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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.

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Three Unusual Recovery Methods for Athletes
June 2, 2023
In addition to muscle recovery, the increased oxygen facilitates brain function and speeds up the healing process for injuries. The human body typically requires a couple days of recovery to heal from vigorous exercise, but with technological advances within the world of sports, some unusual techniques are being used to speed up the this process […]
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Why Isn’t My Child Dropping Time?
June 2, 2023
I received an email from a dad who was second guessing his decision to move his daughter to a new team. They switched teams to benefit the entire family’s schedule. Here’s the email and my response: “Dear Elizabeth, I was wondering if you could help me with a conundrum my family is having. My daughter […]
Ten Swim Coach Stereotypes
June 2, 2023
The Gipper. Pep speech before every workout. Before main sets. Before pre-main sets. Before warm-up. Swim coaches are a different breed. They work long, thankless hours, often times having to balance their coaching duties with another job. They coach because they love the sport, and we love them right back. Here are 10 different swim […]
Eight Diving Dryland Tips
June 2, 2023
Simple performing squat jumps and body weight squats isn’t going to cut it for an elite age-group or senior diver who has mastered every bodyweight movement. Diving is a unique combination of strength, power and flexibility. Whether you’re starting on a country club diving team just learning the approach and hurdle or are jumping off a […]
Can Perseverance and Grit Be Taught?
June 2, 2023
When we see our kids are giving it their all, let them know how proud we are. Letting our kids know that we value effort and hard work will encourage them to keep trying. Two outstanding traits of swimmers are perseverance and grit. We hear those words tossed around the pool deck, but what exactly […]
Eight Boo-Tacular Swim Drills to Spice Up the Season
June 2, 2023
Everyone has seen or experienced a cringe-worthy race where goggles fall around the swimmer’s neck, fill with water, or worst of all, in their mouth after they dive off the blocks. It truly is Spooktober for many college, high school and club swimmers, as their coaches begin to draw brackets around their main sets. Coaches […]
A Rally Cry for Officials
June 2, 2023
The benefit of the doubt goes to the swimmer, and officials are there to educate. Officials do not disqualify, swimmers disqualify themselves, the official acknowledges the infraction. It’s Not a Meet Without Officials When you boil a swim meet down to its bare essentials, the whole thing can be distilled down to four essential, inalienable […]
Confessions of a Helicopter Mom: Learn From Mistakes
June 2, 2023
It’s their sport not mine. The more I got involved and questioned my kids about details of their swimming, the less they wanted to talk about it with me. Parenting has taught me I am far from perfect. There are so many new emotional situations thrown at us with no instruction manual. Hopefully, we learn […]
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Scared of Swimming in the Ocean: Don’t Let Your Fears Hold You Back
June 2, 2023
Terrified of swimming in the ocean or open water? You are not alone. One of the most common things that put people off open water swimming or triathlons is the fear of swimming in deep water. This is something the majority of people who get into the sport have to get over, whether they admit […]
Strength Training for Swimmers: What Muscles to Train and Why
June 2, 2023
With powerful legs, you will be able to jump further in the air, which increases speed because it is easier to move through the air than it is to move through the water. There are five main muscles that make the largest difference in a swimmer’s performance. Latissimus Dorsi The latissimus dorsi muscle or commonly […]
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