Final rating: 5/5
I’ve grown up as a full-blown chlorinated pool swimmer with lifelong search for the perfect fitting goggles.
I swear, I must have tried like 50 different types and always found them inadequate.
Either they leaked or the suction was too much on the eyes until I found the...
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Just watch and learn from one of the best swimmers of all time.
The Russian rocket - Alexander Popov.
The ultimate sprinting machine from Russia.
He used to have one of the most beautiful and most efficient strokes out there.
His coach Gennadi Touretski, currently living an...
Many of you have asked me to give some breaststroke workout advice in your comments, so here it is.
Below you will find a few tips for your breaststroke 50s and 100s and I am sure it could come handy for longer events as well.
First, keep in mind that breaststroke is a combination of leg power...
Learning to swim with the correct technique can be quite challenging during the first attempts, however, do not get yourselves discouraged.
Many have learned to swim before you and many will follow.
In fact, what seems like an impossible task to master is, with a little patience and perseveran...
I am of the belief that every child should be taught how to swim at an early age.
The earlier the better.
Actually, infants are quite comfortable in the water and if not nurtured and practiced, we somehow lose this comfortableness in the water when we get older.
Even though later in their li...
Final rating: 4.75/5
If you have taken a few swim lessons or you have been around swimming for a while, you have probably heard the term "feeling for water".
Many swimmers and instructors put emphasis on gaining feeling for water, but when it comes to explaining what it is and how it feels...
If you ask top athletes out there about what makes them give it a 100% at every practice even if the body says no?
The answer is relatively simple.
The thought of their goals being fulfilled motivates them to achieve the impossible.
Of course, let's come back to earth and realize that we are...
This is an additional post on proper head position while swimming freestyle.
I know you might be tired of hearing the words "put your head down" while you swim, however, believe me, if I tell you, this is the building block of your swimming.
Without the proper head position, your stroke wi...
If you are still on a hunt for the one perfect Christmas swimming gift for your loved ones or even for yourself, don't look any further.
Let me highlight a few swim items which I think would make a perfect gift for a swimmer.
Firstly, I apologize to those swimmers who do not celebrate Christmas,...
Learning to swim at an early age can have many more advantages than just mastering necessary water survival skills.
It could, for example, lead to a longer-term swimming career which will affect the swimmer's life even if he or she does not plan on it.
Sure, not everyone will be in the Olympic...