Swimmer's Daily

Category: Dryland

  • More pull-ups = Less shoulder issues

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    Interesting post here on the Swimmers Circle, by Chris Ritter on the pull-up exercise, guidelines and variations. Especially this claim is intriguing: There’s usually a correlation to the swimmers that can do more pull-ups and those that never seem to have shoulder issues. So if you want to stay in the pool season after season…

  • Britta Steffen abandons weight-training to gain stamina

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    After having won the 50 and 100 meter freestyle crowns at both the Beijing 2008 Olympics and the Rome 2009 World Championships, Britta Steffen flopped at the Shanghai 2011 World Championships, ending up as #16 in the 100 freestyle and a no-show in the 50. In her opinion because the (supersuit era?) weight-training had hurt…

  • Ask The Dryland Coach: Getting Back Into Training

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    Some interesting exercises here, courtesy of USA Swimming & Mike Mejia, M.S., C.S.C.S.: ‘X Squat’, ‘Jumping Jack to Reverse Lunge’, ‘Bootstrappers’, ‘Thoracic Rotations’, ‘Spiderman Elevation Change’, ‘Figure 4 Bridge’, ‘Windshield Wipers’ and ‘Standing Bird Dog’.