Family

Your body changes for nine months and most maternity swimwear is bought twice. A coach on fit, fabric and support — and how to choose a suit you can genuinely swim lengths in.

Most adults swim the same lengths at the same pace forever. Here are three different weekly sessions, written out, that make a week’s training work.

Most swimmers train before dawn and eat badly around it. Practical guidance on fuelling early sessions, recovering, and the post-swim hunger nobody warns you about.

Deep water aerobics is not a soft option. Used properly it is how injured runners keep their fitness and how swimmers train without load.

Every water polo skill sits on top of the eggbeater kick. A coach’s guide to building the leg base, then the pass, shot and swim.

What changes in the water when you are pregnant, which strokes to adjust, and the warning signs that mean you get out and call your doctor.