6 Tips for Swim Parents About the Car Ride Home
Try the following tips on the way home from a meet and see how your kids react.
How Your Athletes Can Give Their Best Effort, Every Race, Every Meet
In a perfect world, coaches and athletes are on the same page.
The 5 Best Free Resources for up and Coming Swim Coaches
“After being a swim coach for 14 years and a science educator for 7 years in sunny Tucson AZ, I know the value of free.” By Chad Castillo
Open Letter to IPC president Sir Phillip Craven
“This is an open letter to Sir Craven asking for his help in fixing the classification problems. Without his help, no progress will be made.” By Layne Bro.
A new season is here. Define it on Day 1.
PUMP UP VIDEO! “A new season is here giving all swimmers new opportunities to swim fast. We are fresh off the Olympics and inspiration is running high.”
Do You Have an Elite Nutrition Mindset?
There are 3 keys to having an elite mindset with your nutrition plan.
12 Reasons Why Swim Parents Should Join Masters
12 reasons why it is beneficial for swim parents to dive in the pool and join a masters program.
Doing the Work: Process Resists Glamorization
Process is the long game and the massive outlay of time and energy whose reality lies below the surface, away from the spotlight and the crowds.
3 Tips About Choosing the Best Team
As a swim parent, we want the best for our kids. We want them to be on the best team, have great friends and a fabulous coach.
The Beginner’s Guide to Watching Paralympic Swimming
Let’s get one thing out of the way first: it’s called the Paralympics, not the “ParaOlympics.”
SwimSwam Commenters Chastise Chuck’s Blogs
“You’re an idiot. You can’t write. You don’t make any sense” – This is how Charles Hartley has been greeted on the SwimSwam page recently, and he has something things to say to the commentators.
What Joseph Schooling Did on His Summer Vacation
If for a class at the University of Texas this Fall, Joseph Schooling had been assigned to write an essay, “What I Did on My Summer Vacation?,” the letter might read something like this.
What Makes a Swimmer Smart?
Do you think swimmers are, on average, more intelligent and better students than athletes focused on other sports?
Swimming the Distance for Team USA
Now that Jaeger is a member of Team WHOOP, he’s adapted his mental and physical approach to training.
5 Ways to Pass the Time Until 2020 Olympic Swimming Begins
We’re about four years away from when Tokyo holds the 2020 Summer Olympics swimming events. Until then, what are swimming people supposed to do?
