Does Creatine Improve Swimming Performance?
Creatine is a great way to get more out of your workout and build lean muscle. But is it appropriate for swimmers? Swimmers need immense muscular strength and endurance. Not [...]
Repetitive Freestyle Swimming Workouts
"Practice makes perfect." This is more than an old cliché coaches throw around. Your brain records specific movement patterns, speed and techniques, so repetitive freestyle swimming workouts will wire you [...]
Develop Shoulder Stability for Swimming With the Arm Bar
Swimming fitness is a broad versatile term. Not only is swimming great for cardiovascular capacity, but also, since swimming is low impact, it's perfect for rest and recovery. The lack [...]
"Swimming Studies" Gives Swimmers New Meaning
Leanne Shapton's memoir, Swimming Studies, explores the persistent inequity between swimming and other sports. Like many other swimmers, Shapton felt that no matter how many meets, speed trials or performances she [...]
Performance Benefits of Swimming
Does swimming build muscle? Swimming is a low-impact activity with no progressive overload, which makes it hard to gain or build muscle. That said, swimming is ideal for strengthening stabilizer [...]
Elite 50: Ranking the Nation’s Top Men’s Swimming Programs
In STACK’s swimming rankings, we take you beyond wins and losses to reveal what truly makes a men's swimming program great. To come up with our list of the top [...]
Elite 50: Ranking the Nation’s Top Women's Swimming Programs
In our rankings of the top swimming colleges, we take you beyond wins and losses to reveal what truly makes a college swim program great. To come up with our [...]
Olympian Swimming Skills: Perfect Your Freestyle Turn Off the Wall
A perfect flip-turn can shave seconds off your race, but perfection takes practice, time and skill. Learn how to make the perfect break below. How should I approach the turn? [...]
Olympian Swimming Skills: Five Ways to Improve Your Freestyle Form
Freestyle is one of the most popular events in the sport of swimming. Naturally, that also makes it one of the toughest events for an athlete to succeed in, so [...]
Straighten Out Posture Issues With Minnesota Swimming
A swimmer’s shoulder flexibility increases naturally through the constant movement and repetition of the stroke. And as long as a swimmer is swimming with correct stroke technique, shoulder flexibility should [...]