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Available today, SwimShare is rocking the app world with free workout planning, tracking and sharing. SwimShare’s release comes after months testing by over 800 coaches worldwide. Managing workouts in SwimShare is quick, easy, intuitive, and free. Incredible A.I. powered features are coming soon as ...

A Look at Past Swim Sets From Legendary Texas Coach Eddie Reese Today, Swimming World continues to offer past workouts that have appeared in the magazine to its readership. This time, we share several past workouts designed by legendary University of Texas coach Eddie Reese and shared with Michael J...

9 Test Sets Swimmers Love or Hate: Which is Your Nightmare? It’s no secret that the swimming community holds an incredible diversity of talent – sprinters and distance swimmers, IMers and freestylers, backstrokers and breaststrokers. It’s also no secret that tensions between these groups can sometim...

5 Holiday Season Swim Workouts to Give a Try As the conclusion of another year draws nearer, the holiday season is right around the corner. No matter what traditions and celebrations you may participate in outside of the pool, it is also a great time to finish the year strong in the pool. Winter can...

Dryland swim training is meant to improve your performance year-round, even when you can’t make it to the pool. But many swimmers don’t feel fully confident when it comes to knowing exactly what to do in the gym to improve their swim performance. Should you lift heavy weights? Should you avoid heavy...

The Options and Benefits of Land Workouts for Swimmers It goes without saying that one must train in the pool if they want to improve at swimming, but what if that option is taken away? COVID-19 closed many pools and limited swimmers' opportunities to get in the water to train. Many resorted to land...

Butterfly workouts have a tendency to scare age groupers because, well, it's butterfly. Perhaps the perfect way to quell their worries is under the veil of 25s. This week's swim training set works varying distances of butterfly mixed with fast freestyle. There's a variety of ways to do this set, but...

The latest issue of Swimming World Biweekly is now available for download in the Swimming World Vault!  Non-Subscribers can click here to download For FREE – (Limited Time Offer) In this issue of Swimming World Biweekly, Abrahm Devine discusses life as an elite IMer and gay athlete, USAS releases th...

What's on a Swimmer's and Diver's Thanksgiving Menu? By Gigi Picard Swimming World College Intern What is Thanksgiving all about? Most years, it is considered simply “Turkey Day,” when you get to choose between light and dark meat at the dinner table and little kids paste colored turkey hands all ov...

How College Swimmers Can Stay in Shape During Summer Break By Rachel Sansano, Swimming World College Intern For the majority of college swimmers, the summer is a much-needed break from insanely early mornings and grueling workouts. The only problem is, when we all go back to our typical training sch...

Tips for Thriving Through a Winter Without a Training Trip It is a confusing time. Most college swimmers, and even some high school swimmers, are missing out on one of their favorite parts of the season: A training trip. Training trips are known for their long hours of grueling training, but somehow...

Welcome to this week’s installment of the Coaches Clipboard! On a regular basis, Swimming World will be bringing you a drill, concept, or tip that you can implement with your team. Each article is designed to be easily understand, outlining the what, why, when, and where of each concept in addition ...

This week's Swim Training Set Of The Week takes a look at a great specialty workout that works 100 speed and 200 pacing. The entire set, all four rounds, is specialty one (swimmer's best stroke). It's a great set that can accomplish a lot for the swimmer. Take a look: 4x 3 x 100 stroke @ best time +...

Attention Coaches: Can your Staff Plan, Collaborate, Store, and Instantly Analyze Your Workouts? If you answered “Yes”, it’s probably because you are one of the thousands of swim teams out there using Commit Swimming. If you answered “No”, read on. The Quick Tour of Commit Swimming and What It Can D...

5 Foods and Drinks That Prove Helpful for Workouts and Meets By Shweta Krishnan, Swimming World Magazine Intern Foods and drinks that fuel the mind and body are the recipe to success for a great workout. It seems like every day when swimmers are not in the pool, they are scouring their kitchen pantr...

3 Things A Swimmer Never Wants to Hear at Practice; Working Through the Challenges By Sadie Jones, Swimming World Intern Athletes are always told to have a positive attitude in order to achieve results, but sometimes that positive attitude feels just a little out of reach. Here are three examples of...

Welcome to Swimming World’s Set of the Week sponsored by CommitSwimming.com! This week’s set is a great set to introduce as your shifting into long course summer season. Take a look at the set below and the description that follows: 600 as kick/drill/swim by 50 (IM order by 150) 2 x (100 drill/swim....