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Sport Psychology for Swimmers, Swim Coaches and Swimming Parents
Although we swim the same strokes and distances as ‘normal’ swimmers, masters swimming is very different in many ways to the Olympic sport. The differences are not technical (apart from one or two slight differences in the rules), but relate to the challenges that masters swimmers face in terms of lifestyle, ability to train and, [...]
I recently asked the members of the US Masters Swimming forum, what’s different about being a masters swimmer, and what specific challenges they have to manage compared to younger swimmers. Although it was not really a scientific study, some really interesting themes emerged, from some pretty detailed and thoughtful responses. Broadly speaking, these fell into [...]
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