Terry Laughlin's renowned 'Total Immersion' method fundamentally changes
the way swimmers move their bodies through the water. This book provides a
self-teaching programme based on Laughlin's thirty years of coaching.Even though swimming is the closest thing to a perfect exercise you can
name, too few people experience its full benefits. That's because most find
themselves fighting to stay afloat, struggling for air, and feeling exhausted
after just a lap or two, all of which makes this perfect exercise frustrating,
laborious, and complicated. For the past fifteen years, veteran swim coach
Terry Laughlin has been teaching adults how to swim better - and enjoy it more
- by using his simple and original techniques. Laughlin turns traditional
swimming beliefs inside out as he explains that it's technique - not athletic
ability - that makes a strong swimmer. Laughlin teaches 'Fishlike Swimming,'
focusing on slipping through the water rather than using muscle to overpower
it. The key is working with the water, not against it - learning to swim ever
faster and farther without losing a sense of flow, grace, economy, and
balance.
