Training & Technique
Improve your performance with autogenous training
You can get the best out of your body using psycho-physical relaxation techniques. Find out how! We have already taken a look, several times, at those physical disciplines that can …
Fitness & Wellness
Swimming and back pain, exposing the clichés
Swimming has many benefits both physical and psychological. It is a complete sport, suitable for all ages and is useful for increasing muscle tone, strengthening bones and even the skeletal …
Training & Technique
The swimming formula – science explains how to go faster
v = (Pm*Ep)/D At first this strange formula would appear to have nothing to do with swimming in a pool, but science tells us that a swimmer’s speed is studied …
Training & Technique
Swimmers Posture
“Posture influences strength, injury risk, and performance. Learn why swimmers have poor posture and even the term “Swimmers Posture” named after them.” A rounded spine and forward head posture are …
A Swimmer's life
Race day and…everything that can go wrong!
Sooner or later everybody, beginners and more experienced swimmers alike, will inevitably have something go wrong on race day. Here is what might happen and how to deal with it …
Training & Technique
From non-competitive swimmer to masters athlete: how, when and why
The main reasons we go to the pool in our leisure time are: to enjoy the water, to feel good (to improve our cardiorespiratory functions, muscles and bone structure and …
A Swimmer's life
5 things not to do unless you want to be hated in the pool
Have you ever finished a training session and noticed you had some bruises without knowing how you got them? Swim lanes, particularly when they are packed, can be accidents waiting …
Training & Technique
Find out whether the time has come to change your mentality
An athlete who recognises their own skills and works hard with a positive attitude and winning mentality can overcome past failures and achieve new and even higher goals. “A winner …
Training & Technique
Not much time for training? Here are some exercises (in and out of the water) for you! Part 2
Combined physical fitness/swim work-out by the pool for beginners and time-crunched swimmers. Here is another training session based around a combination of both physical exercises out of the water and …
Training & Technique
3 tips to make your freestyle even more efficient
In this article, we would like to give you three more tips to make your freestyle even more efficient, also suggesting some special drills to improve your arm stroke. In …