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Winterize a Swimming Pool
The main purpose in winterizing your swimming pool is to protect it from damage due to freezing water. Another is to keep it as clean as possible for the next season. Closing your swim pool properly can save you a lot of work when it comes time to open the swimming pool for the summer.
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Swimming's Benefits
Swimming is good exercise (that's obvious). A state government has even proclaimed that swimming is a lifetime sport that benefits the body and the whole person! But what is it that makes swimming good, specifically? That depends on what you are trying to accomplish. Swimming is a healthy activit...
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Swimmers To Do Swimming List
There are many things that you can do be a better swimmer. This to list of 10 ways be a better swimmer could help any swimmer improve in the water.
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Novice Swim Workout Plans
You are a swimmer, and have the basics of a swimming workout figured out and want to be a better, but other than getting in the pool, you feel like a beginner? No coach to write a fitness workout for you? Maybe you are a swimmer stuck in a rut, always doing the same workout, week after week, and ...
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Freestyle Swimming Drills
A guide for swimmers on performing several freestyle technique improvement drills to help make a swimmer's freestyle swimming faster and improve swimming efficiency. Learn how to improve swimming technique to swim faster and more efficiently by watching a video of freestyle swimming technique dri...
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Weight Lifting for Swimmers
Sport specific work is the best way to get better at that sport. But what else can you do? Flexibility exercises, plyometric work, swimming while wearing weights, and resistance training are some of the options. One example of resistance training is weight work aimed at adding strength and speed ...
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Drain a Swim Pool
A reader asks: I'm attempting to drain my inground plaster swimming pool for the first time. This is my first swim pool and I don't know that much about swimming pools. Our swimming pool expert's advice on draining swimming pools: Don't do it - here is why...
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Swim and Pool Games
Ever play swimming pool games? Here are a few that you or your kids may like to try next time they are swimming.
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Swimming for Swim Newbies
So, you want to improve your swimming ability or swim competitively, but aren't sure about the next step - or you have taken time off and want to "get back in the swim?" How should you start, and once you do, what next? Here are a few things to keep in mind as you splash through the pool.
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Challenges to Breathing
The most common question I hear in the triathlete world about the mysteries
of swimming efficiently usually involves something with breathing. In
freestyle, it is the first step to get your body position right. Then, for
many, you throw in breathing and everything goes haywire!
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Workouts for Swimmers
A series of swimming workouts for swimmers to help increase overall fitness, become a faster swimmer, or just to give a swimmer a new workout for their next trip to the swimming pool for swim practice or for their swimming workout.
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Swimming Pool Filters
There is a lot of confusion about various swimming pool filters, and many different opinions. Here are a few facts to consider. The first is that a pool water can be properly maintained with any of the filter systems available: Sand, Cartridge, or Diatomaceous Earth. Which one is right for your s...
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Eating and Diets for Swimmers
Avoid fat; fat is ok, eat it up. Avoid carbohydrates; carbohydrates should be the major portion of your diet. Consume a high amount protein; eat balanced portions of proteins, fats, and carbohydrates. There is a lot of conflicting advice out there. What should a swimmer eat?
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2008 Olympic Swim Results
The order of events for swimming at the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympic Games - the Beijing Olympic Swimming Schedule - has finals in the morning and prelims in the evening. Results for the top swimmers will be posted when available.
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Olympic Swimming Central
The swimming competition in the Olympic games is one of the most followed part of the Summer Olympics. Swimmers will compete for the gold, silver, and bronze medals in a variety of Olympic swimming events, from 50-meter freestyle races to the 10-kilometer open water race.
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Change Pool Filter Sand
How often should the sand in a swimming pool filter be changed? We recommend changing the sand every five years. Filter sand has been ground to a size of .45 to .55 mm in diameter and is very rough when new. This roughness is what makes the sand efficient at filtering out the particles of dirt in...
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Freestyle Swimming Basics
What is your mental picture of a freestyle swimmer? This is one result from an exercise to quickly describe different elements of freestlye swimming.
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5 Weeks of swim workouts for swimmers
5 Weeks of swim workouts for swimmers
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EVF Dryland Exercises
How important is an Early Vertical Forearm in swimming? It is undoubtedly the most important propulsive element in swimming and unfortunately for most swimmers, it also the most elusive. The bad news is that all the streamlining and effective conditioning won't make-up for a dropped-elbow, the an...
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Swim Without Fear
My understanding of a swimming teacher is they need to have a proficient knowledge of scientific principles, physiology and psychology; coupled with the ability to apply them to the individual is vital. Thoroughly understanding these elements allows the teacher to work within the capabilities of ...
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