Some of the top coaches in the sport shared their opinions on what equipment is best to use in training for sprinters.

You don't need much equipment for a basic swim session, but you can seriously improve your time and your technique with a few pieces of very specific kit It's no use just ploughing up and down the ...

Every swimmer goes through times of feeling as though practices are redundant and stale. Walking across the pool deck day after day, jumping into the same water sometimes twice a day can get boring.

Up until the 1996 Atlanta Games, swimmers typically wore suits that covered as little of their skin as necessary. Shaving one's entire body was the primary way to enhance speed through the water.