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The Best Post-Workout Supplement Is...Gummy Bears? It’s no secret that eating healthy is important for athletes. Though Michael Phelps’ 10,000-calories-a-day diet may have been exaggerated, it is understood that swimmers and other endurance athletes require large amounts of nutrients to sustain them...

What Is and How Neural Fatigue Affects your Swimming Performance By Vanessa Steigauf, Swimming World College Intern Heavy arms and legs after a hard practice is something all swimmers know too well. As a normal reaction to exercise, our energy supply is empty and lactic acid probably accumulates in ...

5 Outside-the-Pool Activities For Faster Swimming When thinking about ways to become a faster swimmer, it makes plenty of sense to consider certain things you can do differently and better IN the water. However, more swimming does not always translate to better results. As a matter of fact, there ar...

Recovery: The Key to Surviving a Multi-Day Meet From the spectator’s point of view, the warm-down pool might look like a frenzied scene of splashing water and people swimming into each other. While it may look chaotic, each of those swimmers likely has a detailed plan in place regarding his or her n...

Soreness and Recovery Tips That Can Benefit the Body By Daniel Zeng, Swimming World Intern Discomfort is not an uncommon feeling. We use it to motivate ourselves to be better, or as a sign that we are actively trying to get out of our comfort zone, literally and figuratively. One thing swimmers know...

Wellness Trends: What's Available to Support Recovery? In an age when wellness and health dominate conversations, endless fitness trends naturally follow. From new treadmill workout plans to protein-heavy diets, there are countless ways to try to improve your fitness game. In recent years, recovery ...

Compression Sleeves: How They Work And Benefit Recovery Swimmers have always had the desire to be better in the pool. However, they are also able to improve outside the pool to complement their performance. For example, swimmers can take advantage of compression sleeves to improve their recovery....

By Brie Harnden, Swimming World College Intern. Recovery is a swimmer’s favorite word in the middle of a difficult training cycle. At a championship meet, it is the tedious but still welcomed process of long warm-downs, leg drains and stretching. But another common practice of ice bath recovery - al...

5 Things to Know Before an Open Water Race By Suzie Ryan, Swimming World Intern Open water racing is tough. You will be bumped around, swam over, and your googles will be ripped off. You will be faced with less than ideal conditions and unexpected variables throughout the race. Success in an open wa...

The Importance of Sleep for Recovery: Make Sure You Follow These Steps Mac Robertson, Swimming World College Intern. Going to swim practice each day can become extremely tiresome to even the world’s best. The rest and recovery that occurs out of the pool can be just as essential to fast swimming as ...

Maturing Athletes: A Swimmer’s Transition from Adolescence to Adulthood By Vanessa Steigauf, Swimming World College Intern As we get older and mature, our bodies go through several changes. And because we are athletes, we are trained to know our own body extremely well. We sense every change, even i...

By Eric Bugby, Swimming World Contributor and Associate Head Coach at West Point In a recent interview with Paul Newberry of the Associated Press, Michael Phelps swore off alcohol until after the 2016 Rio Olympics. Of course. That’s the consensus reaction to the news. Why wouldn’t a professional ath...

Do It Yourself: Simple Steps For the ROAD to Recovery...Or R-E-C-O-V-E-RY After taking on a long swim meet or getting through a challenging practice, all a swimmer really wants to do is head straight to bed. What athletes miss most of the time is an essential part of becoming a better swimmer: Recov...

Should Swimming Have a Longer Offseason? Taking time off is a foreign concept for swimmers. The sport is known to have no real offseason, except for a two-week break after the typical early-August championship meet.  With the coronavirus pandemic causing a months-long worldwide lockdown, swimmers go...

Welcome to the “Swim Drill of the Week” sponsored by The Fitter and Faster Swim Tour presented by Swimoutlet.com. Swimming World will be bringing you a drill, concept, or tip that you can implement with your team on a regular basis. While certain weeks may be more appropriate for specific levels of ...

Welcome to the “Swim Drill of the Week.” Swimming World will be bringing you a drill, concept, or tip that you can implement with your team on a regular basis. While certain weeks may be more appropriate for specific levels of swimming (club, high school, college, or masters), Drill Of The Week exce...

The Costly Nature of Swimming: From Suits to Food, the Dollars Add Up In the eyes of a non-swimmer, swimming is a seemingly inexpensive sport. Sure, swimming may not have all the bells and whistles as many other sports (for instance, you don't need to own a Formula One race car, or horse.) However, ...

By Olivia Wile, Swimming World College Intern. In a sport that comes down to tenths of a second, swimmers must pay attention to numerous details of training in order to reach their goals. Breathing into or out of a turn, into the finish, or even having a short or long finish can cost an athlete the ...

Wellness Wednesday: 5 Fundamental Recovery Tactics to Keep You Swimming at Your Best Rest and recovery are two of the most important assets to swimming at your peak, especially during a four-day long championship meet. With many collegiate conference meets coming up this month, it is a good time to ...

If you’ve never tried cupping before, it’s important you try it out, either on the performance or recovery side of things. Personally, I would respond well to it, but feel crummy in the water for the next day or two afterward. On the flip side, some people feel great right after. So, it’s important ...