Triathlon Swimming Made Easy: The Total Immersion Way for Anyone to Master Open-Water Swimming [Paperback]

Terry Laughlin (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: 2002

A clear, practical guide to swimming freestyle better than you ever thought possible. Not only to swim well enough to breeze through a triathlon swim leg with ease and confidence; but to reach a Nirvana where the swim is your favorite part. If you're not aiming to do a triathlon, but would simply like to swim with ease, efficiency and confidence, TSME will turn you into a beautiful freestyler with the freedom to swim in any body of water.

Product Details

• Paperback: 221 pages
• Publisher: Total Immersion Inc (2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1931009074
• ISBN-13: 978-1931009072
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.4 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (29 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #85,394 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #19 in Books > Sports & Outdoors > Water Sports > Swimming
  • #36 in Books > Health, Fitness & Dieting > Exercise & Fitness > Triathlons
  • #38 in Books > Sports & Outdoors > Individual Sports > Triathlon

More About the Author

Terry Laughlin is the director of Total Immersion Adult Swim Camps and Clubs, the fitness editor of Swim magazine, swimming columnist for Inside Triathlon, and senior editor for Fitness Swimmer. He holds Total Immersion swim camps all over the country, and lives in Goshen, New York.

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46 of 47 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic, April 6, 2006

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Robert Monroe (Pittsburgh, PA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Triathlon Swimming Made Easy: The Total Immersion Way for Anyone to Master Open-Water Swimming (Paperback)

After struggling with the swimming leg of triathlons I purchased this book and the accompanying Freestyle Made Easy DVD and committed to trying the Total Immersion approach to swimming. After two months of Total Immersion drills my swimming has improved dramatically. I now swim (literally) twice as fast as I did before starting the program while expending about the same amount of energy. I've never used any training program for any sport that improved my skills any where near as much as the Total Immersion approach improved my swimming.

The book is well written and easy to follow but I found that I also needed the Freestyle Made Easy DVD to fully understand how the drills should be done. Buy them both, they're a bargain at twice the price.

31 of 33 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Swimming is now as easy as walking!, January 21, 2007

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Carole (Idaho) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Triathlon Swimming Made Easy: The Total Immersion Way for Anyone to Master Open-Water Swimming (Paperback)

I began swimming a few months ago in preparation for my first triathlon. Although I could run a marathon with energy to spare, I could barely cross the pool once without gasping. After struggling twice a week for a couple of months, a friend told me about Total Immersion.

I went online and read the first three chapters (for free at the Total Immersion website) and saw significant improvement in my swimming effort. I purchased Triathlon Swimming Made Easy, and have not even finished the book yet, but have seen tremendous improvement in my speed and energy output. Last time I got out of the pool, after swimming more than a mile, I felt like I had just taken a stroll around the block. But best of all, my fastest friend at the pool, who began her mile swim at the same time as me, couldn't lap me!

Speed and ease of swimming are the benefits of employing the methods in this book. Read it and get faster while saving your energy for other parts of your triathlon.

14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Dive in!, March 19, 2007

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D. D. Piper - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Triathlon Swimming Made Easy: The Total Immersion Way for Anyone to Master Open-Water Swimming (Paperback)

This book literally changes the way you think about swimming. We are taught how to swim from an early age, but don't really "think" about it. I went from struggling through two laps to swimming over a thousand yards, and I haven't even finished the book yet. I am training for my first triathlon and was very nervous about the swim. Not anymore.