How You Should Approach Getting Back in the Pool sports-masters May 23, 2020 Featured, Health, Swimming 556 A perspective shift might be needed as you transition back to swimming regularly By Scott Bay It seems like with every news report, things are getting worse. That constant messaging makes it hard to see w...
How to Spend Your Time Away from the Water sports-masters March 24, 2020 Featured, Health, Swimming 501 Can’t swim right now? Try doing these things! By Terry Heggy, U.S. Masters Swimming Being denied access to water workouts feels like condemnation to the pit of despair. Yet whether it’s because of a public he...
Good Swim Today! Scott Sylvester March 10, 2020 Contributors, From the Scoob 521 Took a break for three days and although the shoulder discomfort is still there, it’s not worse. They say a bad habit is developed very rapidly and it takes about 10,000 repetitions of a singular motion to r...
Swim Swam Scott Sylvester March 6, 2020 Contributors, From the Scoob 475 So today I shaved a full minute and a half off of my swim time over the same distance swam yesterday and the day before. On Tuesday, in my new @speedo nana-nana’s I did admit that I felt slippery and faster....
Masters Swim group in Washington swims for exercise and fun sports-masters December 28, 2018 Featured, Swimming 977 By Evan Caldwell Steve Fogg hadn’t swam competitively for 50 years. That changed in November when the 68-year-old Camano Island, Washington resident joined a handful of local aquanauts in the Stanwood Caman...
The One Thing You Should Do Before Early Morning Swim Practice sports-masters October 6, 2018 Featured, Health, Swimming 1139 By Steph Saullo Many Masters swimmers spend their early-morning hours before work in the pool. Some skip a preworkout meal, others take a few minutes to gobble something when they wake up. So, which is best...
Embrace Racing in Practice sports-masters October 3, 2018 Featured, Swimming 1078 By Mark Johnston Racing in practice is an important training tool to prepare you for meets The touch pads are in and the scoreboard is lit. After our typical meet warm-up, Rich Abrahams and I are ready to r...