Swimmer's Daily

  • If you’ve been struggling with freestyle breathing, I’m going to break down exactly how to breathe in freestyle using proven swimming breathing technique principles that instantly improve control, rhythm, and efficiency.

    I cover simple but powerful freestyle swimming tips to help you master breathing while swimming without lifting your head, losing balance, or gasping for air. These are the same swim breathing drills I use in swim coaching to fix common swimming breathing problems fast.

    You’ll learn how to use the alligator breathing drill to build comfort and control, how bow wave swimming creates a natural pocket of air, and why proper freestyle body rotation makes breathing effortless. I also explain the ideal freestyle head position so you can stop over-rotating and start swimming smoothly.

    If you deal with swimming panic or want to know how to stop gasping swimming, I break down the importance of exhale underwater swimming and proper swimming breathing timing so your breath matches your stroke. This is especially important for swimming for beginners, but even masters swimming athletes and triathlon swimming competitors can benefit from refining their bilateral breathing and overall freestyle tips.

    By the end, you’ll understand how to connect freestyle breathing, timing, rotation, and relaxation into one smooth system that makes every stroke more efficient.

  • Elite swimming isn’t just about endurance — it’s about speed where it matters most.

  • Two groups. Two disasters. One impossible choice: Leave your partner behind or die together. From the freezing “Witch’s Cauldron” in the Pacific Northwest to a plane crash in the shark-infested Sea of Cortez, these are the incredible true stories of survivors who had to gamble everything on a desperate swim for help.

  • More than 300 swimmers are in Tupelo for Mississippi’s swimming short-course championships.

  • Cleveland instructor addresses drowning disparities through swimming lessons

  • The $61.9 aquatic recreation park would be built at the current Lewis Soccer Complex. However, there are concerns over the overall costs and location of the park.

  • A woman whose £2,000 prosthetic leg was swept out to sea has said she is “over the moon” after it was found washed up on a beach 10 months later in the UK.

    Brenda Ogden, 69, lost the custom-made titanium blade in the North Sea while posing for a photo during a swim in Bridlington, East Yorkshire, last April.

    The leg was discovered 12 miles away near Atwick, Hornsea, by fossil hunter Elizabeth Forbes, 38, who later identified it through a local Facebook group.

    Brenda, who had only owned the prosthetic for a week after waiting more than a year for it, said finding it felt like getting a part of her life back and she now hopes to return to swimming.

  • Episode 6 – Swim4TheOcean – “I’m Not On the Menu”

  • As the world’s gaze is fixed on Italy for the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics, which officially opened on February 6, another kind of winter challenge is taking place in the frozen lakes of Finland. While elite athletes compete across four major zones in Italy, winter swimmers in Helsinki are breaking the ice to plunge into frigid waters, testing the limits of human endurance.

    For enthusiasts, Sanna Mansikkamäki and Matteus Degerman from Finland, ice swimming is about more than just brings physical health – it is a source of profound self-confidence. Mansikkamäki has been swimming here for nearly 30 years and has gained much from the practice. “The most important thing about ice swimming is the connection between nature, your mind, and your body,” she says. “I sleep much better. I actually can sleep like 10 to 13 hours easily, with no waking up at all.” Six years ago, Degerman started winter swimming after a New Year’s walk with his wife, who joked, “It looks as stupid as something that you would do.” Now, as more people take up the activity, the once-quiet pier has drawn a growing crowd of winter swimmers. Lots of people are getting more involved with nature as well.