The Easy Freestyle Swimming DVD and by Terry Laughline can make swimming haters into people who love to swim. It shows you how to swim easier and faster and at greater distances. For under $40, it’s an inexpensive but helpful Olympic level coaching video.

What is Total Immersion?

It is a method associated with Terry Laughlin, the DVD guide author. You will learn to cut your drag and water resistance right away. If you are training for a triathlon or just perfecting your stroke, it’s the fastest way to building speed and endurance.

Recommended swimming guide/DVD in 4-Hour Body book

Tim Ferriss recommends watching the DVD before reading the guide since the drills are difficult to understand until you see them played out in the DVD.

Easy Freestyle Swimming presents seven self-coaching lessons, which have been perfected at Total Immersion Workshops. You can see details both above and under water, in slow motion and comparison shots.

We would highly recommend this guide and DVD for anyone wanting to perfect their stroke for working out more efficiently or for training and improving your swim. It is a 20% effort, 90% results sort of approach, which means you get results faster by following the guided lessons.

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Below are the lessons included in 'Easy Freestyle Swimming Guide with DVD by Terry Laughlin:

Lesson One
Cooperate with Gravity: Cleverly use gravity to achieve a sense of support, comfort and confidence.

Lesson Two
The Path of Least Resistance: Minimize energy cost by learning fish-like body positions and profiles.

Lesson Three
Swim with your Body: Use weight shifts, instead of fatigue-prone arms and legs to spear your body through the water.

Lesson Four
Perpetual Motion Propulsion: Connect powerful, effortless hip drive to your stroke and kick for maximal speed with minimal fatigue.

Lesson Five
Relax your Recovery: Use a compact, relaxed recovery to channel energy and power where they do the most good.

Lesson Six

Seamless Breathing: Breathing skills that get your muscles the oxygen they need and make your stroke more powerful and effective.

Lesson Seven

Turns that Save Energy and Time: All the details for the easy and airy open turn, and a flip turn that s faster and easier than ever.

Lesson Eight

The Secrets of Speed: The fool-proof way to convert an efficient stroke into more speed.

Other recommendations are

• Don’t swim in board shorts
• Get good goggles See our review here