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Choosing Equipment to Improve Swimming Technique
As a super streamlined sport, swimming is light on equipment needs, but there are certain useful training items that can help make light work of...
Choosing the Right Aerodynamic Swimwear
You may not wear much clothing in the pool, but choosing the little gear you do wear carefully can have a significant impact on the quality of...
Competitive Swimming - How to Stay Safe
Swimming is a popular way to get fit and healthy because of its relative safety but the pressures of competitive swimming introduce new elements of...
Improve your Swimming Techniques
Are you swimming correctly? Believe it or not but most people aren’t. By tweaking your technique you will swim faster, reap greater fitness rewards and altogether...
Marathon Swimming
Marathon swimming is one of the ultimate tests of both the human body and the mind but endurance swimming against the elements is not for the meek and weak-willed....
Olympic Pool Facilities in the UK
Great Britain’s poor swimming performance at the Olympics has in part been blamed on its poor pool facilities. But this is all set to change in time for London 2012...
Swimming in Rivers and Lakes
Swimming in rivers and lakes used to be a popular public pastime before the arrival of public swimming pools in the 1960s killed it off - now a new generation are...
Swimming in the Sea
The clean and golden sands of the UK’s beaches have seen increasing visiting numbers year on year but with this has come an increase of incident, and greater need for...
The Benefits of Learning to Swim
With the UK surrounded by water swimming should be a survival skill of all its residents, but a recent survey shows this is far from reality, and learning to swim is...
Tips on Choosing Swimming Goggles
If you visit the swimming pool in pursuit of an aquatic workout rather than a jolly splash-about then goggles are essential. But with a confusing array of designs...
Wild Swimming Spots in the UK
Just the tonic for Britain’s clammy summers is slipping on swimming togs and leaping into the water, but rather than the stale vacuum of a indoor leisure pool, it is...
