从你的头脑开始，让你的肌肉走开---全浸教练Louis Tharp

Louis Tharp 是全浸教练，同时也是西点军校的游泳教练，著名的1500m游18分多的尼古拉斯就是他的学生，他得博客被评为去年最好的游泳博客之一。

I forgot how much patience and how little muscle it takes to make progress when you are a novice swimmer. And, how little patience and how much muscle novice swimmers are ready to expend.

一个初学者的进步需要很大的耐心，而只需很少的肌肉。但同时，很多初学者运用了太多的肌肉，而没有什么耐心。

My newest novice swimmer is a 30-year-old overachiever who was a junior high, high school and college wrestler. He has delts for days, and the confidence that goes with being a proficient athlete. These days he's a triathlete who is fearless on the bike but feckless in the pool.

我最近的一个初学者学生是一个30岁的学员，他在学校里是个摔角手。现在他是一个铁人三项运动员，他在自行车上时无所畏惧，但却对游泳池怕得要命。

I tried to prepare him for the non-muscular activity he was about to do called balance drills. I did one and he watched. Then he didn't do one, but he tried. And tried. It looked so easy.

我试着为他准备无肌肉的练习，也就是平衡练习。我做了一个，他看着。然后他试了几下。练习看起来太简单了。

"It's all about letting your brain do the work it wants to do. Your brain will figure this out. Just relax and be in the moment," I said 19 different ways. Terry calls it mindful swimming.

关键是让你的大脑去做它想要做的事。你的大脑会自己拿主意。此刻只要放松就可以了。我用了19种方法来说这段话。这也是特里所说的意念游泳。

Two-and-a-half hours later we were done for the night. I was happy. He had made huge progress, but he didn't think so. I told him he was feeling frustrated and maybe a little angry. Maybe irritated. He didn't disagree. I said if we were learning how to run or bike he'd be sweaty, feeling beat-up, and physically exhausted. Learning to swim is more about brain work than muscle firing, so when you're learning, the result is brain-based. It's not intuitive. It's like setting the preferences on anything computer-driven - the result is frustration and irritation while you're learning.

两个半小时后结束了，我很高兴。他取得了巨大的进步，但他自己并不这么认为。我看得出来他感到沮丧。我告诉他，如果我们是学习跑步或者自行车，他可能会汗流浃背。但是，学习游泳更多的是头脑的工作而不是燃烧肌肉。因此，我们在学习的时候，成果是在你的脑子里。这不是本能的。在学习的时候你可能感到沮丧和愤怒。

I said, "if I were charging you $65 an hour and I wanted the next $65, I'd make sure you left practice feeling like you were the best swimmer in the world." But the reality was that I wasn't and he didn't.

我说“如果我收你65块一个小时，然后还想再赚下一个65，我得让你在练习后感觉你是世界上游得最好的人。”但事实上他并不是。

What I said in an email to him later was, "I can show you how to be one of the fastest swimmers in your triathlon age group, and now isn't the time to leave practice feeling like you're the best swimmer in the world because you're not. Now is the time to sleep well, eat well, be kind to yourself, let your unconscious figure out what balance is all about, and get back in the pool."

后来我发邮件给他说：“我能告诉你如何成为你那个年龄组的铁人三项最好的游泳选手，但现在还不是时候，因为你还不是。现在你应该做的是睡好，吃好，对自己好点，让你的潜意识告诉你什么是平衡，然后再回到泳池练习。

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本帖最后由 yugogo669 于 2012-6-3 23:20 编辑

一般人，下水就开始使劲的游啊游，我原来就是这样，当然会有进步，游得多嘛，但会停步不前，而且会受伤。
后来，发现所有的运动，都是要分解动作，逐一磨练的。

讲点别的，篮球，你去观察，普通的爱好者，都是在那里不停的投篮，其实，篮球的基本功是拍球，业余要练两年，练到球人合一，才开始练步法，投篮，所谓球感

游泳嘛，水感，怎么练，就是放松，找到水对你的浮力，利用它，再就是，科学的练习打腿

这个帖子写得非常好，只是，很多人看不懂，就知道，下水就游，好玩啊，如同练武术，谁愿意先站三年桩啊，这就是专业和业余的区别

平衡是游泳中的要点是没错，但平衡必然要靠肌肉发力去维持，几乎不用力，只有在几乎完全静水中才有可能。
其实这个更好的理解应该是对水及水流的感觉，即所谓的水感。罗马不是一天建成的，泳技的提高也不是一天两天就能搞定的，即使是天赋极高的人，也需要循序渐进，当然天赋高的人的这个过程相对要短一些。
大致看了下中文，我的第一反应居然象是那个打通任督二脉的说法，见笑了。