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How Sleep Can Impact Your Swimming Performance
For many Masters swimmers, routine is everything. You go to your workout 3, 4, 5, or more days a week or more like clockwork. You work hard during your training sessions, whether they’re in the pool or open water, and you rinse and repeat.
How Can I Find the Right Swimsuit Fit?
As a swimmer, your most important piece of gear is your swimsuit. But it isn’t always easy to find a style or fit that works for you.
At What Water Temperature Do I Need a Wetsuit?
For many open water swimmers around the world, a wetsuit is an essential piece of gear they need for all their training and racing adventures. These tight-fitting body suits, usually made of high-tech, black neoprene and ranging in thickness from a s...
How Long Does it Take to Get Back Into Swimming Shape?
No matter how dedicated a swimmer you are, sometimes it just happens: the dreaded layoff. Whether because of an injury, work commitments, family matters, travel, or any other reasons why your swimming routine might get disrupted, a period away from t...
Can Swimming Improve Your Sex Life?
It’s a truth universally acknowledged that people have less sex as they age. Testosterone, a main hormonal driver of desire in people, begins to decline starting around age 40, right as the stresses of life are reaching max complexity. Juggling...
How to Start a Swimming Routine
Whether you’ve found your way to the pool for fitness, weight loss, health benefits, social purposes, or any other reason, you’re on your way to a brighter future. Swimming offers a wealth of health benefits including improved cardiovascu...
Why Swimming Might Make You Need to Pee
Open water swimming holds certain advantages over pool swimming in a number of areas, perhaps the most convenient of these being not having to exit the water to answer the call of nature. (You really shouldn’t in pools.) Indeed, for most open w...
How to Do Breaststroke Kick
It’s not uncommon to see a breaststroke kick that’s ineffective or even illegal. It might be that the legs aren’t working together simultaneously, or there’s a dolphin-like action in the kick. When the legs aren’t moving...
Best Swimming Workouts for Weight Loss
It’s a well-known fact that swimmers like to eat—a lot! And in a perfect world they’re in the pool just enough to balance their eating and swimming in order to maintain their optimal body weight. What happens when suddenly your weig...
Best Workouts for Masters Swimmers
Experienced and novice Masters swimmers alike take time out of their daily lives to improve both their physical and mental health through swimming. Not all Masters swimmers have the experience and knowledge to design a training and workout plan for t...
