After a short break, I am back with some highlights from the Swimator Blog archives for 2011.
What swimming tips did you find the most interesting in 2011? That is the question.
Below is a short list of the top 10 Swimator Blog swimming tips:
1) As traditionally, our novice and beginner swi...
Swimming is a sport that is not natural to everyone.
Walking, running, biking, all of these are quite easy to master, however, it takes some coordination and stamina to learn how to swim and to top it all off, before we improve our swim technique, we all have a different swimming style based on...
Do you swim a lot on your own?
Are you a beginner swimmer or triathlete trying to grasp the sport?
Do you coach swimming and need some inspiration?
There comes a time when the imagination or needed knowledge does not work in your favor and you cannot come up with good swim practice.
You keep...
Have you ever wondered why every swimming pool is almost the same length?
I am going to have to disappoint you and tell you that I don't know why that is.
Someone probably came up with a standard that made sense and I guess it took off.
However, what I do know is that the largest swimming p...
Many of us are caught up in our fast-paced society often forgetting to just stop and think.
This causes us to do things over and over without realizing that there might be a smarter way to help us go forward.
As a swim coach or a swimmer, you should always be trying to adjust your ways and exp...
One of the basic skills of any beginner student of any activity is the ability to recognize if something is not done the right way.
Be it the ability to notice spelling mistakes in written texts (I am sure there many in my posts :)), the know-how to acknowledge that a ski jumper’s form during the...
I am sure you have all tried it, holding your breath (be it underwater or above the water) as long as you can.
I used to practice holding my breath to break my own personal records during my English classes :).
I guess this shows you how much interested I was in English, so if you find any err...
I've been swimming and coaching for many years and one thing that I see the most room for improvement, even in competitive swimmers, is the butterfly and breaststroke turn.
Let me give you a few tips and tricks on how to improve and speed up your butterfly or breaststroke turn.
1) Do not be...
It was in the 1970s in a small village in Sweden that the swimming goggle industry changed forever. Jan Malmsten, an avid swimmer and entrepreneur, designed simplistic, sleek, and affordable swimming goggles that were adopted by the majority of elite swimmers around the world.
These goggles, commo...
"Streamline, streamline, streamline", if I had a dollar for each time I say this word, I'd be a multi-billionaire at this stage, live in a mansion and have my own private 50-meter pool with a retractable roof.
If you visit this swimming blog often, you have read it over and over in my posts....