I just got Total immersion book yesterday.
Have read part 1 of the book and just started doing the drills today.
It seems an excallent way to swim and definatly will improve my f/s.
But i'm a bit weary because it's so comercail. so my question is,
Is Total immersion as good a way to swim as it makes out?
or is it the best way to learn how to swim?
Are there better books out there that teach you how to swim well(properly)?
Hope that makes sense
Swifty
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Originally posted by scyfreestyler
Is overtraining a wishful shortcut?
I think you are oversimplifying things just a bit.
What is overtraining and who is simplifying?
Someone (Einstein) said something to the tune of:
every solution should be the simplest, but not simpler than the simplest.
Mark Schubert's -and in the 60s, George Haines'- Olympic training, that is overtraining.
Masters swimming is not.
geochuck claimed earlier to train 800 per day, having done 54.6 in 100 meter free Long Course in 1954, and that more yardage is mindless and garbage.
Beware of simplifying.
54.6 didn't exist in the world in 1954, Scholes won gold in 1952 with a 57.4, Henricks won gold and set a record with a 55.4 in 1956, Devitt won gold and set a record with 55.2 in 1960.
geochuck is 73.
His 54.6 is invisible in the books.
Graham Johnston was 72 in 2002.
He is visible in the books as an Olympian in the 1500 free in 1952.
At 72 in 2002 he went 5:58.xx in the 500 yards free and 58.xx in the 100 yards free at the 2002 USMS Short Course Nationals in Hawaii.
With 25,000 yards of training per week, for years including the year of 2002.
There are no short cuts to factual data.
But there is cheap talk that wasn't and won't be backed up with factual data.
Originally posted by scyfreestyler
Is overtraining a wishful shortcut?
I think you are oversimplifying things just a bit.
What is overtraining and who is simplifying?
Someone (Einstein) said something to the tune of:
every solution should be the simplest, but not simpler than the simplest.
Mark Schubert's -and in the 60s, George Haines'- Olympic training, that is overtraining.
Masters swimming is not.
geochuck claimed earlier to train 800 per day, having done 54.6 in 100 meter free Long Course in 1954, and that more yardage is mindless and garbage.
Beware of simplifying.
54.6 didn't exist in the world in 1954, Scholes won gold in 1952 with a 57.4, Henricks won gold and set a record with a 55.4 in 1956, Devitt won gold and set a record with 55.2 in 1960.
geochuck is 73.
His 54.6 is invisible in the books.
Graham Johnston was 72 in 2002.
He is visible in the books as an Olympian in the 1500 free in 1952.
At 72 in 2002 he went 5:58.xx in the 500 yards free and 58.xx in the 100 yards free at the 2002 USMS Short Course Nationals in Hawaii.
With 25,000 yards of training per week, for years including the year of 2002.
There are no short cuts to factual data.
But there is cheap talk that wasn't and won't be backed up with factual data.
