Catagories » general articles » health & injuries » technique » psychology » coaching   Mental Toolbox Spend as much time training your brain as you do your body! The Sports Psychology department at USA Swimming has put together a Mental Toolbox to help you achieve your swimming goals. Included in the toolbox are lessons, self-tests, and more. For example, the section on goal setting asks you to write out, "What were this weeks goals?". find out more »   From our Bookshop Gold in the Water: The Extraordinary Pursuit of Olympic Glory

General articles about swimming

21 top laws of swimming (By Jerry Heidenreich)
55 ideas for better swim team management (By John Leonard)
Are you a swim nerd? (By Wayne McCauley)
Back to basics: improving swimming fitness (By David Pyne)
Basic aquatics skills - part 7 (By Ron Coleman)
Basic aquatics skills - part 8 (By Ron Coleman)
Cigarette break? (or I wanna keep up with the big boys!) (By Emmet Hines)
Competition analysis for high performance swimming (By Bruce Mason and Jim Fowlie)
Evaluation of Swimming Technique (By Rein Haljand)
From fitness swimming to competition (By Suzanne Rague)
Getting publicity for your swim team (By Rick Beebe)
Getting stronger for faster swimming (By Wayne McCauley)
Heads up! The ultimate recovery workout (By Terry Laughlin)
High altitude training: myth or misunderstanding? (By Chuck Arabas)
Inside-out swimming (By Terry Laughlin)
Just how tough are you? (By Bernie Wakefield)
Keeping track (By Emmet Hines)
Keys to succes (By Hal J. Walker)
Kick-bored (By Terry Laughlin)
Lap swimmers, try an interval workout (By Wayne McCauley)
Laws of succes (By Dick Hannula)
Long course training in a short course pool (By Dick Bower)
More efficient speed (By Emmet Hines)
Of gravity and air (or is your head attached?) (By Emmet Hines)
Power vs. efficiency (By Emmet Hines and Ken Forster)
Quick twitch heaven (By Dan Thompson)
Smarter training with a heart rate monitor (By Wayne McCauley)
Sprinting ..... (By Sam Freas)
Stepping out of your comfort zone (By Emmet Hines)
Stroke - Frequency or efficiency? (By Bernie Wakefield)
Swimming etiquette (By unknown)
Swimming from A to Z (By unknown)
Swimming is not kids stuff (By Terry Laughlin)
Swimming posture (By Michael Collins)
Swimming tip of the year 1996 (By unknown)
The code of a good sport (By Handley)
The development of the modern stroke (By unknown)
The submarine controversy (By Paul Quinlan)
Tips for the speaker (By unknown)
Training Pieter van den Hoogenband: Preparing for Athens (By Oene Rusticus)
What do we need to do, and how to do it. (By Eddie Reese)
What does it mean to be part of a team (By John Leonard)
Why compete? (By Emmet Hines)
Why does that guy/gal always speed up when I try to pass him/her (By Emmet Hines)
Why technique matters more than fitness (By Terry Laughlin)