Swimmers, ask yourselves these questions: Can you point your toes but not straighten out your feet? When you kick on your back, do you tend to: go very slow stay in one place even go ... Read More

When swimming freestyle, keep the top of your head pointing in the direction of travel. A swimmer's "Head Point" - the top of their head - works like a compass. ... Read More

When we learned to swim freestyle as children, most of us swim flat in the water, with little or no hip rotation as our arms are doing the majority of ... Read More

I've been swimming front crawl "seriously" for triathlon since May this year. I've improved but got to a state where I am not getting any better. I've been observed by ... Read More

Weight training and dryland exercises can be used for many things, including injury prevention, rehabilitation, gain strength, build general or specific fitness, or to cross-train to improve abilities in other ... Read More

Your Stroke-Length is how far you travel with every arm stroke. Because it's hard to use a tape measure while you're swimming, we count the number of strokes you take ... Read More

A webcam has been set-up to track the progress of construction of the 2012 Olympic Aquatic Center in London. The center is in the south-east corner of the Olympic Park. ... Read More

I'm in a math 111 class and we are working on a paper about linear functions. I want to do my paper on the age a person learned to swim ... Read More

Sable WaterOptics Swim Goggles have amazingly good optics, but I did not like the goggle's field of view. I felt like I was swimming in a tunnel. These goggles did ... Read More

The USA Swimming Foundation today released the nominations for the 2008 Golden Goggle Awards, a black-tie event celebrating the accomplishments of top American swimmers in 2008. The star-studded gala will ... Read More

The top swimmers in the country will return to the pool for the 2008-2009 USA Swimming Grand Prix Meet Series. For the second year in a row, swimmers will be ... Read More

A team in California, the Roseville Sugarbears, developed their own on-line application to help them coordinate swim meet volunteers and swimmers' meet sign-up, goal setting, and workout tracking. It is ... Read More

Universal Sports will provide coverage of the FINA World Cup starting Saturday, October 11 from Belo Horizonte Brazil. Taking place in seven cities on five continents, Universal Sports TV and ... Read More

Twenty-six of the USA's best college-age swimmers will compete in the 2009 World University Games to be held in Belgrade, Serbia. Swimming will take place July 5-11, with the full ... Read More

Many reports on English Channel swims are from the swimmer's point of view. What is it like from the support boat for a swim across the English Channel...

You probably think about what you eat before exercise, but do you know that what and when you eat after exercise is just as important? While eating high carbohydrate foods ... Read More

Open water swimming is a never ending adventure. There is a freedom and challenge swimming in open water which just can't be experienced in the pool. Besides that, it's fun. ... Read More

Juliet Lapidos reports on her swim goggle tests of the Barracuda Standard Goggle, Finis Jet Stream, Nike Swift Strapless Goggle, Swedish Goggles, Tyr Nest Pro Goggle, and Speedo Speed Socket ... Read More