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Choosing Equipment to Improve Swimming Technique
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 your water borne…...
Choosing the Right Aerodynamic Swimwear
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 your swimming sessions....
Competitive Swimming - How to Stay Safe
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 risk....
Improve your Swimming Techniques
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 find…...
Marathon Swimming
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
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
Swimming in rivers and lakes used to be a popular public pastime before the arrival of public swimming pools - now a new generation are rediscovering swimming in the…...
Swimming in the Sea
Swimming in the Sea
The UK’s clean and golden beaches are enjoying increasing visitor numbers, but with this has come an increase of incident, and greater need for understanding the…...
The Benefits of Learning to Swim
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 not the case....
Tips on Choosing Swimming Goggles
Tips on Choosing Swimming Goggles
If you visit the swimming pool in pursuit of an aquatic workout then goggles are essential. But with a confusing array of designs now available, where do you start?...
Wild Swimming Spots in the UK
Wild Swimming Spots in the UK
Just the tonic for Britain’s clammy summers is slipping on swimming togs and leaping into the water, and the nation’s many lakes and rivers provide the best in…...
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