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Technique Tips and Swimming Workouts

These tips and workouts will help you develop better swimming technique, improve swimming fitness, design swim workouts and swimming practices, and build season training plans for one swimmer or for a whole swim team.
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How Has Swimming Been Good for You?

Swimming is a healthy activity, with many benefits. What have you found to be helpful or good for you from swimming?

One Thing You Could Do to Swim Better

Given the choice to do anything you are capable of doing, what would you do to swim better? What one thing would you change about your swimming technique, swimming workout habits, or anything else you do with swimming to swim better? Make a list and work on one thing at a time.

Bored? Find Ways to Shake Up Your Swim Workouts!

Are you getting bored with your traditional swim workout? Try some of these ideas to mix up your swim workout routine.

Things You Do To Swim Better

Share your ideas and tips with other swimmers to help them swim better.

Diaphragmatic Breathing Exercises Techniques for Improved Swimming Performance

What is the most effective breathing exercise technique for swimmers? Coach Shev Gul takes a look at diaphragmatic breathing exercises for swimmers and how to achieve it while swimming. Using these breathing exercises in swim practice could help a swimmer perform better in training and racing and help improve recovery from training and swim meet...

Help Dad win the Fitness Battle - Water Exercise

Every father has his own physical battles. Whether the enemy is a spare tire around the midsection, a golf swing gone aloof, continual back pain, knee surgery, lack of cardiovascular exercise, or another adversary... water exercise can help.

Swim Fast - Maximizing Forward Speed

Swimmers want to swim fast or swim more efficiently. To swim fast means swimming a distance in less time. Swimming more efficiently means swimming in the same amount of time, but at a lower energy cost.

Sign-up for 5 Weeks of swim workouts for swimmers

Swimmers, would you like to receive a set of swimming workouts each week to help you plan your practices? These workouts are designed to help your swim training, to build fitness, and to give you some variety in your exercise regimine.

Swim.EE Swimming Pictures

Sequential breakdowns of starts, strokes, and turns.

Ten Things You Can Do to be a Better Swimmer

There are many things that you can do to swim better. This to do list of 10 ways to swim better could help any swimmer improve in the water.

Top 10 About Swimming Articles in 2010

What About Swimming articles did swimmers visit the most in 2010? The top 10 visited articles on About Swimming included those on planning workouts and training, choosing swimming pool filters, and ways to swim with better technique.

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