Swimming Guides

Swimming can be a complicated sport, but we try our best to make it easy to understand. That’s why we’re launching several guides over the next year.

We have our Swimming 101 guide that’ll provide everything you need to know to get started on your swimming journey. Our Open Water Swimming 101 guide that covers all the basics on how to improve, stay safe, and have fun in open water. Our freestyle, backstroke, and breaststroke stroke guides to help with your understanding of technique and training. In April 2025, we will release our butterfly swimming guide and starts/turns to follow later in the year.

We hope you find our guides helpful. If there’s anything we missed, please feel free to email publications@usmastersswimming.org. Thank you for reading.