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Olivier Leroy

7 Steps for Powerful Self-Confidence for Swimmers

Looking to level up your self-confidence? Light your swimming ablaze with these tips for developing powerful self-confidence for swimmers.

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Be Ready So You Don’t Have to Get Ready

One of the most overlooked aspects of a swimmer’s training is the way that they prepare. Will you be ready to swim fast?

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8 Ways To Make This Your Best Swimming Year Yet

Here are eight ways to make this your best year yet.

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Why Swimmers Should Breathe Bilaterally at Practice

Here is how bilateral breathing can help clean up muscle imbalances, stroke errors, and even give you a tactical advantage during races.

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7 Quotes for the Struggling Swimmer

Having a hard time staying on track with your goals? Feeling like you are starting to lose direction, focus or even meaning in regards to your swimming?

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8 Questions Every Swimmer Should Ask Themselves

Olivier Poirier-Leroy has 8 questions that swimmers should ask themselves every day.

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7 Things Smart Swimmers Need to Stop Doing

Our swimming is a collection of habits, both good and bad. With that in mind, here are 7 habits that smart swimmers need to ditch.

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Misty Hyman Dethrones “Madame Butterfly” at the 2000 Sydney Games

In 2000 at the Sydney Games Misty Hyman defeated hometown favorite and world record holder to capture gold in the 200m butterfly. Here is how it went down.

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Bruce Hayes vs. The Albatross and the 800 Relay Glory of 1984

Before Lezak’s heroics in Beijing there was Bruce Hayes and his epic relay leg against the most dominant swimmer of the 1984 Olympics, West Germany’s Michael Gross.

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5 Things Most Swimmers Aren’t Ready to Do to Swim Fast

Sure, being excellent and awesome and a top athlete might look fun. But if we have spent any time around someone considered elite, we know that it requires some things that aren’t so fun, like, hard work and stuff.

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8 Michael Phelps Quotes to Get You Fired Up

Here are 8 inspirational quotes from the G.O.A.T. to get you motivated to swim your best the next time you hit the pool.

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5 Epic Swim Sets You Should Try At Least Once

Here are 5 swim sets to push, challenge and improve your swimming from some of the top swimmers and coaches in the world.

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11 Things to Remember When Taper Starts

Taper is a fun and sometimes confusing phase of swim training. One day we feel great, the next, like a waterlogged potato. Here’s what to know about tapering.

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5 Things All Swimmers Fear

Swimmers have a specific set of fears when it comes to competing. Here are 5 of them we all experience.

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12 Things Non-Swimmers Say to Swimmers

For those in our lives that don’t share our commitment to the chlorinated life it can be difficult to understand exactly what it is that we do.

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