Terry Laughlin Founder and Head of Total Immersion is coming to the UK

Total Immersion: Effortless Endurance Swimming

Sat 2nd June 2012
in Windsor 1 day workshop 8am til 4.00pm. 3 1/2 hours pool instruction , Remaining time including working lunch is classroom based including video analysis
Would you like to be able to swim a mile or more with easy grace, enjoy every stroke, and feel energized, not exhausted when you finish? Would you like to make swimming the best part of triathlon or swim confidently in open water? Our Effortless Endurance workshop will help you achieve those goals, give you a stroke you’ll be proud of, and a satisfying way to enjoy great health.

During the workshop, you’ll learn the three foundation skills of effortless distance swimming:
Balanced and Stable
Become ‘weightless’ by learning to cooperate with—not fight—gravity. Learning balance transforms struggle into smoothness and calms churning legs. It also brings the body control—and mental calm—necessary to learn every skill that follows.

Sleek and Slippery
Learn to move through water, rather than move it around, by: (i) Shaping your body to be longer, better aligned, more hydrodynamic; and (ii) Stroking in ways that minimize waves and turbulence. Slipperyswimming means you travel farther—easier—on each stroke.
Rhythmic and Fluent
Replace arm-and-leg churning with surprising, yet effortless, power by connecting arm-and-leg actions to rhythmic, relaxing weight shifts. Instead of generating muscular force you’ll direct ‘available’ forces of body mass and gravity.

**This workshop is recommended for those who can swim 50 meters or more of crawl stroke or who have studied TI skills previously via DVD. The workshop includes expert instruction, individualized feedback and video analysis

Sunday 3rd June in Windsor - Easy Speed Workshop
3 1/2 hours pool instruction , Remaining time including working lunch is classroom based including video analysis
Replace guesswork—and heedless hard work—with the only guaranteed way to swim faster: ‘Hardwire’ your brain and nervous system to maintain a long, fluent, and relaxed stroke while swimming as far and fast as you choose. In this workshop, we’ll teach you to do this via three steps:

Personalize Stroke Length. Find your optimal range of stroke counts (SPL range) for pool practice based on your height and skill characteristics.

Adapt Stroke Length. Learn to make strategic use of each stroke count in your personal range to swim farther or faster with minimum strain and maximum ease.

Blend Stroke Length and Rate. Learn to use a Tempo Trainer in combination with your personal range of stroke counts to create (i) Sustainable Speed - the easiest way to maintain consistent pace for any distance; and (ii) Smart Speed—the easiest way to increase pace.

This approach replaces one-size-fits-all workouts with practice that is completely personalized and will bring a mathematical specificity and predictability to your practice planning and set design