Reddit Reddit reviews Total Immersion: The Revolutionary Way To Swim Better, Faster, and Easier

We found 4 Reddit comments about Total Immersion: The Revolutionary Way To Swim Better, Faster, and Easier. Here are the top ones, ranked by their Reddit score.

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4 Reddit comments about Total Immersion: The Revolutionary Way To Swim Better, Faster, and Easier:

u/dnew · 3 pointsr/pics

I bought this book, read the first three chapters or so, practiced every weekend for about a month or two, and went from not being able to swim across the short length of the pool to being able to swim laps and laps without getting tired. I highly recommend it.

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u/kaythetall · 2 pointsr/Swimming

I'm a couple months in practicing on my own. I had lessons as a kid, but hadn't really swum more than a few meters (other than lounging around) in twenty years.

I've gone from around 90 seconds to go 50m to about 55s, swimming twice a week for half an hour. I feel like I'm making slow but steady progress, but I also am reading quite a bit from the library. The drill structure in Total Immersion sounds goofy, but is very rewarding so far. It does assume some swimming experience. And Swimming Fastest is huge but very detailed on proper form.

I never really felt like Youtube videos could explain what and why things were happening. I need really, really slow-motion that I can watch for multiple swimmers to see what they do differently, and the same. That doesn't seem to exist at high rez.

u/ColonelMusterd · 1 pointr/navyseals

It is probably some combination of the two. Your technique is causing you to overwork / muscle through the swim and your overhead mobility is limited so that's where you feel it.

Technique: Where and how did you learn to swim? Total Immersion is the swim technique that makes the most sense to me and I believe its taught at BUD/S (someone correct me if i'm out of date). There are books and videos. the website has coaches who would be able to gopro your technique and modify from there.

Shoulder Mobility: This is a decent assessment for shoulder range of motion in overhead. If you are unable to maintain a neutral spine / head position near the top or your arm wont stay straight you could try releasing different areas; lats, traps, Pec minor, serratus. Then retest, if it got easier that's the area you should release before swimming to relearn easy range of motion. Hope that makes sense.

u/xnsax18 · 1 pointr/Swimming

Really start with the basics first: balance and body position. Before you even attempt to freestyle. If you are open to reading some books about this, try total immersion. They also have a website and YouTube channel. Also they host workshops all over the world.