Competitive swimming looking to improve your times and technique, we have articles with the latest tips and tech to help you get of your competition
You do not need a particular frame to swim well, and you cannot swim your way into a skeleton you were not born with. A swimmer body is a lean, strong build with broad shoulders, a well-developed back and low-to-moderate body fat, shaped partly by inherited proportions and partly by years of steady training. Training
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A good swimming warm-up takes about 10 to 15 minutes: roughly five minutes of dryland work on the poolside, then 300 to 700 metres of easy swimming, kick and drills that build gradually into your main set. That sequence suits everyone from a nervous beginner doing their first few lengths to a club swimmer preparing
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The swimming catch up drill is a freestyle drill where one arm stays stretched out in front while the other arm completes a full pull and recovery, and you only begin the next stroke once the recovering hand taps the waiting hand. That single rule fixes rushed, windmilling arms faster than almost anything else a
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Most swimmers who plateau are not short of fitness. They are short of feedback. Swimming drills break your stroke into small pieces so you can feel one thing at a time, fix it, then put the whole stroke back together. The 12 drills below are grouped by the skill they build: body position, catch, breathing,
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You do not need a chef, a nutritionist, or a 6,000-calorie shopping list to swim well. If you train two to five times a week at a local club, fit lengths in before work, or squeeze a session in after school, your diet needs to be simple, affordable, and repeatable. A practical diet for swimmers
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If you have ever hit the 1,200m mark of a 1,500m set and felt your legs turn to concrete, you already know what running low on fuel feels like. Complex carbohydrates are the answer to that problem. They break down slowly, top up the glycogen in your muscles and liver, and give you the steady
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Dryland training is the work you do outside the water to swim faster inside it. It covers strength, power, core control and mobility, and it fills the gaps that laps alone will never close. If your shoulders ache after a hard week, if your legs feel flat off the wall, or if your hips sink
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A swim meet can stretch from a 7am warm-up to a 6pm relay, and the swimmers who finish strong are almost always the ones who ate little and often all day. The best snacks for swimmers at meets are carb-led, easy to digest, and portioned so you never sit on the blocks feeling heavy or
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If you want to swim faster, the pool is only half the equation. Swim strength training bridges the gap between raw fitness and real speed, giving you the power to hold a tighter streamline, drive harder off the wall, and maintain your stroke when fatigue sets in. Whether you are a club swimmer chasing a
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