Year: 2020
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Tyler Christ Finds Success in the Lab Stemming From What He Does in the Pool
Senior swimmer Tyler Christ certainly has had success in the pool but on the academic side, he’s a part of cutting edge research in the College of Engineering. Lehigh Sports Central’s Cassie Schmidt has more on his story. https://youtu.be/-fo-FKYi0bU
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Swimming Tips | How to Improve Your Openwater Stroke Rate
The water movements and the flows of open water swimming, force us to adapt the swimming technique to be more effective, since wide and strong strokes are more complicated to perform. Chris Leiferman suggests some exercises to increase our stroke cadence and make more progress in open water, achieving less fatigue.
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Winter Swimming with The Wild Ones (Edinburgh)
Wardie Bay Wild Ones are wild swimmers who meet at Wardie Bay in Edinburgh to swim together. They are part of The Wild Ones – Edinburgh’s wild swimming Facebook group.
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Swimmer Strength Tech Tip: How to Foam Roll Properly
Coach Deniz explains why foam rolling is so important for swimmers, the top areas swimmers need to work on, and tips to make foam rolling more effective. Get a Swimmer Strength foam roller with the coupon code in the video. By Swimmer Strength Coach Deniz Hekmati, MS, CSCS Sweden native, Deniz Hekmati is a strength…
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How To Make Swim Training Fun | Enjoy Your Swimming Workouts Again
Swimming training is often said to be boring & dull. It is easy to see why people raise this criticism – its repetition and difficulty to socialize being just some! But this needn’t be the case, in fact, there are loads of ways to make swimming training more fun, so we thought we’d share a…
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Man finds 3,400-year-old Egyptian anchor during his morning swim
Rafi Bahalul was taking a morning swim off the shores of Atlit, Israel, when he spotted hieroglyphs in the seabed. “I saw it, kept on swimming for a few meters, then realized what I had seen and dived down to touch it,” Bahalul told Haaretz. “It was like entering an Egyptian temple at the bottom of the…
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Tokyo 2020 Olympics Hit by Coronavirus Jitters
The deadly Wuhan coronavirus outbreak could impact Japan’s preparations for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics this summer, a senior organizer has warned. The virus has infected over 28,000 people across more than 25 countries and territories, and claimed more than 560 lives — the vast majority of cases and all but two deaths in mainland China. At least 45 cases…