Sports such as swimming, tennis and baseball, which involve repetitive overhead arm motions, often lead to imbalances and injury within…
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Dr. Carl Payton, Reader in Biomechanics at Manchester Metropolitan University, provides an overview of his research in swimming biomechanics with…
Even though they lack fins and their bodies are gelatinous, jellyfish are some of the most energy-efficient swimmers. They achieve…
We took Costa Rican surfer Brisa Hennessy to a sports science lab to find out what makes the physique of…
If you plonked Mount Everest on the floor of this ocean, there would still be two kilometres between the summit…
In this video I test out the proposition that swimming in syrup is as easy as swimming in water. Based…
Olympic swimmers race about 0.39 seconds faster in the evening than in the morning, and as insignificant as that fraction…
‘Can’t catch my breath’, ‘tight chest’ or ‘my breathing is slowing me down’ are all things elite athletes report as…
Dr John Mullen talks about the variables and measures that we commonly reference in swimming. Often real time feedback on…