How to Ease Your Child’s Fear of Swimming
Learning to swim is an important skill that should be learned at an early age. This is great for parents of eager swimmers but what do you do if your child is fearful of the water? The following tips can help ease your child into the water. Take your Child’s Fears...
Benefits of Solo Travel
Have you ever seen someone traveling in a foreign country by themselves and wondered what it would be like? Solo travel provides so many opportunities that traveling in a group does not. If you have the chance to take a trip by yourself, do it! Why? You will enjoy...
How to Cross Train for Competitive Swimming
Swimming World Magazine explains that swimmers can reap major benefits in the pool from strength and cross training on land. With so many options, it is important to evaluate the type of exercise you are doing out of the pool to ensure it will best benefit your stroke...
Benefits of Traveling
We all know that travel is good for us, but have you ever pondered exactly why? What does travel do to us? Traveling the world isn’t just fun and exciting; there’s abundant research to suggest it’s highly beneficial for your physical, mental and emotional health as...
To Train For Open Water, or Closed Water—That is The Question.
Freestyle swimming is often analyzed to the very bone. Names like Michael Phelps and Ryan Lochte have been the subject of countless replays while swimming instructors and coaches alike look on and preach of their impeccable technique. While these world-class athletes...
The Golden Age is Now
Very few of us are lucky enough to realize when a golden age is upon us. It’s difficult, if not outright impossible, to fully appreciate a golden age while it is happening because we perpetually want things to improve. No one wants to look forward to the inevitable...
The Olympics are Over. Swimming is Not.
Well, the Rio games have come to a close. A historical Olympics for United States swimming, we were awarded a remarkable 33 medals (16 gold, 8 silver, 9 bronze). Katie Ledecky captured American hearts and minds. Michael Phelps, somehow, one-upped himself yet again....
Deaf Swimmer Andrew Ress Completes Solo English Channel Crossing
This is the inspiring story of deaf swimmer, Andrew Ress, on his mission to swim the English Channel solo. With remarkable resilience, he was able to complete the tremendous swim in fifteen hours and fourteen minutes. For more information, check out the article...
10 Hidden Benefits of Swimming
This fantastic article briefly extolls the lesser known benefits of swimming. For an inside look at exactly what it is that makes swimming so great, look no further. Full of helpful and interesting information, you are bound to never look at swimming the same again....
Michael Phelps is Olympic team captain for first time
Although I will say it seems a little surprising that this hasn't happened already, I will also say it's well deserved. Congratulations to Michael Phelps on being named Olympic Team Captain. Yet another first to notch on your belt. I look forward to seeing what Rio...