17 Things Every Swimmer Does (But would never admit)

17 Things Every Swimmer Does (But would never admit)
By: Olivier Poirier-Leroy
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 cop to (peeing in the pool, is one glaring example), and a host of others that we even won’t fully admit to.
Here are 17 things that swimmers do, but would never admit to: