Try these tips to keep a proper head position in the water. This will help your overall body position and can ultimately make you a faster swimmer.
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Swimming Safari Swim School: When should kids start swimming lessons?
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Swim Lessons: “It Could Save a Life.â€
After her son August nearly drowned while on vacation, Casey signed him up for swimming lessons at the Y. Watch as this brave six-year-old jumps, floats, and swims his way through the water after learning important water safety concepts! This is their Y. Their Camera. Their Story.
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Float to Live
Everyone who falls into cold water unexpectedly wants to follow the same instinct: to swim hard and fight the water. But when you fight it, the chances are, you’ll lose. Instead you need to stay calm and #FloatToLive.
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Our family swimming journey so far – learning to swim
We’re working with Swim England this year and talking about swimming as a family, the highs, lows, hurdles and achievements that come with learning to swim.
https://youtu.be/d6l5f9znk8g
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Online therapy firm teams up with Michael Phelps to break the stigma of mental illness
The Olympic gold medalist swimmer is the new face of Talkspace, a startup that makes therapy affordable and accessible to millions of people.
On the surface, Michael Phelps had the kind of life we could only dream of. As the most decorated swimmerin history, the Baltimore native had 28 Olympic medals to his name before he even turned 30. He’d broken basically every world record in swimming ever recorded, and in four Olympic games, he reigned as the most successful athlete to compete.
But the side of Phelps most people never saw – and one he had tried mightily to conceal – was his struggle with mental illness. In January, the 32-year-old revealed that he suffered from both ADHD and depression, and that after the 2012 Olympics, he actually contemplated suicide.
“Throughout my career, I struggled with depression and anxiety at various times, and I found it so difficult to get the help I needed,” said Phelps.
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2-Year-Old Scales Locked Swimming Pool Fence and Unlocks Safety Gate
Summer is here and unexpected accidents can happen in a flash by the pool while everyone enjoys the warm weather. Video shows a 2-year-old boy named Cody scaling a locked safety ladder that his folks installed, which leads right to the family pool. In the video, he got right to the top of the ladder, but his mom came right in to make sure he didn’t go taking a dive alone. Keith Wyman is Cody’s dad and couldn’t believe what he saw.
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What grinds your coaches gears?
As we get ready for Pan Pac Trials we chat to #OurTeam about what gets on their coaches nerves.
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3 Dead After Late Night Swim At Durham Apartment Complex Pool
A total of four people were swimming when three of them were pulled from the pool at Chapel Tower Apartments, police said.
Three people are dead after they were pulled from a pool at an apartment complex in Durham early Tuesday.
A total of four people were swimming when three of them were pulled from the pool at Chapel Tower Apartments, police said.
Authorities received the call shortly after 3 a.m. and arriving units found two males and a female submerged in the water, police said.
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