You can indeed “make up” your mind. By immersing yourself in loops of movements and concepts, you can learn at an unprecedented rate. With a headset that blocks out distractions and our content featuring perfect motions, even in activities you’ve never encountered before, your neurons will fire in coordination with the specific muscles, as if you are actually performing those movements. We began this journey with competitive swimming.
You’ll find an expanding library of content, and you can even suggest specific topics to help you master your chosen skills. This is the most direct path to profound improvement in learning. Our methods have helped individuals recovering from strokes regain their ability to walk, enabled athletes to win Olympic medals, and assisted young students in earning full-time college scholarships before they reach puberty. By leveraging the principles of neuroplasticity, you can unlock your brain’s potential and excel in the areas you are passionate about.
We’re breaking this down into key elements: starts, underwaters, stroke segments by joints, turns, finishes, and more. Additionally, we’ll showcase over 1,000 exercises that could help you master each component of the butterfly stroke. Each section will be tailored to target the specific areas you need to improve, ensuring your progress is both efficient and effective. Stay tuned for content designed to take your butterfly to the next level!
With Coach Friederang for Competitive Swimmer Magazine, we’re diving into backstroke mastery through the power of neuroplasticity. If you subscribe, you’ll gain access to hundreds of additional lessons designed to help you master every aspect of your stroke.
Put on your headset—whether it’s an Oculus, Apple, or an affordable option available through us—and relax as you watch and absorb the movements, rhythms, line, and balance that lead to excellence. This immersive experience will guide you toward customizing your own stroke to suit your unique talents.
Many more sessions are on the way, all tailored to help you reach your full potential. Join us on this journey to mastery!
In this demo, you’ll see the complete breaststroke, including turns and full stroke execution. However, when we refine this, you’ll receive specific segments to neurally “memorize.” These will include:
• Just the pull.
• Just the body position.
• Just the timing.
• Just the hip rotation to set up the ideal kick angle.
• Just the flexibility assessment of that joint.
• Just the streamlined hand position for the 200 that I will advocate.
• Just the swim bench whip kick at full speed or the Leaper combined with the vertical jump test and the push-and-glide-for-distance test in the pool.
And there will be dozens of other segments to train your brain to commit these techniques as habits—soon you won’t even need to consciously think about them. Few coaches teach this way now, but soon it will be the norm. Be a leader and start now.
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Consider this: if you’re in a group of 20 swimmers with one coach, you may only get around 3 minutes of direct correction, reinforcement, and instruction per hour, and that’s assuming your head is above water! Many of your fellow swimmers may not even be focused on mastering the specific techniques you’re aiming for in your stroke. Compare that to one session of neuro-training like this, which can give you a massive leap forward in your development.
I highly encourage you to video yourself underwater to see if what you think you’re mastering matches what you’re learning here. With just a little expert guidance and consistent practice using your VR headset and our training models, you can achieve a level of mastery that most people only dream about.
Neuro-training like this has already helped athletes become Olympic swimmers, concert musicians, and top performers in their fields. Now it’s your turn to unlock that potential!
We’re working on a segment by segment library of Neuroplastic videos for swimmers.
If you’re a subscriber, you may have seen my Stroke Report Card. You’re welcome to download this work in progress. Each of the segments highlighted in blue are linked to YouTube videos. Please note that some of these links may not be relevant yet—they’re simply placeholders for the hard work still ahead. For the neuro-training component, focusing on each movement individually will enable us to direct swimmers—or ourselves—to five-minute loops designed for learning, relearning, or mentally practicing skills. This approach will help these skills manifest more quickly and permanently in stroke mechanics, alignment, training, and racing.
Here’s the link to the Stroke Report Card, where I have swimmers rank themselves on a scale of 1-5. Feel free to use it with my compliments. As we continue to update, improve, and even add new mechanical options, your subscription guarantees you’ll receive the latest updates.
You can also reach me directly at Steve@competitiveswimmer.com for interaction, questions, or even to share your own point of view. Everything I’ve learned, I’ve learned from smart swimmers and coaches.
Looking forward to collaborating with subscribers to the Magazines who are using the content we create to help people learn and re-learn as they take advantage of their neuroplastic brain power.