Struggling to nail your front crawl swim and think you need to put some hours in to bring your technique up to speed? Learn how to improve your front crawl technique and make the most of your time in ...

With invasive surgery sometimes being a literal pain in the ass, it's no surprise that scientists are working tirelessly to minimize the need for such procedures. Now, however, China's Harbin ...

PanARMENIAN.Net - It’s no Michael Phelps, but this tiny magnetic robot swims the front crawl at 10 micrometres per second. It would take about two months for the bot to swim the length of an Olympic ...

“You’re not comfortable with your head under the water, are you?” When you have just swum what you thought was a decent length, paying particular attention to cutting a graceful line through the water ...

When you first try front crawl, swim with all of your body close to the surface of the water, keeping your hips and legs behind your shoulders. Imagine you are trying to swim through a narrow tube ...

Increasing the power from your legs is like changing up a gear in a car, but the approach you should take depends on whether you are swimming for shorter or longer distances. Fast legs are for short ...

Welcome to Get Swimming, brought to you by The Irish Times, in association with Swim Ireland. Over the next 12 weeks, our training programme will help you to build up your swimming stamina and ...

The effect of time of day on all-out swim performances was examined. Fourteen subjects performed maximal front crawl swim tests on separate days over 100 m. and 400 m. at 5 different times of day ...

A key factor to improve swimming performance is reducing resistance that water exerts on the moving body. This resistance, known as drag, is influenced by factors including the stroke rate, swimmer's ...

Lido season is upon us (when the rain eventually stops) but the smartest swimmers aren’t watching the clock or stopping to glance at their Apple Watch. This year there’s a hi-tech approach to counting ...

Tsukuba, Japan – A research team led by the Faculty of Health and Sport Sciences at the University of Tsukuba has reviewed the hydrodynamics literature related to swimming. They identified certain ...