Mental Training

Looking to improve faster this season? Start by reflecting and learning from your swims.

Going to swim practice feeling like a struggle? Here are some proven strategies and tips to conquer today’s swim practice, even though you might not be feeling it.

Feeling stuck with your journaling? Here are some journaling prompts for swimmers to build self-awareness, confidence, and help swimmers maintain perspective over the course of the swim season.

Swimmers invest a lot of time in the water over the course of the season. The two-a-days, long swim meets, and the perpetual sogginess can

Each day at the pool, you have some decisions to make, weighing the trade-offs. Here’s how to choose faster and better swimming.

Motivation or some variation of it is by far the most common query I get from readers of my weekly newsletter. “How do I get

During my noon-hour swim today, my mind wandered back to my age group days. The swimmers I trained with. The swimmers I raced against. My

Ryan Murphy is yet another in a long line of American backstroke dynamos. Murphy, who starred at Cal, took over from legends including Naber, Rouse,

The hard work has been completed in practice. Now it’s time to put it all together on race day. Here are some proven strategies for executing under pressure.

Swimming is a physically demanding sport. The breathing, the timing of the strokes, the endless yards in the pool. The early morning swim workouts, the