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How to Buy the Best Swimming Goggles

Lap swimming provides a metric ton of benefits for the exercise-enthusiast. You get a zero-gravity environment that is easy on the joints. You can mix up upper body and lower body training with ease. And with a dizzying array of workouts and sets to try, you will never get bored.

But before you go and conquer the pool, you need to start by being properly equipped to dominate the water. Besides a swim suit, which I heard is key, the next piece of swimming equipment you need when hitting lap swim is a pair of swimming goggles.

Here’s what you need to know.

3 Reasons to Train with a Monofin

One of the funnest things in the sport of swimming is developing an awesome underwater dolphin kick. It’s the closest we come to assuming the form of a dolphin or great white in the water. In order to achieve the undulation, leg fitness and flexibility that comes with a great dolphin kick, you need to train it! This means you are adding extra dolphin kicks to your push-offs and starts. This means you are strengthening your legs in the gym. It means you are spending more time on your kickboard doing butterfly kick.

The Swimmer’s Guide to Arena Carbon Racing Suits

The workouts have all been completed. You have worked your tail off in practice over the past few weeks. You crushed the race pace sets that your coach gave you. And the taper, which is often a gong-show of emotions and nerves, went exceptionally smoothly.

So you are looking at picking yourself up a new racing suit. But where to start? There are a heap of them out there, from the standard players, including Speedo, FINIS, TYR and others.

3 Reasons You Should Start Using a Workout Journal

There’s not many things more fulfilling than getting in good shape. Whether that means you are sending yourself to the Olympics, or breaking an hour for a 10k run for the first time, the feeling is the same. Simply awesome.

And no matter how grand or modest our ambitions in the gym there is one tool that can universally help in getting us there.

Here are just a few of the awesome things that start to happen when you track your workouts in a training journal.

1. You get more consistent with your workouts.

5 Reasons to Use a Workout Journal

Whether you are struggling to see the results you want at the gym, or are gearing up for a big round of training, keeping a workout journal is one of the most powerful ways out there to insure that you are getting the most of your efforts in the gym.

Here are just some of the ways that a workout journal will help you crush it at the gym this year:

1. Builds a layer of accountability.

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