Terry Laughlin > Quotes

“70 percent of your ability to improve your stroke length coming from eliminating more of the water’s drag on your body.”
― Terry Laughlin, Total Immersion: The Revolutionary Way To Swim Better, Faster, and Easier

“faster not because of how powerfully they stroke but because of how slippery they make their bodies.”
― Terry Laughlin, Total Immersion: The Revolutionary Way To Swim Better, Faster, and Easier

“All efficient swimmers—which means nearly all the fast ones—seem to have a more instinctive sense of how to keep their bodies in the best position for slipping easily through the water, gliding as far as possible with the least possible effort.”
― Terry Laughlin, Total Immersion: The Revolutionary Way To Swim Better, Faster, and Easier

“kinesiologists estimate at least 70 percent of your swimming performance is determined by how well you streamline your body and only 30 percent by how fit or powerful you are.”
― Terry Laughlin, Total Immersion: The Revolutionary Way To Swim Better, Faster, and Easier

“three cardinal rules for going faster: 1. Balance your body in the water. 2. Make your body longer. 3. Swim on your side.”
― Terry Laughlin, Total Immersion: The Revolutionary Way To Swim Better, Faster, and Easier

“So goal one for anyone who wants to swim better and faster is a longer stroke. This can happen in two ways: (1) more push—using your hands and feet to thrust your body farther through the water by making each stroke as powerful as possible; and (2) less drag—shaping your body so it’s more friction-free, allowing it to travel farther with the power each of your strokes is already producing.”
― Terry Laughlin, Total Immersion: The Revolutionary Way To Swim Better, Faster, and Easier

“Practice them in 25-yard repeats, resting ten to fifteen seconds between.”
― Terry Laughlin, Total Immersion: The Revolutionary Way To Swim Better, Faster, and Easier