When it comes time for a big meet or race, proper swimming nutrition can make all the difference between the silver or gold medal. Planning ahead will help you deal with hunger, digestive issues, and proper calorie intake. Here are a few ideas to keep in mind when eating and packing for the big day. [...]
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Nutrition For Swimmers
Like any sport, you need to power your body properly to get the most benefit from swimming. Power for your body comes in the form of calories. If you take in too many calories and don’t burn them off, your body will become sluggish and start to build fatty tissue. Eating too few calories to [...]
Freestyle
Freestyle is the term for a competition using unregulated swimming techniques. While any swim style can be used in a freestyle competition, the most commonly used method is the “front crawl”, as it is the fastest of the major swim techniques. This uses of the front crawl has lead to the term freestyle becoming synonymous [...]
Butterfly
Of the four swim techniques used in competition (the others being breaststroke, backstroke, and freestyle), the butterfly is the most recently invented, dating back to 1933. It is the fastest of the four competitive swim styles but also one of the hardest as it requires near perfect technique and extremely strong shoulder strength for it [...]
Breaststroke
The breaststroke is usually one of the first swim techniques that a beginning swimmer learns. It is a very popular style for recreational swimming because it allows the swimmer to keep his/her head out of the water for much of the time and doesn’t require as much side-to-side motion in the water. Alternately, in competitive [...]
Backstroke
The backstroke is one of the four swim techniques used in competition (the others being breaststroke, butterfly, and freestyle). One advantage to the backstroke style is that, since the swimmer is on their back, it allows for easy breathing. However, it has the disadvantage of the swimmer not being able to see where they are [...]
Popular Swimming Strokes
Swimming Strokes Swimming strokes are how a swimmer propels their body through the water. The strokes consist of various arm and leg motions to move the body forward. When done correctly, swimming strokes are smooth, graceful and designed to minimize water resistance. With the proper stroke, a good swimmer should be able to move through [...]