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How Swimmers Can Keep Glute Pain From Hurting Their Swimming
Ever have a literal pain in your butt?
3 Myths About Backstroke Starts (and the Truths Behind Them)
Fix your backstroke start by learning the truth about these three myths.
Why Swimmers Need to Use a Logbook to Optimize Their Training and Performance
When you started swimming, personal bests came to you regularly, whether it was monthly, weekly, or even daily. You might have looked at that improvement and thought it would go on like that forever. But it didn’t. When searching for answers, you might have come across a fitness tracker to start recording your sessions, to look for some reason why those improvements don’t just keep coming with the extra work. Looking at the data for intensity (intervals) or volume (yards swum in a session) tells you some things but doesn’t paint the whole picture. Other elements go into your performance and keeping a record of not just workouts but many of the other variables can help you make sense of the data. Here are a few of the key variables that you may want to keep in a swim log to help guide you to better results.
Why Butterflyers Should Do the One-Two-One Drill
Butterfly can be the most exhausting stroke to swim, and it takes many swimmers of lot of practice to learn the proper timing. Practicing it, however, can be exhausting. Once you’re worn out, your stroke will start to fall apart, at which point you’re practicing bad technique—that’s never a good thing.
Learn to Swim Freestyle With This Drill Progression
Freestyle swimming technique can be difficult to master, and it takes a lot of practice to find the right body alignment, catch, and arm movements to swim fast. This drill progression can help. Work on these drills in progression regularly to solidify your muscle memory for faster freestyle.
Dryland Exercises that Power Up Your Swimming Turns
When you push off the wall, that’s the fastest you’ll ever move in swimming. Learning to capitalize on this for a strong push-off is a key way to post faster times in any event you’re racing.
Four Exercises to Alleviate Hip Pain
Terry (not her real name) was out for her usual weekend open water swim when her hip suddenly tightened up.
Why You Need to Buddy Up for a Sustainable Swimming Habit
It’s often said you should never swim alone, and while that’s typically intended as a safety mantra, there are other reasons that finding a partner or group to train with can help you build a more sustainable swimming habit. Here are four key ways that buddying up can improve your ability, fitness, enjoinment, and commitment to swimming.
What Muscles Are Used in a Swimming Workout?
Exercise is good for your body in many ways, but one of its biggest benefits comes from how it strengthens muscles. In fact, swimming just might be the best exercise for building strength throughout your entire body because it’s low-impact—meaning there’s less stress on your joints—while offering consistent resistance from the water.
4 Must-Do In-Water Stretching Drills for Swimmers
Staying flexibile is a critical skill for swimmers because it improves streamlining, stroke mechanics, and resistance to injury. But staying flexible as we age isn’t always easy.
Make Your Freestyle More Efficient by Doing This Drill
If you watch an aerial view of elite swimmers, you’ll notice that they always have a hand or arm out in front of their heads. This is called front-quadrant swimming, and the best of the best use it because it lengthens your body and helps with stroke timing.
Try This Drill to Improve Your Freestyle Technique
Do you feel as though your freestyle has stagnated, even though you’ve been getting stronger with dryland training? Are you putting forth a lot of effort but not getting very far?
How to Swim Freestyle Without Getting Tired
Have you ever wondered how some triathletes and open water swimmers seem to be able to just keep swimming forever? If you’ve wanted to learn how to duplicate their skills without getting tired, then this drill is for you.
