Category: Health
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Are 512 pushups too many for a swimmer? A Missouri jury says no
Read The Wichita Eagle Five hundred twelve pushups. Twice. That’s 1,024 pushups. Alexandra “Ali†Swee, now a Memphis, Tenn., college student, says she was told to do them one night five years ago during a Blue Springs practice when she was a 13-year-old member of the Kansas City Blazers swim club. She contended the excessive…
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In Bangladesh, swimming pools provide lessons for life
In an effort to decrease drowning deaths, a programme in Bangladesh teaches young children to swim and surive in the water.
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Escape from Alcatraz: Gavin Maitland’s swim back to life
Gavin Maitland underwent a life-saving double lung transplant in 2008. http://youtu.be/rF8yDQ6Igcs
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Behold the Starkenberger Brewery Castle Beer Bath
Described on starkenberger.at as the first beer swimming pool in the word, the Starkenberger BierBad in Imst just outside of Munich is our chance to finally swim in warm (weak) beer, in 7 pools filled with 12,000 liters of water and 300 liters of Biergeläger. It is supposed to be good for you, just don’t drink…
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Swim Buddies Program Helps Children with Autism in Harrison County
See wboy.com For the past four weeks the YMCA in Clarksburg has held a swim class for children with autism. The children work with swim buddies who teach them the basics of swimming. The Corridor Chapter of the Autism Society of West Virginia teamed up with the YMCA to make the program possible. “We have chosen…
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Camilla Pedersen on her feet again after three weeks in coma
Good news on Jyllands-Posten (in Danish), after three long weeks in coma, Danish European Ironman champion Camilla Pedersen woke up a week ago and has now started her rehabilitation. She is able to use her body, has taken her first steps and recognizes her family, the communication improving day by day. The doctors can though…
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Susie O’Neill aka Madame Butterfly and her Fastlane Pool
“Watch two minutes of Aussie swimming royalty and her Fastlane Pool. Want to Swim at Home like Susie? Visit fastlanepools.com.au to learn more.”
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London 2012 athletes ‘had bad teeth’, in some cases affecting performance
Read BBC and see the study in the British Journal of Sports Medicine, The beaming smiles of gold-medal winners Usain Bolt, Jessica Ennis-Hill and Mo Farah are some of the defining memories of London 2012. But a team at University College London says many competitors had dental problems. “Our data and other studies suggest that, for a…
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Camilla Pedersen communicates with family after 19 days in coma
Read the good news (in Danish) on triathlon.dk European Ironman champion Camilla Pedersen has taken a big step back to life when she Sunday was taken out of the medically induced coma she has been kept in since she on September 3rd crashed on her bike and suffered a fractured skull and bleeding on the…