Swim Ultra-Efficient Free Style: The ‘Fishlike’ Technique From Total Immersion

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Terry Laughlin is the world’s most trusted expert on swimming technique. His first book Total Immersion: The Revolutionary Way to Swim Better, Faster, and Easier is the best-selling swimming book ever. His innovative Total Immersion methods have helped a million ‘average’ swimmers around the world swim with a skill, confidence, and satisfaction unmatched by any other approach. Terry’s latest book, Swim Ultra-Efficient Freestyle, is the clearest, simplest, and most comprehensive explanation ever published on swimming technique (and perhaps for any human-movement skill.) Whether you’re a beginner or have swum for decades; whether you swim for health and relaxation or for endurance and speed; you’ll find insights and instruction (visual aids too) on every page that will provide clear direction on how to swim smarter, better . . . faster. You’ll learn about a path-breaking ‘fishlike’ approach to swimming freestyle--the first major innovation in this technique in 100 years. These techniques evolved originally to help late-starting adults (the vast majority self-taught) progress rapidly from struggling to swim a short distance to covering long distances with striking ease and skill. They've subsequently been embraced by swimmers of all kinds—including the U.S. Navy Seals! TI techniques are the world’s most efficient because of two critical innovations: 1. Adapting the balance, streamlined profiles, and integrated propulsion of fish and aquatic mammals to human anatomy; and 2. Distilling the skills and habits of World and Olympic champions that are learnable by anyone--and not dependent on special gifts or talents. With the TI Method, it doesn’t take youth, strength, or athleticism to become the swimmer you always dreamed of being. [You’ll read about Dr. Paul Lurie who took his first TI lesson at age 94; became a youtube sensation—and swam a quarter mile in open water--at 95; and increased his speed 25% at 96. At 97, he swims 20 lengths every morning.] Copyright About the Author Introduction Prologue 1. About Total Immersion 2. Why Haven’t You (Me, and Everyone Else) Swum Better? 3. The Universal Human Swimming Problem 4. How To Swim Efficiently 5. Balance: The Essential Foundation of Efficiency 6. How Streamlining Works 7. Ultra-Efficient Propulsion: Swim From Your Core 8. Ultra-Efficient Armstroke, Part 1: Recovery, Entry and Extension 9. Ultra-Efficient Armstroke, Part 2: Creating Propulsion 10. How To Kick Ultra-Efficiently 11. Seamless Breathing: The Final Piece in a Ultra Efficient Stroke 12. How To Become Ultra-Efficient: Tips for Lifelong Learning 13. From Efficiency to Mastery