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Open Water Swim Camp, St John USVI 2/23-27/2023
We are back to St John, USVI for swim camp! Ready to get back in the warm clear water of the Carribean to swim with friends and da fishes! Our home base will be the newly renovated and re-opened Concordia … Continue reading
Swimming with the Mind of Meditation Practice #7
Here is the seventh sample from my next swim book: “Swimming with the Mind of Meditation” I will be releasing one each week for the next few weeks for a total of 8 practices. Each week the practices will get … Continue reading
Triathlon: Travel Tips for Competing Internationally
Competing Internationally By Terri Bower (Terri just competed in ITU Worlds in Demark representing the USA as a member of Team USA Triathlon. Here she shares some travel tips.) The ITU Worlds in Denmark was my first international triathlon completion. And, … Continue reading
Swimming is Swimming, Meditation is Meditation
Swimming is not meditation. Meditation is not swimming. Though people say swimming is like meditation it is not. More accurate is to say we can swim with the mind of mediation. Which is to say we can swim with a … Continue reading
Training or Exercise
Training and exercise are not the same. We do need to have physical activity- exercise- in our lives as part of being healthy, but we don’t need to train. I know it can be just semantics, but they are different. … Continue reading
Open Water Season
Yahoo, it’s open water season and time to get outta the pool. But do be wise in finding friends to swim with for fun, and for safety. Wear colorful caps, and get a swim buoy to tow along. The buoy … Continue reading
The “Dreadmill” in the Mind
One athlete I am working with recently made a remark about the snow getting in the way of her training and that she’d have to use the “dread mill.” It’s not a “Dread mill” unless you look at it that … Continue reading
You On the Sidelines or in The Arena?
“It is not the critic who counts, nor the man who points how the strong man stumbled or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; … Continue reading
It’s Ok to Keep Your Swim Simple
When planning to go to the pool for your swim keep this in mind: what you do for your swim practice does not need to be complicated, keep it simple. Think about one intention and one goal for the swim. … Continue reading
Law of Least Effort
I woke early this morning, early enough to get to the pool to swim during morning lap time versus noon lap time. I hurried out the door after a small bowl of steel cut oats I had cooked earlier in … Continue reading
Save the “Push,” Focus on the “Pull”
Save the “Push”, Focus on the “Pull” As an athlete and a Triathlon coach for … Continue reading
Peak Over the Edge…
Today I had an athlete I am coaching ask if she should take Tylenol, acetaminophen (ACT), before the start of an Olympic Distance Triathlon. Her reasoning being is that she had read a study that taking ACT boosted performance by masking the perception … Continue reading
