You could call it a stroke of swimming genius. U.S. Olympian Katie Ledecky has galloped away with two more gold medals in the 800 meter and 1,500 meter women’s freestyle swimming events at the 2024 ...

Keep reading to learn more about each stroke and how they're swam, plus which muscles are worked. This powerful stroke requires a swimmer to move up out of the water and back down in a smooth, almost ...

The specialized combat swimmer stroke (CSS), also known as the combat sidestroke, is just a modified version of the elementary sidestroke. The modified version actually mixes in a few changes that ...

Swimming is one of the best workouts to dive into (pun intended) if you want to kick up both your cardio and strength training. Thanks to the built-in resistance you get from H2O, your muscles have to ...

Dryside Training Stroke Strength Series: Freestyle By J.R. Rosania Bring it home! Those are three popular words when swimming the individual medley. After finishing three-quarters of the race, it’s ...

Learning to swim opens the doors to a number of activities, like water aerobics classes, snorkeling, and lap swimming. Not to mention, it can be a lifesaver (literally) in an accident. Yet, almost 40 ...

In what just might be the most expensive swim lesson of all time, Snoop Dogg jumped into the pool with Michael Phelps to brush up his strokes. "You see, me and MP? We go back like the backstroke," ...

"He's the reason I did that," Summer McIntosh said after breaking the 400m freestyle world record in her first of five finals at the recent Canadian swimming trials for the World Championships. Four ...

If diving’s your Olympic sport of choice, you’re in luck – Day 1 opens with the women’s synchro springboard final live on NBC. For early birds and gymnastics lovers, the men’s gymnastics qualifiers ...

Australian Paralympic swimmer Ahmed Kelly thought his quest for redemption from the Tokyo Games was over when he was briefly disqualified in the 150m medley SM3 at the 2024 Paralympic Games in Paris ...

When taking swim tests for Navy Special Warfare or special operations, you must use underwater recovery strokes. Acceptable strokes for the entrance exam are the elementary sidestroke, the ...