17 Things Every Swimmer Does (But Won’t Admit)

Conveniently-timed injuries. We have all done this at some point. Don’t even lie.

We’re a funny bunch. We dunk our heads into water for hours at a time and have staring matches with a black tiled line (usually losing). We don’t shave our bodies for months at a time, and spend thousands of hours training in order to drop tenths or hundredths of a second.

There are the things that we fully cope to (peeing in the pool, is one glaring example), and a host of others that we even won’t fully admit to.