Total Immersion Perpetual Motion Freestyle: Part 2

See highlights from part 2/6 of a lecture given by Total Immersion's Head Coach Terry Laughlin about how they developed their Perpetual-Motion freestyle stroke
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Topic Discussed:
0:01 - Propulsive Forces v Resistive Forces: Winning the Battle
1:14 - Sustainability, Not Velocity
3:55 - Stroke Length x Stroke Rate
4:37 - Why Work Less? The Three Percent Solution
8:10 - Active Streamlining: Swimming with Less Drag
Listen to part 2/6 of a lecture by Total Immersion's Head Coach Terry Laughlin. In this segment, Terry explains how the mechanics and mathematics of swimming often mislead us into thinking we are making progress, when in reality we are being held back.
Total Immersion Perpetual Motion Freestyle
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[@asbald]

Excellent, instructive fayre challenging the commonly held misconceptions about the nature of swimming. So often swimmers, particularly guys, attempt to improve by greater effort, more muscle etc. This way of swimming is a paradigm shift and allows you to look at the whole idea in a very different way.

[@razr7]

@Minkymoo222. Terry is correct. They do decelerate. Look up the 10 meter splits of any world class 100m race and you will see what he says is spot on. Their goal is to "maintain" the top speed they accelerate to through the finish, but they will inevitably slow down (we are talking tenths/hundreths of a second per 10 meter spilts) over the last 30-40 meters.

[@pocketcharts12]

Great lecturer and you should read his book--- TOTAL IMMERSION

[@MrChryslerImperial]

Wow ... love it

[@richardfleming7277]

This is very interesting.

[@MrAvrilLee]

我用英文問得唔好, 想用中文問. 到底 total immersion 同一般游泳概念有乜分別? 身體保持水平, high elbow recovery, high elbow catch, 隻手放前時拉到最直, 呼吸時頭拍實肩膀, 一般夾泳板操練亦要畀耐性去感受捉到幾多水, 唔係一般我地學游水都係咁ga 咩 ? 到底有乜分別?

[@zhongnichu]

very helpful stufffff..

[@BAMFITNESSUSA]

Good stuff.

[@FuckinCoolGuy]

@TheLeilisa According to Stephen Hawkins from Oxford it does

[@emeloche11]

Donovan Bailey won the 1996 gold medal in the 100m dash.

[@thecanhphan8150]

Phần 1&2nois nhiều quá,

[@Minkymoo222]

@maestro2917 well, he has a head, and Sir Alex has a head. that's about where the similarity ends.

[@ConradILIius]

Donavan Bailey won the 100m Sprint in Atlanta in 1996. He's thinking 2000 olympics

[@cheery-hex]

3% energy efficient... omg!

[@kuturgan]

I would like to say in order to make a swimming style more energy efficient one must learn how to optimize respiration. May be the freestyle is not the best style of swimming for a human because in this style we use only 3% of our energy to go ahead. The most energy efficient is to swim under the water, and limit the time to breath on the surface of water. Who knows, may be in couple of years we will learn another swimming style which would be more efficient.

[@Minkymoo222]

@emeloche11 ...and what's more, 100m sprinters NEVER decelerate - they simply do not run out of gas as Terry claims! This guy should stick to swim talk.

[@Minkymoo222]

@pocketcharts12 Plug plug plug

[@kuturgan]

I don't agree with Mr Laughlin on the comparability of energy efficiency of a human and a dolphin. As opposed to dolphins a human must to breathe more frequently and that' why he swims on the surface of water, and a dolphin could keep his breathe more longer time and that' why it swims under the water. So in order to compare with dolphine they must calculate the energy efficiency of a human under the water wich practically has no sens in freestyle. We should compare the comparable!

[@ThatFailedartist]

a painful listen

[@TheKaisersFinest]

WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU IT WAS BEAUTIFUL REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE