101 Ways to Improve Your Freestyle Swimming In the article, we will provide tips, hacks, drills and insights into ways you can improve your freestyle swimming technique. It’s important that swimmers ‘consistently and persistently’ incorporate drills and progressions into their training programme to reinforce and develop a great freestyle swimming technique. We have identified the … Continue reading 101 Ways to Improve Your Freestyle Swimming
Month: June 2019
Swimming Nutrition: An Introduction
Swimming nutrition is so important to a swimmer’s performance In this article, we’ll provide advice, hacks and tips on why the correct swimming nutrition is so important to a swimmer’s performance. Proper swimming nutrition is essential for optimum swimming performance. It provides the swimmers with the energy they require to cope with the rigours of … Continue reading Swimming Nutrition: An Introduction
Joining a Competitive Swimming Club
Joining a swimming club has many benefits In this article, we’ll provide advice, hacks and tips on successfully joining a competitive swimming club. What type of swimming club to join? It cannot be overstated enough, that it pays to do some research, before committing your child to join a swimming club. Joining the wrong club … Continue reading Joining a Competitive Swimming Club
Swimming Hydration: An Introduction
A swimmer needs to be well hydrated to perform at their optimum. Introduction: In this article, we'll provide advice, hacks and tips as an introduction to the importance of swimming hydration. We'll describe how to monitor your hydration levels and how much fluid a swimmer should consume per day to stay sufficiently hydrated. A swimmer … Continue reading Swimming Hydration: An Introduction
Rehabilitation from Swimming Injuries or Ailments
For competitive swimmers, being injured or ill can be extremely frustrating, especially if it inhibits or prevents you from training or competing. In this article, we will provide advice, insights and tips on swimming rehabilitation from injuries or ailments For competitive swimmers, being injured or ill can be extremely frustrating, especially if it inhibits or … Continue reading Rehabilitation from Swimming Injuries or Ailments
Setting Swimming Goals An Introduction
“I think goals should never be easy, they should force you to work, even if they are uncomfortable at the time.” Michael Phelps (USA) In this article, we’ll provide advice, hacks and tips as an introduction to setting swimming goals and how you can make your swimming goal-setting more effective. The benefits of setting swimming … Continue reading Setting Swimming Goals An Introduction
Monitoring Your Swimming Heart Rate
Monitoring a swimmer's heart rate while swimming can help to ensure they are training at the optimum intensity. In this article, we’ll look at the benefits of monitoring your swimming heart rate, and provide insight, tips and advice on how to do it. Monitoring a swimmer's heart rate can help to ensure they are training … Continue reading Monitoring Your Swimming Heart Rate
20 Ways to Improve Your Competitive Swimming
There are many ways a competitive swimmer can improve In this article, we’ll look at 20 ways to improve your competitive swimming. From goal setting to developing mental toughness, through to helping you to train at your optimum intensity. There’s bound to be at least one thing listed here that you could work on to … Continue reading 20 Ways to Improve Your Competitive Swimming
How Drafting Can Make You a Faster Swimmer
Drafting is a common practice in open water swimming In this article, we'll provide advice, insight, tips and hacks to help you improve your drafting technique. Although it's seldom used in the pool, is common practice in open water. But just what is drafting, how does it work and how can you best use it … Continue reading How Drafting Can Make You a Faster Swimmer