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10 Ways To Recover After Swim Practice

10 ways to help speed up recovery after practice.

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5 Ways to Relax Before Your Next Big Race

#3 – Search your history of awesome swims for what worked.

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5 Goals Every Swimmer Should Set This Season

Let’s take a look at the 5 goals every swimmer can put their mind to this season, and how they’ll put you on the fast track to great performances.

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8 Questions Every Swimmer Should Ask Themselves

Olivier Poirier-Leroy has 8 questions that swimmers should ask themselves every day.

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5 Things You Will Take Away From Swimming

Olivier Poirier-Leroy is a former national level swimmer based out of Victoria, BC. In feeding his passion for swimming, he…

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A Day in the Life of a Swimmer (Video)

Djordje Mihajlovic, a Trinidadian/Serb swimmer going to school and training in Kenya, has made a video about a day in his life. It resonates with just about all swimmers, though. Watch it and see.

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Utah Swimming 2016 New Years Weights

As the new year begins, strength and conditioning coach Deniz Hekmati started 2016 with a bang, creating the Ute’s New Year Workout.

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Top 6 Exercises For Strength And Muscle

One of the most important things every swimmer should do when they workout is build strength and muscle.

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The Key To Success: Trust Your Coach

Most of the success as a swimmer comes from how hard they train and how motivated they are to reach their goals, but a huge factor in how well you train and compete, comes from your coach.

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How To Train Through That Dreaded Plateau

When training, at any level, a lot of people struggle with progress after training for a while and hit a plateau. This is commonly known as the ‘plateau syndrome’.

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Master This Killer Glute Workout To Help Improve Kick

This killer glute workout will help get that kick stronger for any race.

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Words Of Wisdom To Incoming College Swimmers

Things to keep in mind as an incoming college swimmer.

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What’s next for Reece Whitley? Q&A with Penn Charter Aquatic Club coach Crystal Coleman

We caught up with Whitley’s coach Crystal Coleman of the Penn Charter Aquatic Club to get some insights into Whitley’s training and the duo’s plans for the coming season.

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Swimmers, Sweat, and Why You Need Electrolytes

In the water, the obvious indicators of dehydration are less apparent—excessive sweating, dry mouth, overheating, etc., so it’s easy to forget to drink fluids steadily throughout practice.

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3 Ways to Recover and Refresh Post-Season

3 Ways to recover and refresh between the short course and long course season.

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