Tag: pool swimming
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Pool sprints can sharpen your speed, coordination and skills for longer swims When open water swimmers try pool events, they often gravitate to the longer distances: 400m, 800m and 1500m. This makes intuitive sense. Open water swimmers train for endurance. For someone who’s done a 10km marathon swim, the 1500m in the pool sounds short.…
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One or two poor performances are not necessarily indicative of permanent decline. Here’s how to move past them. At a recent masters competition, I signed up for five races. The first two went badly. I felt uncoordinated, sluggish and unable to move my arms fast enough. There were good reasons for this. I had done…
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How to create the conditions to enter a flow state while swimming
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How to make progress in swimming through patience and finding joy in the process
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The 1500m is neither a sprint nor a marathon, yet it’s arguably more challenging than either
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Crowded swimming lanes don’t necessarily have to lead to frustration if you approach them with a Renaissance mindset