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May was a month dedicated to training following all that fast swimming in April. Most teams were back to “the grind” focusing on their end of season meets while the swimming stars in Europe were trying to tweak their training for the European Championships.
April was a busy month with championship (or high level as per SwimSwam) meets scheduled all over the globe to provide athletes with opportunities to qualify for the postponed Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.
During the month of March in 2020, most of us were either at the beginning or already in the midst of this ongoing pandemic. One year later, many of us are still struggling and going above and beyond regular schedules to allow our athletes to train.
During the shortest month of the year, we felt the love of the swimming community with numbers in our analytics system showing a slight increase compared to the first month of the year. With some countries allowing mostly the youth to return to training, coaches seem to be searching for ideas as they move from dryland back to their pools.
Although many countries went back into partial or even full shutdown at the beginning of the new year there were also plenty of teams with the opportunity to slowly get back into a routine with more regular pool access during the ongoing pandemic.
It was a challenging year for many of us including more downs than ups and yet there have also been unexpected things that have come out of it.
December isn’t only the time of the year where we prepare to look back on our journey through 2020 – in the swimming community, it’s also the time of the year where many coaches and teams are preparing for their holiday training over Christmas and New Year’s Day.
We were very happy to start sharing daily workouts again during the month of November and see the momentum of growth continue after the sudden halt during the global lockdowns.
During the month of September things were going great for our platform! With the global pandemic slowing down in many places, teams were returning to their pools and we saw an increasing interest for workout ideas.
August should have been a very exciting month for our sport with the swimming events at the Tokyo Olympics scheduled to close on the 1st with one last final session.