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Swim 3 Open Water Miles and Enjoy Every Stroke? Yes!
This is a guest post by TI/OW enthusiast Christian Miles of Washington DC Back in January I’d registered for the 3-mile open water swim event– part of the Kingdom Swim in Newport, VT–scheduled for July...
View ArticleLife Lessons from Diana Nyad?
The below is a guest post by psychotherapist Jeanne Safer PhD, a thoroughly Kaizen TI student taking weekly lessons at the TI Swim Studio in New Paltz for 10 years. This article was originally...
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Video: Swimming for ‘Epic Experience’
Last week during TI OW camp on the Mediterranean, in Ciralu Turkey, Coach Mat Hudson posted this on his Facebook wall: “Johnny Widen [a TI coach from Sweden] asked if I keep my mind completely...
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Crossing Gibraltar Strait: A Journey to Joy
On October 11, I swam across Gibraltar Strait, with TI colleagues Lennart Larsson of Orebro, Sweden and Tommi Patila of Helsinki, Finland. We swam 18km (11+ miles) in 5 hours 18 minutes. Water...
View ArticleBad Advice: Tell Yourself, “This feels good.”
Last week (Nov 6 to be precise) the NY Times published an article with the headline Keep Telling Yourself: “This Workout Feels Good.” This is a prime example of what I call the Western Industrial...
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SAME Strokes for Different Folks
Different strokes for different folks is a seldom-questioned axiom among old-school swim coaches. It says that people with different body types and goals should use widely varying styles. Put another...
View ArticleSwim Faster; Be Healthier (Maybe even live longer!)
When you train the TI way, efforts you expend to swim faster aren’t for the momentary ego gratification of the time itself, nor for the higher placing it may bring in an event. The more compelling...
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Meditation, Marines, and Mindful Swimming
In the NY Times Magazine piece, Breathing In Vs. Spacing Out writer Dan Hurley describes the importance of balancing two types of thinking for optimal brain health. Hurley reports that the psychologist...
View ArticleI Don’t Want to Become a Stiff, Sore Old Person
This is the second guest post by noted writer and blogger Mariah Burton Nelson. It’s an honor to feature a respected author and thinker like Mariah. We’re delighted she’s thinking a lot about her...
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The Evolutionary Instinct to Efficiency
What’s the connection between evolution, snow-shoveling, and swimming-improvement? The past few days brought a snow-storm of historic proportions–18 to 24 inches, atop 10 inches from a week earlier....
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