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What to Know About Relocating Pool Workouts to the Open Water
Before you take the plunge, consider the following factors.
Follow This Yoga Nidra Script to Relax
Record the script below as a voice memo on your smartphone, so you will have it available to listen to any time you need to relax and rest your body and mind. Talk in a calm, relaxing voice, and read the script very slowly. The headings do not need t...
USMS Coach Mentor Program Helps Coaches Across the Country
Swim coaches must be insightful technicians, skilled diplomats, passionate motivators, and expert managers of aquatic chaos. They provide a service that enriches the lives of swimmers and positively contributes to the community.
How to Stay Motivated When You Can’t Swim
Your pool may be closed and your meet may be canceled, but that doesn’t mean your motivation and your fitness have to shut down.
How to Get Through the Loss of Swimming
If water is your happy place—and even if it’s sometimes been a frustrating and challenging place—having no pool and no access to open water is going to hurt. But there are ways to stay sane and get at least some of what the water w...
Try These Workouts While Waiting to Get Back Into the Water
Swimming is so much more than just an essential life skill. It’s an exceptional cardiorespiratory workout that comes without excessive stress on your joints. But if your pool is closed for an indefinite amount of time, you need a way to try to ...
How to Stay Connected With Your Masters Swimming Community
The COVID-19 pandemic has changed everything over the past few weeks. Pools have closed, and there are shelter in place orders across the country. The fabric of our Masters swimming community seemed to unravel with each update.
How to Spend Your Time Away From the Water
Being denied access to water workouts feels like condemnation to the pit of despair. Yet whether it’s because of a public health crisis, an assignment on the International Space Station, injury rehab, or a soul-sucking business trip to a desola...
Resistance Band Workout You Can Do From Home
Here’s a workout you can do if you can’t get to the pool. You can do this workout twice a week, resting at least 24 hours between sessions.
Coronavirus and Swimming: What You Need to Know
With lots of conflicting advice and misinformation floating around in cyberspace, we reached out to an expert, Roberta Lavin, a professor of medicine at the University of Tennessee’s College of Nursing, for guidance on how you can safely naviga...
