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The 12 Best Swim Snorkels in 2025: Reviewed by SwimSwam

Whether you’re focusing on technique, stroke symmetry, or just taking pressure off the lungs during warm-up, a good snorkel can be a game-changer.

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Best Triathlon Wetsuits for Speed, Comfort & Buoyancy

Looking for a triathlon wetsuit? We reviewed the top suits for speed, comfort, and buoyancy. See the rankings for sprint, Olympic, and Ironman races.

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A Feedback Loop Swimmers Can Use to Improve Like Crazy

Learning from your swim workouts—good or bad—is jet fuel for faster swimming. Here’s how to do it for more consistent workouts this season.

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2025 Best Budget-Friendly Tech Suits for Competitive Swimmers: A Buyer’s Guide

When it comes to tech suits, swimmers know—premium suits can cost $500 or more. But what if you don’t have that kind of cash lying around?

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The Best Women’s Swim Training and Lap Swimsuits

The perfect suit is armor, second skin, and confidence—because when your gear doesn’t fail, your focus stays on the workout.

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8 Best Swim Backpacks for Swimmers 2025 Reviews

Swimmers live out of their backpacks, and bad ones can ruin your flow. Broken zippers and wet gear mixing with dry clothes equals pain.

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Why Swimmers “Choke” on Race Day

Frustrated with choking on race day? Here’s why it happens and some ways to stop so that you can swim fast when it matters.

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13 Best Swim Caps for Long Hair, Kids, and Competitive Swimmers

For swimmers with long hair, especially kids who train daily, that means tearing through caps (and hair) more often than they should.

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2025 SPIRE Swim Camps – Sign Up Today

Camps focus on technical aspects of racing and are designed to specifically develop the four competitive strokes plus starts, turns…

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2025 Bolles Swim Camp – Sign Up Today

“Join the Tradition of Excellence at Bolles Swim Camps!”

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How The Elite Race The SCY 200 Free Volume 4: Data Trends, Gender Differences, Pending W Surge

Since Missy Franklin in 2015, there are only two swims sub-1:40. Is a surge coming?

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New in Commit: Attendance Taking Improvements

Courtesy of Commit Swimming, a SwimSwam partner Commit Swimming has Team Management Software New Updates: Attendance Taking Improvements Key Enhancements…

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Todd DeSorbo and Ken Ono Present Velocity Swim Camp – Sign Up Today

Redefine your swimming in the most advanced swim camp ever created—built by U.S. Olympic Head Coach Todd DeSorbo and renowned mathematician Dr. Ken Ono

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12 Best Nose Clips For Swimmers To Keep The Water Out

If you’ve ever had chlorinated water shoot up your nose mid-backstroke breakout, you know exactly why these little plastic clamps matter.

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How To Use Stroke Rate To Build Stroke Length

Giving swimmers a set stroke rate and then asking them to go continuously get faster, without changing their stroke rate, is a beneficial drill.

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