An Open Letter to the Young Black Swimmer
“I write this letter because like you, I was also a young black swimmer. Through the sport, I got to experience an unfathomable number of successes throughout my childhood; not just in the pool, but academically, socially, and personally…”
Shallow Water Blackout: The Quiet Killer – Prevention
Courtesy of Julia Galan and VASA, a SwimSwam partner. This article is the final piece in our three-part series on…
5 Steps For Swim Coaches To Empower and Motivate Swimmers and Students
One of the biggest challenges for educators and coaches over the past several years has been finding proven methods for engaging young people in creating self-direction, and empowering them to overcome the obstacles in their lives.
3 Proven Ways to Develop and Support Motivation
How do we move from wanting or desiring to reach a goal to taking action in order to get it? In other words, what are the best ways for us to motivate ourselves, or to motivate others?
Testing the Pebble Watch on Swim.com
One of the newest innovations in swim training are swim watches. A few years ago you could only use a Garmin to monitor your open water swimming, but now there are several swim watches that will record data while you swim in a pool.
Shallow Water Blackout: The Quiet Killer – The Facts
In most swimming pool or non-diving situations when the victim’s medical history is irrelevant, blackouts occur due to prior hyperventilation, followed immediately by rapid, repetitive breath-holding.
4 Reasons To Give The BridgeAthletic Gift Package This Holiday Season
To give your loved one a Bridge training program this coming season/year, visit their site here and use the promo code CYBERMONDAY.
5 Reasons Why You Will Cry Watching the Film Touch The Wall
Do you ever get sick of swimming, just over it–chlorine-saturated and water-logged to the point you don’t even want to…
Dolfin – Anchored In Rich American History
Dolfin has an incredibly rich history that dates back to the early days of World War II.
This Holiday Season Give Them a Competitive Edge
For Black Friday, BridgeAthletic is offering SwimSwam readers the ability to give the gift of an elite level strength program at a discount.
Shallow Water Blackout: The Quiet Killer
This article is the first in a series of three on shallow water blackout that we will publish to raise awareness of the issue and help prevent further tragedies from occurring.
Objectivity: The Case FOR and AGAINST Phelps as Athlete of the Year
Several eyebrows were raised last night at the 2014 Golden Goggles Award Ceremony as Michael Phelps’ name was announced as…
CopyMe: More of YOUR swimming content just added
Since CopyMe debuted last week, users started creating their own content using this feature in the app. Just yesterday, we reloaded the library with this content for you to browse and try. Now, take your turn to “drop off your moves” at the CopyMe library.
