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Why Swimmers Need to Use a Snorkel
There are many good uses of a snorkel and not just for freestyle. The benefits are numerous including reducing the anxiety associated with breath holding and regulation, developing a better stroke, and injury prevention.
What Makes Elite Swimmers Fast?
Elite swimmers are a special breed of athlete, who spend hours on end training for ever faster times. But there’s more to an elite swimmer than just lots of swimming. There’s a whole host of factors that play into whether one person is fa...
Three Must-Do Exercises to Prevent Swimmer’s Shoulder
Here are three must-do exercises to prevent swimmer’s shoulder.
What Does ‘Swimmer’s Body’ Mean?
Swimming also has a preferred body type that’s related to the physics of boosting power while reducing drag through water, or hydrodynamics. Literally any body can be a “swimmer’s body” (and should!) but when talking about hig...
Three Freestyle Mistakes That Lead to Swimmer's Shoulder
When it comes to eliminating swimmer’s shoulder, focusing on your technique is one of the most important things you can do.
How to Use Backstroke Flags in Swimming
At all competition pools, spectators notice colored flags strung across the pool at each end. To the casual observer, they can appear quite festive. As festive as they are, however, swimmers know what they’re really for: avoiding painful encoun...
How Can I Start a Lap Swimming Routine?
Congratulations on deciding to start a new lap swimming routine! Swimming is one of the best forms of aerobic exercise you can perform because it engages all the muscles of your body while strengthening your cardiovascular system without placing too ...
Best 3,000-Yard Swimming Workouts
Do you ever get to the pool and have no idea what you want to swim? Or do you have a lot on your schedule and need to fit a good workout into a short amount of time? A 3,000-yard workout (plus or minus a few yards) from USMS’s Workout Library i...
Why Do You Float in Water?
One of the very first things every learn-to-swim student practices is basic floating. Learning to find that comfortable, mostly weightless place where your legs or body don’t sink but you don’t have to exert much effort to stay stable&mda...
How Swimmers Should Warm Up for a Meet
What constitutes a good warm-up routine is often ruled by your experience. If you have age-group, high school, or college swimming experience, you might have a great idea about what worked for you back then. But will it work now?
