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Three Yoga Poses to do Before a Masters Swimming Workout
The three movement sequences shown below are dynamic yoga movements that are safe for swimmers with less yoga experience to perform pre-workout or pre-event.
Dryland Exercises to Improve Your Freestyle
Dive into this dryland session focused on helping your freestyle. The technique areas targeted are lower-body power for your walls and kick, upper-body strength to help manage the pulling volume, and core work to maximize your body position in the wa...
Maximize Your Breaststroke with This Dryland Workout
Breaststroke requires a unique balance of power, timing, and body position. With a few exercises focused on training these key attributes, you can use dryland training to help improve your efficiency in the water. When you build strength and power (a...
Dryland Exercises to Improve Your Breaststroke
Breaststroke requires a unique balance of power, timing, and body position. With a few exercises focused on training these key attributes, your dryland training can improve your efficiency in the water. We’ll also focus on a few exercises that ...
Improve Your Backstroke With This Dryland Workout
Backstrokers must be able to exert strength with their body stretched out and have good body awareness. Being able to focus on the form of each stroke and where you are in the pool is a challenge that takes time to master. Here’s a dryland work...
Improve Your Butterfly With This Dryland Workout
Swimming butterfly requires power, rhythm, and body position. If you're missing one of these ingredients, this stroke can become an immense challenge.
How Swimmers Can Build Core Strength
You’ve probably heard of many ways to train your core, from sit-ups to squats. No matter what exercises you’ve mastered, it’s beneficial to step back occasionally and take a step-by-step approach to strengthening your core.
Exercises to Help You Recover from Swim Workouts
How good are you about the recovery side of the equation? If you had to really think about the last time you focused on recovery, chances are this area of your swim journey could use a little work.
Busting Three Common Swimmers’ Fears About Strength Training
Masters swimmers have common fears about strength training that hold them back from fully committing to making it part of their training regimen. But dedicating time to strength training can have a positive impact on your swimming and your day-to-day...
Get Ready to Swim With This Dryland Warm-up
How many times have you showed up to swim practice feeling a world of tension stemming from your day? You might note a tight shoulder or knee pain while standing on deck, though you might hop in the water and hope to work out the kinks during your wa...
