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BeginnersOpen Water Swimming Anxiety: How to Stay Calm and Prevent Panic
Understand why open water triggers anxiety, how to prevent panic before a triathlon and what to do safely when fear or breathlessness begins.
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Swimming
Technique, open water, training and equipment for stronger, more confident swimming.
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Critical Swim Speed
Critical Swim Speed (CSS): Test, Formula & Training Zones
Critical Swim Speed turns a 400m and 200m test into a practical threshold pace. Learn the CSS formula, test protocol,...
Beginner
Why Do I Get Out of Breath Swimming? 8 Causes and Fixes
Discover why swimming makes you breathless and fix breath-holding, poor timing, excessive pace, sinking legs and open-water anxiety with practical...
Swimming
Freestyle Swimming Drills: 10 Drills That Actually Improve Technique
Improve freestyle body position, breathing, catch, rotation and timing with ten diagnostic drills, common-error corrections and complete pool workouts.
Beginner
How to Learn Freestyle Swimming as an Adult: Step-by-Step Guide
Learn freestyle as an adult with a step-by-step progression for water confidence, breathing, body position, kicking, catch and complete beginner...
Swimming
How to Swim Faster Freestyle: Technique, Drills and Workouts
Learn how to swim faster freestyle by reducing drag, improving the catch, refining stroke rate and using technique, threshold and...
Beginner
Swimming Workouts for Beginners: 10 Pool Sessions from 600 to 1,500m
Ten complete beginner pool workouts from 600 to 1,500 metres, plus a six-week progression, terminology guide and practical advice on...
Beginner
Common Freestyle Swimming Mistakes and How to Fix Them
Small freestyle mistakes can increase drag, disrupt breathing and make every length feel harder. Learn how to identify and correct...
Beginner
Why Do My Legs Sink When I Swim? Causes and Fixes
Sinking legs create drag and make freestyle feel much harder than it should. Learn the most common causes, how to...
Beginner
How to Breathe While Swimming Freestyle
Learn how to breathe while swimming freestyle by exhaling underwater, rotating with your body and taking a quick breath to...
Beginner
Freestyle Swimming Technique: Complete Front Crawl Guide
A complete evidence-led freestyle swimming guide covering body position, catch, breathing, kick, stroke rate, troubleshooting, drills and open-water technique.
Swim Pace Chart: 100m Splits for Every Distance
Calculate your expected swim time for sprint, Olympic, Half Ironman and Ironman distances using your pace per 100 metres.