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6 Bad Swim Practice Habits You Should Break Now

Elite swimmers like Matt Grevers understand the importance of having good habits in training. Here are 6 bad practice habits swimmers should break.

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Rio Reflections with Olympic swimmer Elizabeth Beisel

Three time Olympian and the 2016 swim team captain, Elizabeth Beisel, went into Rio with high expectations for herself.

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Do You Have the Patience to Achieve Success in the Pool?

Elite swimmers understand the need to be patient when working towards their goals. Will you be patient enough to see through your goals in the pool?

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16 Things You Didn’t Know About Ryan Lochte

Here are 16 things you probably didn’t know about one of the top swim stars on the planet, Ryan Lochte.

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2017 Maverick Swim Camp – Sign Up Today

This 5-day camp is a perfect format for swimmers to learn new drills, refine stroke technique, and focus on racing skills that can positively impact swimming performance.

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10 Things You Didn’t Know About Mark Spitz

The fastest moustache to ever graze the pool, here are ten things you didn’t know about one of the greatest swimmers in history, Mark Spitz.

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The 7 Curses of Being a Talented Swimmer

If you’ve spent longer than 5 minutes on a pool deck you’ve heard a coach or parent talk about how talented a swimmer is. Here are the downsides to being labeled as such.

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How to do the Back-to-Breast Turn with Gold Medalist Darian Townsend

This transition is essentially half of a backstroke turn and half of a freestyle turn.

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The Swimmer’s Guide to Staying Focused During Practice

By being more focused during your swim workouts, you will improve faster, reduce swim training boredom, and yes, swim faster on race day.

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Rio Reflections with Olympic swimmer Maya DiRado

Olympic gold medalist and Stanford graduate Maya DiRado was an absolute sensation in the pool at the Rio Olympics.

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FINIS: Train for Gold Like Brad Snyder

Over the next four years, Snyder established himself as a force to be reckoned with in para-swimming.

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8 Ways to Develop Self-Discipline for Swimmers

Self-discipline, self-control or willpower, there are numerous ways to label what it is to have the mindset and fortitude to do the things that you have to do, even when you simply don’t feel like it or feel up to it.

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How to Avoid the ‘Modern Toilet Seat’ Syndrome, Backstroke/Freestlye

I call this the ‘modern toilet seat’ syndrome, because in swimming freestyle and backstroke, the hand slows down just like a modern toilet seat with a spring on it to keep it from falling down hard.

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Spectrum Aquatics Launches New Pop Up Anchor

This new Pop Up Anchor has been designed and built with the user in mind.

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Introducing FINIS SwimEars® – Let Sound In. Keep Water Out

These revolutionary earplugs are designed to let sound in and keep water out.

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