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Ruth Hoskinson
Ruth Hoskinson, who passed in 2020 at age 90, was unafraid of adventure. She never saw a record that she didn’t try to achieve or a challenge that she did not try to surmount. It was late in life when she learned the probable source o...
5 Reasons Why Swimming is Great for Lung Health
Your lungs are a unique organ. They reside deep inside your body, but are the only internal organ that has continual and wholesale exposure to the outside world. Think about it: Every time you breathe in—roughly 20,000 times per day for the ave...
4 Reasons Why Swimming is Great for Heart Health
Any kind of cardiovascular exercise—the kind of activities that get your heart pumping and your sweat flowing—can help build your heart muscle and make you stronger. But swimming, in particular, is a really great way to exercise for heart...
3 Reasons Why Swimming is Great for Musculoskeletal Strength
Swimming is a great full-body workout, but what does that mean? Well, it means that it’s one of just a few types of exercises that engages a vast range of muscle groups in your body, and it’s a great way to strengthen muscles you might n...
What Masters Swimmers Should Talk About With Their Coaches
Most swimmers think of their coaches as people who stand on the pool deck and loudly tell them what to do and how fast to do it. Because coaches like to hear themselves talk, you may have the impression that they prefer communicating in one direction...
How to Train for Middle-Distance Swim Races
Dialing in the optimal pace for a middle-distance event is a challenge, especially for athletes who race multiple distances in a single meet. How can coaches prepare their swimmers to allocate their energy for their best performance in freestyle even...
How to Have a Great Freestyle Recovery
Lots of swimmers focus on the stroke portion of freestyle—and rightly so. This is the phase of freestyle that provides the always-needed propulsion. Your freestyle recovery, the portion of your stroke that doesn’t move you forward in the ...
How to Get a Great Swimming Workout in a Short Time
Pool closures and lane restrictions because of COVID-19 have forced many swimmers into time-constrained workouts. Many pools, if open at all, have gone to a model that allows one or two people per lane. Times, which are limited because time is needed...
3 Reasons Why Swimming is Great for Joint Health
It’s a common refrain on pool decks: “I used to run, but my knees [or hips or ankles] can’t take all that pounding anymore, so I took up swimming.” That’s because swimming—and the near-weightless, killer full-body ...
4 Reasons Why Swimming is Great for Your Immune System
It seems that 2020 was the year we all became armchair immunologists, as we got a daily crash-course in how the body works to defend itself against a variety of threats. It hasn’t been pretty, but it has made many people more aware of how impor...
