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USMS Member Elizabeth Lowe Saves Lives in the Bay Area With Mobile COVID-19 Testing Clinic
Elizabeth Lowe and her mobile COVID-19 testing unit arrived in June at a residential care facility in Marin County, California, just outside of San Francisco. Outfitted with a repurposed commuter shuttle van and Home Depot toolboxes repurposed to tot...
Does Swimming Help With Weight Loss?
Swimming is an all-body workout that builds muscle strength and cardiovascular capacity and lowers blood pressure and risk of disease—all without the gravity-induced stress and joint pressure that athletes encounter on land.
Kick Your Kick into Shape
When it’s time for a kick set, many of us grab a kickboard and get kicking—that’s usually my modus operandi anyway. But is kicking with kickboards the safest way for us to get our kicks in? “From a postural perspective, using...
What You Can Do to Keep Shoulder Injuries at Bay
How do we keep those pains and clicks from ever happening in the first place?
The Habit of Perfection—Working the Walls
Excellence is not accidental. While we might be able to perform any particular movement properly during a focused drill, it takes tons of practice to ensure that those skills become so ingrained we’ll perform them flawlessly when the press...
USMS Elects Directors and Honors Members
U.S. Masters Swimming has concluded its annual meeting during the United States Aquatic Sports Convention. In addition to committee meetings and rules and legislation reviews, USMS held at-large director elections and honored many of its deserving vo...
Keep Your Kick Going!
Some people have great kicks, but when you take away the kick board and ask them to swim, their kick disappears faster than a fair weather swimmer on a cold day. So how do we get the lower half of the body to work with the upper half? Swimmers in my ...
Permission to Play in the Bay
It was a perfect day for a swim. Well, not exactly a swim—more like a race. There were about 50 of us standing in our swimsuits, goggles in one hand, neoprene black caps in the other, waiting to swim in the San Francisco Bay under the Golden Ga...
Meet GTD Swimmer Scott Linnborn
For the last 17 years Scott Linnborn has been in law enforcement, serving the City of Cedar Park, Texas for the past eight years. He is currently assigned to the Professional Standards Division, "a.k.a. the Rat Squad or Internal Affairs" as he names ...
Scott Nichols: Beating the Odds
When you think of the Swimming Saves Lives foundation, what do you think? If you are like many people, you may think of the lifesaving aspect of swimming in terms of drowning prevention. While teaching people to swim safely is a big part of SSL, anot...
