Swim Life

5 Helpful Lessons Learned From Team Travel Trips We are getting to the point in the season where many teams have traveled or are about to travel for competitions. Travel trips are exciting, especially when going to new places with teammates. They are also great for team bonding. However, travel trip...

10 Hidden Benefits of Swimming Everyone wants to be an Olympic swimmer. But luckily, you don’t have to be an Olympic swimmer to benefit from the sport. People of all ages, from all backgrounds, and with various levels of experience can benefit from swimming. Swimming is one of the few sports you can...

The 'Small' Finale: How to Cope with A Bad Champs Meet; And What It All Means Hey swimmers. As the swim season comes to a close, as it always does, I'm sure plenty of you (if not all of you) just had a pretty important swim meet. Practiced all year, tapered for a few weeks, took extra good care of y...

8 Things Only Swimmers Will Understand On average, swimmers spend 12 hours per week training to be the best athlete they can be. That means countless miles following that black line, hundreds of tumble-turns, and plenty of time spent with teammates. What’s certain is that swimming is a sport that re...

The Difference Between Aerobic and Anaerobic Workouts For Swimmers The correct management of aerobic and anaerobic sets within a swimmer's training will influence performance. This balance includes sharpening cardiovascular endurance and sprint speed. For instance, sprinters are more anaerobic-orien...

The 7 Sins of Swimming (From the Archive - Originally Published 2017) By Chandler Brandes There is no such thing as a perfect swimmer. As swimmers, we sometimes (although rarely) make mistakes. We may DQ, forget our heat and lane, or even accidentally-on-purpose rip our cap at the exact moment a har...

3 Helpful Ways To Overcome a Missed Cut Time By Reagan Reetz, Swimming World College Intern Many swimmers set goals with a particular meet in mind. Whether it’s Olympic Trials or a state age group championship, the deciding factor for attending those meets can be a single hundredth of a second.  The...

As swimmers, we can look for quick fixes. We know that we can adjust a flip turn here, tweak a breath there, and throw in a few extra dolphin kicks off of our start—and that could shave time off of even the shortest of races. However, we are not always eager to reach for the more long-term aids to o...

The Age of Underwater Racing: How Hypoxic Training Can Make You a Better Swimmer Swimming has traditionally been an above-the-water sport. With new tools and techniques, swimmers can spend more time underwater, which speeds up their race times. This shift toward underwater racing has caused some swi...

15 Truths About Swimming Swimming is a sport like no other. You learn a lot about yourself throughout your years as a swimmer and the sport inherently instills valuable life lessons in you. Even when your time as a competitive swimmer is done, you still continue to learn more about the sport and hav...

The Big Deal About a Swimmer's Nutrition By Bailey Duran Swimming requires massive amounts of energy, whether it’s an elite-level practice or an age group practice. Because of this high energy expenditure, swimmers need to take the right steps to replenish the nutrients lost. According to wellness c...

6 Reasons Why You Should Become a Summer Swim Coach  Since we are nearing the end of the swim season, the sweet sunscreen taste of summer swim is in the air. Many summer swim teams are already beginning their searches for coaches. There is always a need for people enthusiastic and knowledgeable abou...

10 Things That Should Not Be Said to a Swimmer By Brooke Irving, Swimming World College Intern Swimmers lead a lifestyle that doesn’t make sense to non-swimmers. But can we really blame them for not understanding? Like no other, we voluntarily jump into a cold pool in the dead of winter (most often ...

Sometimes the Magic Works: Reflections on Sports and Parents By Kate Mayer Mangan, Guest Contributor My nine-year old son told me recently that he was glad I didn’t understand his sport. He plays tennis; I swam. And he’s right that I have no idea what he’s doing on the court. I try, but I’m still le...

What Makes the Perfect Swimmer's Body? Although swimmers with a wide variety of body types have found success in the sport, most at the international level tend to look similar, sporting tall and muscular bodies - typically with long torsos, long arms and short legs. This begs the question: If you c...

How Many of These 5 Swim Tricks Can You do? (With Videos) By Morgan Pestorius In every sport, there are certain tricks that you learn by participating. For instance, every good basketball player knows how to twirl a ball on their finger. Swimmers are no different. These are tricks every swimmer shou...

Take Your Swimming to the Next Level: How to Pursue a Collegiate Career For many swimmers, competing at the collegiate level is a dream. However, navigating the recruiting process may be difficult and daunting, and many aspiring athletes need to be made aware of the steps they must take to make thei...

3 Habits To Adopt For Better Swim Practices Swimmers have an amazing ability to get better when they put in the correct work at practice. While most athletes use effort as a way to measure their success, they are not always using the right tools to ensure they are getting the most out of pr...

Life After Swimming: How To Prepare For What Comes Next Senior year for college student-athletes might mean the end of many things, including their sports career. Nonetheless, at best, that means a new chapter in their life. With graduation getting closer, college swimmers start facing what might be...

Why Swimming Is Worth the Sacrifice and Time Demands By SuSu Almousa (From the Archive) Swimmers become “swammers" and swammers typically stay swammers but the sport doesn’t leave us as easily as changing a vowel in our titles. In retirement, we watch meets and there is typically a yearnin...