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Swim better—and enjoy every lap—with Total Immersion, a guide to improving your swimming from an expert with more than thirty years of experience in the water. Terry Laughlin, the world’s 1 authority on swimming success, has made his unique approach even easier for anyone to master. Whether you’re an accomplished swimmer or have always found swimming to be a struggle, Total Immersion will show you that it’s mindful fluid movement—not athletic ability—that will turn you into an efficient swimmer. This new edition of the bestselling Total Immersion features: -A thoughtfully choreographed series of skill drills—practiced in the mindful spirit of yoga—that can help anyone swim more enjoyably -A holistic approach to becoming one with the water and to developing a swimming style that’s always comfortable -Simple but thorough guidance on how to improve fitness and form -A complementary land-and-water program for achieving a strong and supple body at any age Based on more than thirty years of teaching, coaching, and research, Total Immersion has dramatically improved the physical and mental experience of swimming for thousands of people of all ages and abilities. Read more
Publisher : Touchstone
Publication date : May 18, 2004
Edition : Updated,Subsequent
Language : English
Print length : 320 pages
ISBN-10 : 0743253434
ISBN-13 : 37
Item Weight : 1.38 pounds
Dimensions : 7.38 x 0.8 x 9.25 inches
Best Sellers Rank: #46,625 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #5 in Swimming (Books) #90 in Sports Coaching (Books)
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Please understand, I'm rating the book here, not the swimming method. Understand also that I'm old, a senior who led an active outdoor life until my knees gave out, and I washed up into the backwater of swimming and kayaking, all that remains for the older athlete when your legs give out. There are a lot of similarities between TI swimming and kayaking, as both are somewhat concerned with a principle of that naval architects call "hull speed." Conceptually, the idea of hull speed has been known since ancient times, although modern mathematical formulae can define it precisely. It's simple: All else being equal, long slender ships go faster than shorter, wider ones. If you want to go faster with the same human propulsion engine, you either make your boat longer or you make the beam (the width) narrower. In TI swimming, you increase speed and glide by shaping your body into a longer hull by keeping one arm (alternatingly) extended, and you reduce your beam (width) in the water by swimming on your side. You use body torsioning for propulsion as well as arm motion, and you don't kick a lot because kicking disturbs the smooth flow of water around the body hull. Essentially, in TI swimming, you make your body into a sleek kayak hull, and by smoothly separating the water column in front of you, and smoothly bringing it back together again behind you, you get more "slippery" and thus achieve higher hull speed. And you don't splash or cause water turbulence that slows you down. I first heard of TI swimming from an Australisn woman in a hostel in British Columbia. She took 20 minutes to describe it to me, and it improved my swimming efficiency immensely the same day. Then I bought the Kindle edition of the TI instruction book, and my progress stalled immediately. Words, words, words! Notwithstanding what other reviewers have said, the book is hortatory to excess in wanting to convert those already converted, it lacks photographs, drawings and other illustrations to "show" you visually what's going on. It relies on the minutiae of "coach talk" (although professing to do the opposite!) for every description, and speaks excessively of "training" and "drills," which may appeal to a certain class of competitive athlete interested in winning races, but leaves me dead on arrival. Without illustrations, the book is sheer drudgery to read. I return to it now and again as ritual penance for perceived wrongdoing, and each time I return to it, I find myself bored to death and wanting to review it on Amazon to warn others like me that the method is good, but the writing of the book is just plain bad. A competitive swimmer or triathlete would understandably disagree because coaching, training, drills and dedication may be music to his ears. I've had the book a year now, and haven't been able to finish it. I watched every TI video on YouTube and even bought one of the TI videos on "breathing" (worthless, same criticism as of the book) and just by watching the YouTube videos, I've been able to master some of the techniques. I like the method; it's good, but I understand it simply as good naval architecture designed to increase hull speed. It works. It's graceful and quiet. But TI needs to hire a professional technical writer to rewrite a version with illustrations for the common man who isn't a competitive swimmer or triathlete, and who isn't interested in personal bests or races, a version for somebody who just wants to learn from good pictures and illustrations with well-designed, descriptive captions, and wants to swim effortlessly and gracefully in a noncompetitive world of his own.
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Reviewed in the United States on May 15, 2015 by Soloviajero
Not being able to swim for most of my adult life, was daunting at me a little, so I subscribed to a local Bally Sports Club and bought this book. After 3-4 months of doing exercises from it, I decided to give it a go - and I didn't sink! Of course it wasn't Michael Phelps' quality swimming, but I was going from one side of the pool to the other several times. With time, it got better and now I can proudly say that I am a decent swimmer. Thank you Terri. Maybe one day I'll visit Terry's seminar for a face to face, but until then, I'm very happy!
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Reviewed in the United States on February 22, 2018 by M.B.
At 57 years old I am learning how to swim in order to compete in a triathlon. I realize my old way of swimming was not much more than dragging myself through the water and trying not to drown. The drills and instructions in this book are giving me a new way to look at swimming. It’s only been a few weeks of work but I feel good about this method
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Reviewed in the United States on September 30, 2021 by Nick Demos
I have always loved swimming although I have never been good at it. Only way I ever felt comfortable in the water was on my back or on my side. This book made me realize why! The techniques are helping me swim better and enjoy it more. I the only thing I don't like is the endless attempts at trying to sell more of the same. I will not purchase videos or anything else. I would however go to a live seminar to get some one on one time with a TI instructor. Great book overall!
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Reviewed in the United States on May 11, 2019 by Deltonagirl
I have been swimming the "wrong way" for about 70 years. This book is an eye opener for me; I wish I could give it 5 stars, but the impossibility of the writing gets in the way of that. There are five things we need to do to swim the TI way: roll the whole body to both the right and left; reach with each arm in its turn as if for the wall ahead; aim the navel at the side walls when rolling side to side; use the power generated by the hips to kick; and "swim downhill"--a term that means push down your "buoy" or chest to achieve a flotation balance. This goes contrary to the years of swimming most of us have come through. But it does make sense in the pool and it is a most valuable book in spite of its impossible "drills" its constant use of strange and weird terms. If you can sift out the valuable parts you will have come a long way.
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Reviewed in the United States on February 3, 2014 by Peter C Parsons
I used to be afraid of the water. I don't have a pool, and had limited time to learn to swim. I read this book before going on a week long vacation, staying at a hotel with a pool. Every day I would go out to the pool and try a few exercises from this book. I'm pleased to say, I can now swim a little. I'm not very good, but I blame that on lack of practice. If you've had a difficult time learning to swim, read this book. It has helped me immensely.
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Reviewed in the United States on December 30, 2020 by TheLasko
This review is for the kindle version. Pros: this book seems to focus mainly on "why" you should change your mindset and approach to swimming and treat swimming as a skill. Cons: the execution and "how to" is where this book falls flat. There are no chapter summaries of the drills. Instead, I find myself reading, re-reading, and re-reading paragraphs again, just to understand what are the details of the drill to take note of. For the first three drills, I kept re-reading to try to understand what the "water in the corner of the googles" meant... but I still haven't discovered it :( It would have been great if there were just bullet point summary of each drill and which physical cues to dial into. I'm sure the method has its merits, and I actually found the online videos quite helpful. I imagine the video instructional would be much more beneficial. Summary: Buy this book if you want to be convinced why you should approach swimming as a skill rather than a workout. If you're already convinced of this and actually want to learn, I would suggest using other (perhaps video) learning materials.
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Reviewed in the United States on December 15, 2016 by Amazon Customer
Absolutely fantastic. I was a swimmer in high school into college and this book has re-ignited my passion for the sport. Its been about 20 years since I've dove in and now its challenging and fun again! GREAT read!
Reviewed in the United States on November 11, 2017 by Mike Mohrmann