About
The Mission
Welcome to YourSwimLog.com, the ultimate resource for swimmers.
YourSwimLog.com is a website for swimmers, coaches, and parents looking to make faster swimming, simpler.
Whether you’re an age group swimmer, experienced collegiate athlete, two-time Olympian or a swim coach, we aim to provide the best in knowledge, tools, and resources to guide you towards faster and smarter swimming.
The mission at YourSwimLog.com is to offer expert, actionable advice on swim training, mental strategies, and swim gear selection, so you can hit the pool in practice and competition with total confidence.
From our best-selling books, including Conquer the Pool and YourSwimBook to in-depth technique and training articles to goggle and gear reviews, every word is written for swimmers, by swimmers.
The Team
My name is Olivier Poirier-Leroy and I am the founder of YourSwimLog.com and the author of YourSwimBook and Conquer the Pool: The Swimmer’s Ultimate Guide to a High-Performance Mindset.
YourSwimLog.com is a place for swimmers and top coaches turn to when they want actionable and proven tips for faster swimming.
My goal with this website is simple–to share my passion, expertise and knowledge of the sport that I love and help you swim faster than ever.
My Swimming Journey
My parents enrolled me in swimming lessons as an over-active 5 year old to curb any worries they would have about taking me near bodies of water.
Turns out, splashing about was right up my alley! Soon enough I was doing laps with a bunch of other pre-tweens for the Manitoba Marlins while cannon-balling relentlessly between sets.
Swimming would take me all over North America in the following years; Princeton, New Jersey (see left) where I caught the swimming bug via summer league swimming. From there, it was off to the deep snowbanks of Winnipeg, Manitoba, and the Pacific Northwest, where I would spend several years training with the Pacific Dolphins (now known as the UBC Dolphins).
During the course of that time I would set a couple provincial and national records, notch several top national age group rankings, and also break a NAG record with several teammates in the 4x100m medley relay at Senior Nationals.
Towards the end of my career, I finaled at Canadian Senior Nationals in the 200m free, and the following spring I helped lead McMaster University to an OUA championship, winning a couple gold medals along the way.
After taking nearly a decade away from the sport, I fell back in love with the water during 2013 and started training again semi-seriously while beginning this website and starting a column with SwimSwam.com.
These days, you will still find me at the pool each day, cranking out noon-hour lap swims when not writing or spending time with my wife (also a swammer), daughter, and our handsome-good-boy golden retriever, Beau.
The Books
On this website we (exclusively) sell two books for competitive swimmers.
The first, YourSwimBook, is a log book that is designed specifically for competitive swimmers. It features a ten-month log that helps swimmers track what matters most, goal-setting sheets, and accountability tools to help swimmers stay motivated during the long grind of training.
The second, Conquer the Pool, was published in 2017 and is a 300-page workbook for competitive swimmers. It’s jam-packed with strategies, tools, and tips for maximizing performance, including how to build legit self-confidence, mental toughness, and nerves of steel to kick butt on race day.
YourSwimBook: The Ultimate Logbook for Competitive Swimmers
Conquer the Pool: The Swimmer’s Guide to a High-Performance Mindset
It’s an honor to say that thousands of swimmers and some of the top clubs and head coaches on the planet trust me and these books to help them perform at their best.
Some of the teams and swim clubs using the books include:
Featured Articles Around the Web
Since 2013 I have been writing like crazy about our sport. From the struggles of being a (reformed) distance swimmer to more science-backed material that covers strength training for swimmers to mental training, I’ve written about much of what our sport has to offer.
My writing has been featured all over the web. I have regular columns with SwimSwam, USA Swimming (both online and their quarterly Splash Magazine), and STACK.
I have also written for U.S. Masters Swimming, American Swimming Coaches Association, NISCA, Australian Swimming Coaches & Teachers Association, Muscle & Strength, and more.
Here are some highlights:
- 9 Best Swim Goggles for Every Kind of Swimmer (SwimSwam)
- How to Be a Mentally Tougher Swimmer (USA Swimming)
- Six Ways to Kickstart Your Motivation (Swimming World Magazine)
- Russian Twists: The Best Core Exercise for Sprint Freestylers (STACK)
- The Best Advice I’ve Ever Heard a Swim Parent Give Their Kid (LinkedIn)
- Dryland for Swimmers: 4 Key Considerations (LinkedIn)
- 7 Steps to Thinking Like an Elite Swimmer (Reach for the Wall)
- How to Balance Out Stroke Your Stroke (and Why It Matters) (SwimSwam)
- 15 Things Only Your Teammates Understand (SwimSwam)
- 5 Reasons to Make Your Mindset a Top Priority (SwimSwam)
- Try These Two Self-Talk Tips for Better Swimming (U.S. Masters Swimming)
And of course, YourSwimLog.com features over 1,100 articles and guides that will help you dominate every aspect of your swimming.
Getting in Touch
If there are any questions you may have about YourSwimLog.com or the books and products available on this site (or you just have an awesome story to tell me) you can reach out via the contact form on this page.
In the meantime, if you enjoy getting motivated and also enjoy some sarcasm, join me each week with the YourSwimBook newsletter.
You can sign up here, and of course you can unsubscribe anytime.
I’m also on most of the social media thingies:
- Twitter (@yourswimbook)
- Facebook (@yourswimbook)
- Instagram (@yourswimbook)
- Pinterest (@yourswimbook)
- LinkedIn (@lanesixpublishing)
See you at the pool,
Olivier Poirier-Leroy
