Next to knowing your swim times in a set like swimming 10x100's a swimmer should know his/her heart rate.  By knowing your heart rate  you will be able to know your training intensity and spot changes in your overall physical condition.  In training one should know the four cat...

I'm skimming through the book "The New Science of Swimming" by swim coach legend James Counsilman and found a couple of pages discussing "Cruise Interval".  According to the book: Cruise Interval = the fastest departure interval at which an individdual can swim 5x100 re...

In my book reading adventures I just finished reading John Jerome's "Staying With It: On becoming An Athlete" which is based on his tale of becoming an Master Swimmer.  Jerome is a crazy swimmer like myself who tries to tackle the 1500/1650.  Here is a segment from his book...

n my book reading adventures I just finished reading John Jerome's "Staying With It: On becoming An Athlete" which is based on his tale of becoming an Master Swimmer.  Since today is my 39th Birthday marking the last year in my age group I found this little bit from the book fitt...

So much is said about how "fast" the pool was in Beijing and as a swimmer I know I'm always comparing the various pools that I've swum in over the years.  Having pools that I know I do my best times in and others that I just figure can't be any worse than my local gym.�...

All things being equal who was or is the beet swimmer in the History of Swimming?  Who knows it's like comparing Apples and Oranges.  But back in 1973 swim coach Sherman Chavoor in his book "The 50-Meter Jungle" decided to help solve bar questions such as "who is the b...

I've been swimming at 6 am at the WeHo pool for the last 4 years and never have I read or heard as great of a description of swimming at 6am than a reporter's take on the Arden Hills Swim Club back in the 1960's: "It looked like something out of Dante's Inferno, or mayb a witch-...

Over the last year I learned that if I wanted to swim fast I needed to not only think about swimming but to think while swimming.  No more showing up to workout and use it as a time to burn off the alcohol vapors from the night before.  No more just swimming up and down while thinking up...

As I finished one book over the weekend it was time to start on my next book this time by swimmer Don Schollander entitled "Deep Water".  The book is out of print so check your local library also check out Schollander's Wikipedia Page LINK.  In 1963 Schollander was the firs...