Boys’ swimming in Iowa is a 14-week season from the first practice in October to the state meet in February. A significant amount of training is done over that entire span, but the holiday break can, ...

Swim clinics at the University of Minnesota’s Recreation and Wellness Center provide individuals with a resource for improving their swimming skills. The Gopher Swim School offers swimmers instruction ...

Every swimmer has been there—counting laps in your head, losing track halfway through, wondering if you’re actually swimming faster or just feeling faster. You want to improve, but sometimes the ...

Most adults are dangerously overconfident in the water-and it could cost them their lives this summer.

We’ve all seen the sports movie. Darkness surrounds our hero, as he studies the greatest athletes in the sport late at night. How can he improve? Will he rise to their level and win it all? It can be ...

Recovery support methods need to be examined through multiple approaches that should include protein intake as a vital recovery element.

Consider devoting one of five weekly swimming sessions to practicing the pool skills that military dive and rescue swimmer students will encounter during their intensive training. From drownproofing, ...