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SwimMom Musings: Six Ways to Embrace Your Destiny

If you wanna love the sport your whole life, it is important to embrace your own destiny. Even if you are not Rio bound, here’s how you can enjoy an amazing ride one stroke at a time.

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Physiological Proof: Promoting a Long Glide in Breaststroke Decreases Performance

How often have we seen swimmers practicing drills that promote a long glide? 1 pull, 3 second glide? 1 pull, 5 second glide?

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I Have Known Pain

I have known pain. The pain that comes from something physical but causes mental pain as well. Which is worse? Undoubtedly the mental pain.

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Shouts From The Stands: 5 Reasons To Look Forward To Dry Season

I’m not here to argue the science of alcohol’s affects on athletes, so before we go down that road I want to turn our attention to my top five reasons why swimmers should look forward to dry season.

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Derek Toomey: The Life of a Pro Swimmer (Video)

Derek Toomey, who graduated from Minnesota in 2014 and is now a professional swimmer training with The Trojan Swim Club, invites us into his training life in this GoPro video.

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Dear Swimming, I Fell in Love with You.

Dear Swimming: From the moment, I started peeling off the new goggle stickers, diving off blocks, racing 25s, imagining touching out for the gold in the Great Forum which is NJ swimming, I knew one thing was real. I fell in love with you.

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Wingate Bulldogs’ 2016 Training Trip in Altamonte Springs, FL (Video)

Watch the Wingate Bulldogs, hard at work, on their 2016 training trip to Altamonte Springs, Florida.

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Cleveland State Takes On Lyme Disease Challenge For Teammate

Cleveland State junior Maddie Tretter was diagnosed with Lyme Disease and forced to redshirt the swimming & diving season, but her Viking teammates found a way to show their support.

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Glycogen: The key to unlocking your performance

Glycogen is another name for carbohydrates. It is really just stored carbohydrates in the liver, and in your muscles. Your body only has a set amount of glycogen in storage, and when it’s depleted, you’ll feel like you’ve “hit the wall.”

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SwimJams: Eugene Godsoe Covers Drake’s “Hotline Bling”

National teamer and musician Eugene Godsoe is at it again, this time with a cover of Drake’s “Hotline Bling.”

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Protestors Fill Rio’s Streets 7 Months Before Olympic Games

Protesters opposing transportation price hikes in Brazil took to city streets last week.

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Chuck Katis Magic: Magazine To Money For The Homeless (Video)

Breaststroker Chuck Katis is an Olympic hopeful, looking to kickstart a magical run to the 2016 Rio Olympics. Luckily for him, he’s also…

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Swimming’s TopTenTweets of the Week: #2 Missy & Katie’s 1st OLY. Golds

Katie Ledecky (gold) and Missy Franklin (bronze) picked up medals in the 200 free at the 2015 World Champs; an event we could see them face off in again in the finals in Rio.

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Canisius College Golden Griffins Winter Training Trip (Video)

The Canisius College Golden Griffins recently returned from there 2016 training trip in Vero Beach, Florida. See their training trip video here.

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12 Reasons Why You Will Love SwimSwam Magazine

# 1 – SwimSwam Magazine is the opposite of every swimming magazine you have seen in the past.

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