.
The Self-Coaching Advantage:
By teaching yourself, you not only build a better stroke, you even build
a better brain. Neuroscientists say that learning which requires intense
focus and is pursued independently is the best way to stay mentally
sharp at any age. Striving to improve your swimming is perfect for brain
building.
The Self-Coached Workshop goes beyond any previous swim video by
teaching you how to learn, not just how to swim. Lessons and insights
from teaching thousands of adults since 1989 are reflected in dozens of
tips on how to keep your learning on the fast track. |
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First Strokes - Transforming
Novices into Skilled Swimmers - DVD
$31.99 |
First
Strokes shows all four competitive strokes, demonstrated by young
swimmers. Four novices illustrate the stroke characteristics of
first-year swimmers. Six more-seasoned swimmers show how skills evolve
with one or more years of coaching and practice. When you know the
essential skills — those every swimmer should learn first — you can
progress with startling speed. We show each key skill and every
revealing detail above- and below-water, with slow-motion and comparison
video.
First Strokes illustrates and explains:
• Skill One – Cooperate with Gravity: Use — don't fight — gravity to
achieve support, comfort, control and confidence.
• Skill Two – Laser Beam Forward: When you keep head and spine aligned,
you gain control and can make your movements more effective.
• Skill Three – Extend your Bodyline: Complete extension of the bodyline
in every cycle of every stroke, to increase efficiency and save energy.
• Skill Four – Seamless Breathing: Breathing the right way not only gets
oxygen to your muscles; it also makes your stroke more powerful and
effective |
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Outside the Box - A total
Immersion program for success in open water DVD
$36.99 |
| Stop Swimming
in Circles! Open water can be alluring (tropic seas, mountain lakes) and
intimidating (“I’ve never swum with without walls and lane lines around
me”) in equal measure. But it can also be a place to experience a higher
level of personal accomplishment – in ways pool swimming cannot match.
Part One, “Perpetual
Motion Freestyle,” illustrates five key open water techniques that you
can learn in the pool and turn into habits with open water practice.
Terry demonstrates how to replace unfocused swimming with purposeful
practice that develops a Tireless Stroke to hold a consistent pace over
long distances and thousands of uninterrupted strokes; and a Stable
Stroke that resists breakdown in even the roughest conditions.
Part Two, “Swim With Friends” illustrates enjoyable and absorbing
partnered-practice options that develop skills essential for effective
racing: (1) hold your own in the “controlled chaos” of race starts and
turns; (2) save energy by drafting; (3) swim comfortably in a pack; and
(4) get your bearings and navigate unerringly -- but most of all to
enjoy swimming more than you ever have in a pool.
Both parts also show you how to develop “mental stamina” that put you in
a cocoon of concentration amid the unfamiliarity and distractions that
intimidate many pool swimmers in open water.
Running Time: 40 minutes |
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Easy Freestyle DVD
$34.99 |
Easy
Freestyle is the latest (and likely final) update to
the Total Immersion line of freestyle improvement videos.
After working on Easy Freestyle since early March,
Terry
feels it represents something truly ground-breaking in
“ self-help swim-improvement.” First it teaches the unmistakable
advantage of: (1) minimizing energy waste before focusing on
increasing fitness or power; and
(2) minimizing drag first in every aspect of the stroke –
including pull, kick and breathing.
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O2 in H2O DVD
$44.99 |
| A self help
course on breathing in swimming. Nothing is
more essential to a swimmer than air. Yet few swimmers truly understand
how to breathe efficiently. Not just to get air, but to integrate
breathing seamlessly with
the stroke. Breathing is sometimes viewed as a liability or
inconvenience, but when you do it right, breathing can actually make
your stroke better. This video shows you how. |
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Total
Immersion Fist Glove Stroke Trainer
$16.99 |
Fistglove®: How They Work
One essential in improving technique is our ability to work with
the water, using more finesse and less brute strength. But finesse in
the water rarely comes naturally. While "feel of the water" may come
naturally to gifted elite swimmers, the rest of us must learn how to
"feel" the water with our entire body, not just the hands and cease our
endless struggling to plow ahead.
Proprioceptors (specialized nerve endings) in our joints, muscles, and
skin give us constantly updated information on how our joints are
angled, how fast we’re moving our limbs, how our arms and legs are
positioned, and the pressure of the water against various body parts.
This wealth of feedback can overwhelm us if we can’t process it – or can
help us achieve balance and flow if we learn to organize it and use it
correctly. |
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Fistgloves®
help us do that. Using them for the first time, you’ll feel relatively
helpless for the first 5 or 10 minutes. But your brain will seek to
solve this new puzzle by using other sources of information and other
means of working with the water. Almost automatically, you'll start to
swim with more finesse and awareness.
After wearing the gloves for 15 to 30 minutes, swim with open hands.
You'll immediately experience what we call the fistglove® effect – a
rush of information from your previously "ordinary," but now highly
sensitive, hands to your brain that immediately helps you become more
discriminating in how you apply hands to the water, instinctively
choosing angles that give maximum purchase on a highly elusive medium.
You'll also become ultra-sensitive to the importance of "gripping" the
water instead of "slipping" through it.
How to use them. The higher
your ratio of drill-to-swim, the higher percentage of your overall
yardage should be with Fistgloves. In an hour of mainly-drill practice,
you might wear the gloves for the first 40 minutes, then finish the
practice with bare hands. As you increase the amount of swimming, you
might switch to a 50:50 ratio of gloves to bare hands.
Competitive swimmers in training, might use Fistgloves as much as 70% of
the time in early season, gradually reducing that ratio to 30% or less
in mid-season, then increasing Fistglove use in taper to 50% or more.
During taper, the gloves will reduce stress and fatigue and increase
sensitivity and kinesethetic awareness. For developing swimmers, a
novice could use Fistgloves 70% to 80% of the time, an intermediate
swimmer 50% to 70% of the time and an advanced or elite swimmer 30% to
50%. |
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