Triathlon Research Radio

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  “Click to hear Terry Laughlin discuss the ins and outs of triathlon swimming the Total Immersion way.→“[Click To Tweet]     Swimming faster is something all of us triathletes aim for. In this show Terry Laughlin of Total Immersion talks about the mechanics to becoming a better swimmer.    Terry's primary focus is to teach swimmers to move through the water efficiently. By conserving energy and focusing on balance and streamlining in the water, any energy used for propulsion becomes much more effective. Basic principles of teaching include sustainability of effort, drag reduction, vessel shaping and full body swimming.         0:00 - Terry Laughlin and Triathlon Research Radio 1:40 - Terry's Travels 5:05 - Three Questions For Triathletes 1. Are you swimming fast enough? 2. Are you good enough for the type of racing? 3. Are you getting the right advice? 7:43 - Speed is complicated 10:39 - The Skills You Need To Acquire More Speed 15:40 - Counting Your Strokes 21:05 - Becoming More Self-Aware 23:50 - The “Green Zone” 30:27 - Testing Your Limits And Developing Consistency 1. Test your ability to swim farther and/or 2. Swim farther with less variation 33:21 - Mental and Aerobic Endurance 40:11 - Tempo and Pacing 45:21 - Swim Mechanics 53:00 - Staying Motivated and Always Improving         Transcript Suzanne: Hello, my name is Suzanne Atkinson and today I'm interviewing Terry Laughlin of Total Immersion Swimming. Hi Terry how are you today?       Terry: Hi Suzanne I'm not bad today and hello to everyone.       Suzanne: Thanks for joining me today. Terry you have just done a worldwide sort of whirl wind tour in England and the United States at several different triathlon shows. What shows were you at and what were they like?       Terry: In England I went to the Tri show in Sandown near London on March 1st and 2nd and then I went to the Bike and Tri show in Manchester on March 8th and 9th. Back in the US two weeks later to Tri mania in Maryland, Tri Mania, D.C on March 22nd and a week later March 29th at Tri Mania again but this time the Boston edition at MIT.       Suzanne: So that was four different tri shows in two different countries within a month, is that correct?       Terry: Correct.       Suzanne: That sounds like a lot of fun and a lot of work.       Terry: It was a lot of work, a lot of travel, a lot of getting to talk to triathletes, which I find most valuable.       Suzanne: Can you estimate how many triathletes were in attendance at each show or is that something you weren’t really aware of?       Terry: I'm not a very good estimator but certainly the number was in the hundreds, possibly over 1000 probably at the two shows in England because they were two days each and in quite large venues. I would say safely into the hundreds at the two Tri Mania shows.       Suzanne: Sounds like some multiple hundreds. I read some really good reviews of it online and people were really excited to have the opportunity go to those Tri Mania shows and meet with and interact with people like yourself and several of the other well-known names in triathlon.       Terry: Yeah I enjoyed it too especially because I got to do a panel with at the Tri Mania in D.C with Shane Eversfield another TI coach in direct cycling and my good friend Danny Dreyer from Chi Running.       Suzanne: Great. Did you have ample time during those shows for triathletes to perch you individually and introduce themselves and have conversations or was it more a group presentation?       Terry: In England we had booths and the booths were manned by multiple coaches from the UK, one group in London and another group in Manchester. When I was not either speaking or teaching at the pools there I mostly was at the booth so I got to do that quite a bit.   At Tri Mania we ran five to six clinics, I guess five clinics a day of two types, each for over an hour.

Click to hear Terry Laughlin discuss the ins and outs of triathlon swimming the Total Immersion way. [Click To Tweet] (http://ctt.ec/9Cje9) Swimming faster is something all of us triathletes aim for. In this show Terry Laughlin of Total Immersion talks about the mechanics to becoming a better swimmer.    Terry's primary focus is to teach swimmers to move through the water efficiently. By conserving energy and focusing on balance and streamlining in the water, any energy used for propulsion becomes much more effective. Basic principles of teaching include sustainability of effort, drag reduction, vessel shaping and full body swimming. 0:00 - Terry Laughlin and Triathlon Research Radio 1:40 - Terry's Travels 5:05 - Three Questions For Triathletes 1. Are you swimming fast enough? 2. Are you good enough for the type of racing? 3. Are you getting the right advice? 7:43 - Speed is complicated 10:39 - The Skills You Need To Acquire More Speed 15:40 - Counting Your Strokes 21:05 - Becoming More Self-Aware 23:50 - The “Green Zone” 30:27 - Testing Your Limits And Developing Consistency 1. Test your ability to swim farther and/or 2. Swim farther with less variation 33:21 - Mental and Aerobic Endurance 40:11 - Tempo and Pacing 45:21 - Swim Mechanics 53:00 - Staying Motivated and Always Improving   Transcript Suzanne: Hello, my name is Suzanne Atkinson and today I'm interviewing Terry Laughlin of Total Immersion Swimming. Hi Terry how are you today?       Terry: Hi Suzanne I'm not bad today and hello to everyone.       Suzanne: Thanks for joining me today. Terry you have just done a worldwide sort of whirl wind tour in England and the United States at several different triathlon shows. What shows were you at and what were they like?       Terry: In England I went to the Tri show in Sandown near London on March 1st and 2nd and then I went to the Bike and Tri show in Manchester on March 8th and 9th. Back in the US two weeks later to Tri mania in Maryland, Tri Mania, D.C on March 22nd and a week later March 29th at Tri Mania again but this time the Boston edition at MIT.       Suzanne: So that was four different tri shows in two different countries within a month, is that correct?       Terry: Correct.       Suzanne: That sounds like a lot of fun and a lot of work.       Terry: It was a lot of work, a lot of travel, a lot of getting to talk to triathletes, which I find most valuable.       Suzanne: Can you estimate how many triathletes were in attendance at each show or is that something you weren’t really aware of?       Terry: I'm not a very good estimator but certainly the number was in the hundreds, possibly over 1000 probably at the two shows in England because they were two days each and in quite large venues. I would say safely into the hundreds at the two Tri Mania shows.       Suzanne: Sounds like some multiple hundreds. I read some really good reviews of it online and people were really excited to have the opportunity go to those Tri Mania shows and meet with and interact with people like yourself and several of the other well-known names in triathlon.       Terry: Yeah I enjoyed it too especially because I got to do a panel with at the Tri Mania in D.C with Shane Eversfield another TI coach in direct cycling and my good friend Danny Dreyer from Chi Running.       Suzanne: Great. Did you have ample time during those shows for triathletes to perch you individually and introduce themselves and have conversations or was it more a group presentation?       Terry: In England we had booths and the booths were manned by multiple coaches from the UK, one group in London and another group in Manchester. When I was not either speaking or teaching at the pools there I mostly was at the booth so I got to do that quite a bit.   At Tri Mania we ran five to six clinics, I guess five clinics a day of two types, each for over an hour.

  Triathlon Research iTunes   “Unleash the primal runner within with help from 6-time olympic running coach Bobby McGee.→“[Click To Tweet]     Six time Olympic Running Coach Bobby McGee shares stories from his early days of running and run coaching. In this episode you’ll hear techniques that will help you become a better endurance runner. 01:02  Bobby shares his history of growing up in South Africa and feeling the pressure on the sporting world from the apartheid.   14:19  The difference between runners in the US and runners from South Africa   16:50  Examples on how to open up the proprioceptive set points   20:35  Bobby talks about the ranges of motion of the top triathletes and runners “In terms of blood flow, function, and range of motion... one of the worst culprits is a car seat”   24:05  How to eliminate the things that are holding you back “We don’t have to train that hard, we just have to train that consistently” If you look into the past of great athletes it’s mostly a question of them finding a way to do their training without breakdown.   27:24  Recovery time from a long run "The more work you can do… the more successful you will be”   31:25  How an age group triathlete can lower their run time Bobby evaluates a good coach on only 2 things: 1. The athletes must get better from season to season 2. Those athletes must put out there best performances on the day the athlete and coach decide it was going to be the peak event   35:05  Differences between speed endurance and muscle endurance   43:34  Don’t spend a lifetime trying to figure out what works.         Transcript   Suzanne:   This  is  Suzanne  Atkinson  and  I’m  here  interviewing  Bobby  McGee  tonight.  And   we  are  going  to  learn  more  about  Bobby  McGee,  his  background  in  coaching  and   how  he’s  been  able  to  develop  such  a  large  following  of  rabid  coaches  and   athletes  who  are  all  eager  to  hear  his  running  advice. Bobby,  you  and  I  were  just  talking  a second ago  about  you  introduction  into  Run   Coaching.  Do  you  want  to  go  ahead  and  just  tell  that  short  story?     Bobby:   Yes.  I’ve  been  involved  for  a  long  time  so  I  guess  my  introduction  to  Run   Coaching  was  because  I  didn’t  initially  have  a  job  as  a  track  coach  or  a  cross-­‐ country coach,  I  coached  hockey  players. I  didn’t  get  a  chance  to  travel  overseas  in  those  days.  There  was  apartheid  and   sports  moratoriums  and  that  sort  of  thing.  And  I  didn’t  really think  of  myself   necessarily  as  the  distance  running  coach  but  I  knew  I  wanted  to  coach  distance  runners. While  I  was  in  the  military  I  coached  a  couple  of  guys  through  their first   marathon  and  that  was  a  lot  of  fun.  I  was  training  for  the  same  marathon  as  they   were.  But  by  the  time  1986  rolled  around,  I  got  an  opportunity  to  do  bake  sales   and collect  money  and  stuff  like  that  so  that  I  could  travel  internationally  to  go   and  talk  to  coaches. And  I  was  kind  of  freed  up  to  do  that  because  South  Africa  was  a  long  way from   being  readmitted  into  the  international  sporting  arena.  I  was  coaching  in  this   country  that  was  not  a  threat  to  anybody  but  I  knew  all  the  coaches.  I  knew   Charles  Elliott and  Frank  Halliwell  and  Harry  Wilson  and  Walter  Gladrow  and  a   number  of  the  other  top  coaches  at  the  time. And  I  contacted  them  all  to  go  and  visit  them  and  they  had  no idea  who  I  was. Only  two  coaches  turned  me  down;  John  Paul  Olanzi,  the  Italian  marathon  coach turned  me  down  and  at  that  time  it  was  the  whole  thing  about  the  Conconi Curve  was going  on. There  were  being  a  lot  of  questions   asked  about  the  performance  of  the   Italian  athletes,  the  marathon  runners,

Triathlon Research iTunes (https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/triathlon-research-radio/id844093567?mt=2) Unleash the primal runner within with help from 6-time olympic running coach Bobby McGee. [Click To Tweet] (http://ctt.ec/z3CbM) Six time Olympic Running Coach Bobby McGee shares stories from his early days of running and run coaching. In this episode you’ll hear techniques that will help you become a better endurance runner. 01:02  Bobby shares his history of growing up in South Africa and feeling the pressure on the sporting world from the apartheid. 14:19  The difference between runners in the US and runners from South Africa 16:50  Examples on how to open up the proprioceptive set points 20:35  Bobby talks about the ranges of motion of the top triathletes and runners “In terms of blood flow, function, and range of motion... one of the worst culprits is a car seat” 24:05  How to eliminate the things that are holding you back “We don’t have to train that hard, we just have to train that consistently”. If you look into the past of great athletes it’s mostly a question of them finding a way to do their training without breakdown. 27:24  Recovery time from a long run "The more work you can do… the more successful you will be” 31:25  How an age group triathlete can lower their run time. Bobby evaluates a good coach on only 2 things: 1. The athletes must get better from season to season 2. Those athletes must put out there best performances on the day the athlete and coach decide it was going to be the peak event 35:05  Differences between speed endurance and muscle endurance 43:34  Don’t spend a lifetime trying to figure out what works. Transcript Suzanne: This  is  Suzanne  Atkinson  and  I’m  here  interviewing  Bobby  McGee  tonight.  And   we  are  going  to  learn  more  about  Bobby  McGee,  his  background  in  coaching  and   how  he’s  been  able  to  develop  such  a  large  following  of  rabid  coaches  and   athletes  who  are  all  eager  to  hear  his  running  advice. Bobby,  you  and  I  were  just  talking  a second ago  about  you  introduction  into  Run   Coaching.  Do  you  want  to  go  ahead  and  just  tell  that  short  story? Bobby: Yes.  I’ve  been  involved  for  a  long  time  so  I  guess  my  introduction  to  Run   Coaching  was  because  I  didn’t  initially  have  a  job  as  a  track  coach  or  a  cross-­‐ country coach,  I  coached  hockey  players. I  didn’t  get  a  chance  to  travel  overseas  in  those  days.  There  was  apartheid  and   sports  moratoriums  and  that  sort  of  thing.  And  I  didn’t  really think  of  myself   necessarily  as  the  distance  running  coach  but  I  knew  I  wanted  to  coach  distance  runners. While  I  was  in  the  military  I  coached  a  couple  of  guys  through  their first   marathon  and  that  was  a  lot  of  fun.  I  was  training  for  the  same  marathon  as  they   were.  But  by  the  time  1986  rolled  around,  I  got  an  opportunity  to  do  bake  sales   and collect  money  and  stuff  like  that  so  that  I  could  travel  internationally  to  go   and  talk  to  coaches. And  I  was  kind  of  freed  up  to  do  that  because  South  Africa  was  a  long  way from   being  readmitted  into  the  international  sporting  arena.  I  was  coaching  in  this   country  that  was  not  a  threat  to  anybody  but  I  knew  all  the  coaches.  I  knew   Charles  Elliott and  Frank  Halliwell  and  Harry  Wilson  and  Walter  Gladrow  and  a   number  of  the  other  top  coaches  at  the  time. And  I  contacted  them  all  to  go  and  visit  them  and  they  had  no idea  who  I  was. Only  two  coaches  turned  me  down;  John  Paul  Olanzi,  the  Italian  marathon  coach turned  me  down  and  at  that  time  it  was  the  whole  thing  about  the  Conconi Curve  was going  on. There  were  being  a  lot  of  questions   asked  about  the  performance  of  the   Italian  athletes,