
The Backstroke: How to swim “belly upwards”
Level: beginner Unlike the other three competitive swim strokes, the backstroke is the only one swum on your back for the entire race. This means that a good sense of …
Level: beginner Unlike the other three competitive swim strokes, the backstroke is the only one swum on your back for the entire race. This means that a good sense of …
Are you a beginner swimmer, who is trying to work out how to burn more calories to improve your fitness? Then this is the article for you! First of all, …
Developing an efficient freestyle leg kick can be broken down into various elements. In this article, we will try and focus on each of them, explaining how to train them …
Today we will be explaining how and why to use Pilates out of the pool to round off your training. The Pilates method is a training system devised by Joseph …
Cramps have the capability of making it temporarily impossible of using the effected muscle. They can either be light contractions, like a sting or light spasm, or more painful episodes that …
Although swimming is basically an individual sport, today we will show that you can also train in a group in the pool! Let’s take a look at some training drills …
You will have certainly heard about alternate freestyle breathing, but have you ever wondered what the real benefits are? Alternate breathing means breathing every three strokes or, rather, the ability …
A common mistake is to consider the triathlon as the sum of three different disciplines. In fact, it is a multiple-stage competition where, through transitions, are blended together three sports, …
The butterfly is, without a shadow of a doubt, the most energy-sapping stroke. You consume twice as many (kilo)calories swimming the butterfly than swimming freestyle. For this reason and because …
Even for triathletes the time has finally come to take a well-earned rest. The season has finally come to an end and, after taking stock of the season that has …