To see MANY interesting articles go to Swim Swam or Swimming World Magazine. Most of the articles below are from these websites.
Video: Do You Really Need a Sports Drink to Be Like Mike?
Video: Most Common Mistake in Freestyle - USE YOUR LEGS!
Female Athletes and Body Image
6 Things to Think About Next Time you Stumble With Your Swimming
10 Reasons Why I am Thankful to be a Swim Parent
How do I stay Motivated to Train Hard
Rethinking Goal Setting for Swimming
5 Questions to Ask Yourself to Swim Faster in 2017
What's the Best Advice for New Swim Parents?
Have a Bad Workout? Remember These 5 Things
11 Tips for Swim Parents About Really, Really Bad Swims
Recovery Strategies for Athletes
Three Things Parents can and Cannot Control
How Badly Do You Want It?
Can You Swim Faster by Caring Less?
Why I Swim
7 Reasons Why It Is Important to go to Swim Meets
6 Reasons you Are Not Seeing Success In Your Swimming
Yoga For Swimmers (Video)
Simple Shoulder Exercises to Prevent Injury (Video)
5 Things Your Swimming Coach Shouldn't be Doing
5 Things You Will Never Hear a Successful Swimmer Say
7 Self Defeating Thoughts Swimmers Need to Drop
5 Habits of the Mentally Tough Swimmer
7 Ways to Swim Fearlessly in 2015-2016
How to Balance Swimming and School
Conquering Anxiety in Swimming
8 Swim Mom Tips to Survive and Soar
How to Have a Better "Bad" Swim Practice
9 Things You Can Learn From Your Swim Coach
15 Signs You are an Awesome Teammate
7 Things your Swim Coach Wants You to Know
12 Parent Tips on How to Behave at Swim Practice
3 Common Training Roadblocks and How to Get Through Them
Swimming: A Lesson in Life
- Written by LEHY Alum, Andrew Jackwin
How to Hyper-Streamline in Swimming Instead of Simple Swimming
- A MUST WATCH for all swimmers! Streamline is important!!!
7 Things Swimmers Need to Know About Staying Motivated
5 Ways to Prepare for your Championships Swim Meet
How to Use Regret to Swim Faster and Smarter
5 Tips for High School Swimmers to get Recruited
A Parent's Role in the College Recruiting Process
A Letter to High School Swimmers Who "Aren't Good Enough" to Swim in College
- Don't sell yourself short! There is a college program for every level swimmer!
Swimming from a Non-Swimmer Perspective
Set Your Goals Easier and Not Bigger
-Great article about how goals should not all be set for the pool!
5 Hard Choices to Swim Successfully
One Bad Tweet Can Be Costly to a Student Athlete
The Pool Belongs to Those Who Show Up
6 Things Swimmers Need to Stop Telling Themselves
7 Strategies for Battling Pre-race Anxiety
9 Questions to ask a College Swimming Coach
Being a Swim Team Parent- section of USA Swimming that is updated with great articles for parents on a regular basis.
The Ten Commandments for Swim Team Parents
A Few Suggestions- an older article but still a lot of great points!
Nutrition Information from USA Swimming: Nutrition Expert in 60 Minutes
What should I eat after practice?
Why should I warm down? After a race or intense practice lactate acid continues to build in your muscles. We, the coaches, tell you the importance of cooling/warming down all the time, but now you can see through the charts below just how important cooling down is for muscle recovery.
Active (cooling down) vs. Passive (no cool down, shower, etc) Recovery
How much should I cool down?
