5 Life Lessons You Will Get From Swimming
There is so much more to the sport of swimming than best times and endless morning workouts with your best friends. Here are 5 life lessons you’ll pick up during your swimming career.
The Day Bill Pilczuk Shook the Swimming World in Perth
In January 1998 a soft-spoken Bill Pilczuk shook the swimming world when he dethroned the top sprinter in the history of men’s swimming.
Swimmers: A Letter from Your Strength Coach
With a totally new environment, new training partners, and the addition of weight training (for many swimmers for the first time), it can be a confusing and frustrating experience.
A Letter to the Practice Swimmer
Tired of being the swimmer who works hard in practice but can’t rise to the occasion in competition? I got you.
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If You Wanna Train Better, Swim with Faster Swimmers
The people you train with have a strong effect on what kind of effort you are going to give at practice today. Here’s some interesting research on why you should choose to swim with the faster swimmers on your team.
How to Stay Hyper-Focused All Season
The swim season is a long haul. Here’s a way to keep your focus (and motivation) tight all year long.
Why Swimmers Should Peer Mentor Younger Teammates
We’ve all heard of the buddy system and mentoring. Here’s how peer mentoring can help boost team culture, increase sense of belonging, and help swimmers in and out of the water grow.
7 Reasons Why Caeleb Dressel’s Start is So Deadly
Caeleb Dressel’s start has become a thing of legend. Here are some things you can learn from the fastest swimmer on the planet.
5 Reasons You Should Be Doing Lots of Vertical Kicking This Season
Vertical kicking is one of the best ways to develop a crazy-fast kick, improve your core strength, and become a more proficient dolphin kicker. Here are five reasons to sub in vertical kicking into your training this season.
7 Things Your Swim Coach Wants You to Know
Your swim coach will be teacher, counselor and friend to you over the course of your career in the pool. Here are 7 things they would like you to remember.
5 Things You Can’t Control in the Pool (and What to Focus on Instead)
Are you spending your energy and focus on the right things in the water? Give your performance in training and competition a boost by investing your effort in the right areas.
7 Things Swimmers Can Learn from Nick Saban’s “How Good Do You Want to Be”
What can an elite college football coach teach swimmers about perseverance, mental toughness, and swimming faster than ever? Lots.
How to Prepare for the Moments in the Pool When Things *Really* Hurt
We all experience it at one point or another in training and competition: the moment where our shoulders and legs lock up and we die. Here’s how to be mentally prepared to conquer that moment.
When You Don’t Feel Motivated to Go to Practice
No matter how committed you are to your goals there will be days where the last thing you want to do is go to the pool. Here’s how to battle through those lulls so that the work gets done at practice.
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