Our Position on “Survival Swimming” for Infants and Toddlers

We periodically get questions about whether we teach “survival swimming” to infants and toddlers. The interest is usually driven from watching that viral video of the unattended infant falling into a pool with clothes on rolling to the back, swimming to the wall, and hanging on crying. We don’t teach…

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Tempo vs. Speed — Why improving efficiency makes a faster stroke feel slower

When I was teaching Week 4 of my Monday night triathlon swimming class for the Chicago Triathlon Club, I had a swimmer ask me why she felt slower after we had started to rework her timing, balance, and vessel shape.  I’ve introduced the Total Immersion Perpetual Motion Freestyle stroke drills…

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