Total Immersion Swimming: Swim Better, Easier, Faster! (Udemy.com)
Official Course: Total Immersion head coach Terry Laughlin teaches you how to swim faster and further using less effort
Created by: Expert Academy
Last updated May 2025
What you will learn
- Swim freestyle with the world’s most efficient technique—in fact, the same skills that have propelled Katie Ledecky to 20 medals (19 golds and one silver) in major competitions, and 13 World Records in freestyle, between her international debut at the 2012 London Olympics and the 2016 Olympics in Rio.
- Feel more comfortable and confident in the water.
- Swim a mile or more at a strong, steady pace—and feel energized, not exhausted, afterward.
- Understand how to be an Expert Learner—and apply the learning lessons from this course to anything!
How it compares
Against the other 662 rated Udemy courses in Health & Fitness on CourseDuck:
- Rating4.8 out of 5higher than 84% of them
- Reviews1,431#101 of 663 by number of reviews
- Length1.3 hoursshorter than 80% of them
- Last updatedMay 2025more recently than 51% of them
Course Description
The Ultra-Efficient Freestyle Complete Self-Coaching Course will teach you to swim a dramatically more efficient freestyle—and transform you into your own most effective swim instructor and coach.
You will learn . . . the proven advantages of:
Saving energy over trying to build endurance.
Letting conditioning 'happen' while you improve the skills that matter.
Achieving comfort, body control, and weightlessness before any other skill
Making your body 'slippery' (reducing drag) over increasing power.
Learning technique holistically—so all body parts work in seamless harmony.
Swimming a short distance with effortless ease and crisp form before swimming farther.
The most effective and fastest-acting skill drills.
Practicing over working out.
Your self-coaching tools include
A 140-page, richly-illustrated ebook that explains—in simple language--the biomechanics and fluid dynamics affect your (land-adapted) body as it moves through water, and the freestyle techniques that minimize common problems and take advantage of natural forces like body mass, gravity, and buoyancy.
Fifteen high definition videos. Fourteen illustrate essential mini-skills and how to learn them. The fifteenth is a detailed study of the whole stroke. All videos show every important angle, above and below water, in full and slow motion.
A Companion Workbook. This provides detailed guidance—what and how to do, what to avoid doing, how long and how many repetitions, key focal points—for each of the mini-skills and the whole stroke.
An Image Gallery of all key positions and timing to print out and take to the pool for reference, or study poolside on your phone or tablet.
You can complete this course in . . . 15 to 30 hours of practice, distributed over two or more months.
The course is structured as . . . Four major learning modules, each teaching an essential efficiency skill. Each module consists of up to four steps or mini-skills—some of which can be learned in 15 to 30 minutes. Do a brief segment of drill or mini-skill work, then a segment of whole-stroke to integrate and consolidate that skill.
Why take this course? You will not only become a strikingly more comfortable, confident, and skilled swimmer. You will also become a passionately-curious student of swimming.
Instructor Details
- 4.8 Rating
1,431 Reviews
Expert Academy
The Expert Academy is a specialist creator, publisher and distributor of high-quality online courses. We bring together leading experts from around the world so you can learn from the best.
Our experts will teach you skills that will have an immediate positive impact on your life. We help you learn from the very best.
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Reviews
By Pablo Toledo on 4/8/2024
Great course, excellent bite sized lessons delivered with lots of passion and enthusiasm. I found it brilliant for getting confident at freestyle again after many years of not swimming. Thanks Terry!
By Trinda Cyrus-Chow on 9/22/2023
Extremely useful resource, my only addition would be that it would have been useful to have a video section about kicking (though there is a chapter on this in the main textbook).
By Anonymized User on 11/5/2022
An excellent breakdown of techniques that empower you to apply what you’re learning in your own time. Despite being a latecomer to swimming, I had a number of compliments on my improving form, with a number of people complimenting me for having a “good form”. I credit this course entirely.
By Aaron Shirk on 8/14/2022
I've really enjoyed the process of learning total immersion form of swimming. It's been fun to not worry so much about distance and speed, and just focus on the core skills of swimming. It's made swimming more fun for me. I've always looked forward to swimming, even before total immersion. But now I feel like I look forward to it even more.
By Jonathan Moore on 5/31/2022
Using this course I went from needing a 2 minute break and feeling awful at the end of one 25 yard lap to swimming 200 yards without stopping. Still have a long way to go, but much improved.
By Marcelo Granado Queiroz on 3/31/2022
Because I’m truly excited with the possibilities brought by this course. The instructor, Terry, speaks so clearly that even when English is not one’s first language he makes it completely understandable. Cheers! Thank you for bringing this course up to us.
By Athanasios Michopoulos on 8/23/2021
Great course! It really helped me built a different mentality and approach to swimming. I am a lot more efficient and more mindful I the water but in life as well. Congratulations. Great work. Thank you
By Christopher Livett on 6/3/2021
I'm now 3 weeks into Total Immersion training and it has transformed my swimming. I was previously only able to swim about 1 length of the pool, and I'm already swimming 20-30 lengths in a session.
By Martin Brüwer on 8/26/2020
Hilfreich, um die Kraultechnik zu erleichtern und zu verbessern. Ich bin noch am Üben, aber das Schwimmen empfinde ich als leichter und nicht so anstrengend.
By Betül Demir on 3/10/2020
Finally, I've learned free style swimming. The Instructor is good, but he says vw bumper a lot. Rocket Swimmer Youtube channel (Adult Beginner Swimming Lessons | How To Swim) helped me to stroke and breath section.
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Overall Score : 96 / 100












