All Content Tagged

Swimming

While commonly enjoyed recreationally, swimming is a highly-competitive sport that tests the speed, strength, and skill of athletes through a variety of individual and team events. Race finishes often come down to just a fingertip as competitors use a variety of swimming strokes (dictated by the event category), including freestyle (front crawl), backstroke, butterfly, and breaststroke.

Find swimming clubs, camps, and clinics. Improve your skills with tips, tricks, drills, and more.

What Losing Swimming Taught Me
June 2, 2023
Swimming gave me so many of the amazing things I have today. I have been taught so many lessons that I wouldn’t have learned otherwise. In mid-November of 2017, I shared a piece about how my epilepsy diagnosis affected my swimming career. I had just suffered from my first grand mal seizure, but my doctors believed […]
Balancing Swimming and Academics
June 2, 2023
Instead of waiting for the fire to be out of control, spot the trouble patches early and reach out to your coach or teachers and let them know that you need some help. With another school year here – seriously, where did this year go? – comes another bout of the juggling that happens between […]
A College Dream Team
June 2, 2023
Every team my daughter has swam for made service a part of team experience. It was Kennedy who said, “To whom much is given, much is required.” Service builds character. This one is for all the amazing college swimmers headed back to the NCAA or NAIA for a new season. Some of you are starting […]
What Injuries Do Competitive Divers Face?
June 2, 2023
Many divers diet in order to be lean and muscular, but restricting calories also can lead to low energy, fatigue and an increased injury rate. Competitive divers face a high risk of injuring their shoulders, back, elbows, wrists and other body parts, according to a paper by a Loyola Medicine sports medicine physician. “Even when a dive […]
shutterstock_738059845
Five Strength Training Exercises to Improve Swimming Performance
June 2, 2023
Weight training is often a highly debated topic in the world of swimming. While there is no clear-cut right or wrong answer to whether or not weights are beneficial for developing swimmers, many year-round programs don’t even use weight training. Therefore, swimmers typically are not exposed to the weight room until college. For college swimmers, weight training […]
Proper Body Alignment Leads to Faster Swimming
June 2, 2023
Here’s the kicker though — human muscle sinks and fat floats. So if you’re a more built swimmer, it’ll be harder for you to keep yourself up at the surface versus someone who spends less time at the gym. Proper Body Alignment leads to faster swimming — but how exactly do you do it? In […]
Eight Swimmers on How the Sport Has Stuck With Them
Eight Swimmers on How the Sport Has Stuck With Them
June 2, 2023
“Swimming is all about friends. You retire from the sport, but you keep your swim friends forever.” If you’ve ever been a swimmer, you know that it’s not just a sport. It’s a lifestyle. A lifestyle that, if you’re committed, pushes you to your limits and changes you as a person. We asked eight swimmers […]
Six Ways Swimming Makes You More Hirable
June 2, 2023
Swimming truly is a social sport, and it’s always helpful to know people when you’re networking as you begin your job search. While swimming is obviously valuable for us physically, many people don’t realize the lasting effects it can have on people as they enter the professional world. Being a longtime athlete shapes you in more […]
shutterstock_474302830
Is Too Much Talent a Dangerous Thing?
June 2, 2023
At Swim Smooth we are firm believers that anyone can become a strong swimmer, whether swimming comes easily to you or if it takes you a little longer to get there. Of course it’s only natural that if you are frustrated with your lack of swim speed then you may be wishing you were more […]
Three Reasons Why Kids Need Morning Practice
June 2, 2023
Our kids benefit by being introduced to early mornings as teens, which may become a habit throughout their swim careers and beyond. What do Mozart, Benjamin Franklin, Tim Cook and Oprah Winfrey have in common with our swimmers? They were or are early risers — getting up before dawn — just like our kids wake […]
111 - 120 of 258 items