Like many people living in the 21st Century I find I can become easily distracted by what Cal Newport calls 'shallow work'. This is the daily management of competing distractions: checking your email inbox, posting on social media, catch-up meetings and so on. Newport's argument isn't that there is anything fundamentally wrong with these things - or that in 2017 it is practical or desirable to live without them - but instead that we allow shallow work to dominate our attentio

My experience of coaching swimmers who are complete new to TI is that the first major improvement you often see is the swimmer achieving a sense of balance in the water. By allowing the water to hold their body this keeps them in the best and most comfortable position for swimming. This also helps to answer the question: "but why are my legs always sinking?". TI drills like Superman Glide and Skate help to introduce this feeling of being supported by the water much faster tha