Swimming in Place
Try it.
For each action, you have to create an equal and opposite reaction.
There are many lessons to be learned.
I cannot promise that it will improve your swimming.
However, it is an awesome experiment.
Try it.
For each action, you have to create an equal and opposite reaction.
There are many lessons to be learned.
I cannot promise that it will improve your swimming.
However, it is an awesome experiment.
First we talked about Posture. Then we put power in our Pull. For part three of our four part series on Efficient Swimming Basics: Drive Rotate! This is quite possibly the most common feedback that I have for comfortable swimmers who are looking to improve. Perhaps swimmers *think* that they are rotating because they turn…
I’m not going to tell you how to workout during isolation. I’m not even going to suggest that you have to! What I am going to tell you is that it’s going to be okay. Even when you could, you didn’t have to swim everyday. You didn’t even have to swim more than a few…
In 2017 I swam the 20 km Mercer Island Marathon Swim, around Mercer Island near Seattle, Washington. I was fortunate to have a kayaker assigned to me. She was supportive, enthusiastic, motivational – everything you want your support kayaker to be – and she had a GoPro. I had not yet embraced the GoPro world….
Do you feel that you get winded easily when you swim? Do you continuously exhale when you face is in the water? Are you able to get oxygen in and out at a rate that sustains you for the distance that you’re endeavoring? Do you depend on breathing to a single side? Or maybe you…
How many times have you had a bright idea in the shower? Or while swimming? The famous neurobiologist and author, Oliver Sacks, famously came to shore mid swim to “discharge his thoughts”. We have our best thoughts in the water. Why not write them down? They have waterproof notebooks, you know. But that’s not really what…
The other day I was at one of our beautiful mountain lakes in the Cascade range of Southern Oregon. Towering over the water with remnants of winter spotting it’s back, the view of nearby volcano, Mount McLoughlin, takes my breath away. I welcome the crisp, clear water here at Lake of the Woods, a natural…