Total Immersion: The Revolutionary Way To Swim Better, Faster, and Easier

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Some of the best video content on Total Immersion Swimming is a series of lectures in which you can not only get to know Terry, but also better understand the ideas behind his approach. Once you have lost the fear of having water on your face, you can move on to Lesson 2: Lose the fear of having water in your mouth; and Lesson 3: Learn to breath gently, naturally and calmly in rhythm with your swimming. The more natural your breathing, the more endurance your swimming will have. It continued for months until I was prepared to concede defeat. Then I met Chris Sacca, formerly of Google fame and now an investor and triathlete in training, at a BBQ and told him of my plight. Before I had a chance to finish, he cut me off:

To “swim downhill” with Total Immersion Swimming, you need to position your body properly in the water. This means keeping your head facing straight down, pressing down your chest (see below), and keeping your legs up. The total immersion technique is definitely much, much less scary than it sounds. This swimming technique focuses on getting you to copy elite athletes and learn how to swim like a fish. Keep reading to find out more about this interesting swimming technique. What is the Total Immersion Swimming technique?

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In the first workout — I’ve never had a coach or supervision — I cut my drag and water resistance at least 50%, swimming more laps than ever before in my life. By the fourth workout, I had gone from 25+ strokes per 20-yard length to an average of 11 strokes per 20-yard length. Unbelievable. One of the main criticisms towards total immersion is that it just not look natural. Although that is precisely what its founder wanted it to be (to swim like a fish, not as a human does), some argue that total immersion teaches people wrong concepts, such as to keep your head fully underwater. The Total Immersion Book has a fantastic explanation and practice drills you can do to self-teach and try out on your own.

As water is not our natural environment, we do not lengthen our swim stroke instinctively, which is what you need to do to swim fast.

Lifestyle_Proj @tferriss If it’s wetsuit temperature make sure you have tested flexibility in water for sizing. Know your preference, i.e. shortie or not

If you can press your head down into the water and lift your butt, it really feels like swimming downhill, as you have removed so much drag created by your legs. Last semester, Kevan (my carpool buddy) and I began going in early to use the gym. They have a wading pool with six lanes and a full length swim pool with eight lanes. After spending a few mornings running on one of the dozens of machines, my knees reminded me how much they detest it so I began spending more time in the pool.In the span of less than 10 days, I’ve gone from a 2-length (2 x 20 yards/18.39 meters) maximum to swimming more than 40 lengths per workout in sets of 2 and 4. Here’s how I did it after everything else failed, and how you can do the same… Body rotation is another important aspect of Total Immersion Swimming. By rotating your body as you swim, you create a more efficient and natural stroke. As you must be slow and deliberate in the early stages of learning this method, you learn to swim “in the moment”, concentrating on creating fluid movements in the water.

nohypeActivist @tferriss also: as your legs are your biggest muscles, try to not use them like you would in the 100m or 200m. less legs, more arms about 11 hours ago By actively pressing my head into the water, my legs popped up, making me flatter in the water. This removed all the drag my legs were creating, effectively dragging me down in the water. Learn to breath on both your right and left sides. If there is a chop, it really helps to be able to comfortably turn your head away from the waves to breath. If not, you are choking…not breathing.At the beginning I could only just swim a length of front crawl, coming up and gasping for air, moving my arms and legs in a movement that I hoped desperately would propel me forward. I'd get to the end of the pool exhausted and knowing that what I'd just done was nothing like the elegant and effortless swimming I admire. I don't want to be an elite swimthlete, but I would like to make it a length or two without being exhausted, and having splashed out half the pool en route. I started swimming about 4 years ago–prior, I was a terrible swimmer. Two lengths and I would be exhausted. Every time I got in the water I was afraid I was going to drown. The TI technique is great but it still took me about two years to feel like I can *swim.* Update: Since the publication of the book and DVD, the Total Immersion Method now has a full video course online for a great price. I 100% recommend it. You can view it here. Can You Really Learn To Swim From A Book? danmonfre @tferriss instead of keeping your head down, you’ll recover after your breath by looking forward every 3-5 strokes to see where you’re going I do not know if you know how to do flip turns or not. If not then I would recommend learning if at all possible. This goes for anyone who wants to swim for exercise. Not doing flip turns will wear out a swimmer faster than anything else once you start doing longer sets. Even doing sets of 100s you will save tons of energy by doing flip turns. Which will in turn allow you to do longer sets.