Swim 7 articles
Torso Rotation in Front Crawl: Swim Less Flat
Most triathletes swim front crawl flat, arms only. Torso rotation fixes the stroke for more power, less shoulder strain, and easier breathing.
Bilateral Breathing: Why You Need It and How to Learn It
One-sided breathing quietly slows you down and strands you on open water. Why bilateral breathing helps, and a layered drill progression to build it.
SWOLF and Swimming Economy: Where You Lose Time
SWOLF combines your time and stroke count per pool length into one number that shows where a triathlete is wasting energy in the water, and how to fix it.
How to Find Your Optimal Swimming Pace
A guide to swim pace by level, from pool splits to open water swims and triathlon race pace, plus how to plan training around it.
Deep Water Start: A Guide to the First 200 Metres
How to line up, wait upright, survive the chaos and start drafting in the first 200 metres of an open water triathlon swim.
Open Water Drafting: Save Your Legs for the Run
Drafting is legal in the swim. Learn the feet vs hip positions, how much energy each saves, and how to catch and hold a draft in a race.
Ultra Baltic Swim 2026: Kubkowski swims Sweden to Poland
Bartlomiej Kubkowski is the first person to swim the Baltic from Sweden to Poland: about 160 km in nearly 55 hours, at his fifth attempt.