Category: Health
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Woman swims 500 yards to toast 100th birthday
Read NewsTimes Most people likely wouldn’t want to attempt a quarter-mile swim. Then again, Margaret K. Wachs isn’t most people. On Friday, to celebrate her 100th birthday, Wachs swam 10 laps in the Woodruff Family YMCA pool. That’s 500 yards — the equivalent of five football fields, and more than a quarter mile. “I feel…
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Leisel Jones reveals ‘psychotic pursuit’ of Olympic gold came at cost of mental health
Read Business Standard and The Telegraph Former Australian Olympic gold-medallist swimmer Leisel Jones has revealed that a ‘psychotic pursuit’ of her gold medal came at the cost of her mental health. Jones is one name in a list of Australia‘s finest sportspersons suffering mentally in the pursuit of success like Ian Thorpe, Petria Thomas, Libby Trickett, Greg…
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Brett Hawke on The Morning Swim Show
Brett Hawke, the head swimming coach at Auburn, talks about a special swimming fundraiser to help raise money to treat people with multiple sclerosis. With his wife suffering from the disease, it’s a cause very close to him. He also talks about the two new coaches on deck with him, and the goals for this…
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Waterspace
“Kalev Maevali is a 57 year old from Towradgi, New South Wales, Australia. He swims almost everyday all year round because, well, he can. During an interview Kalev talks about how he interacts with the water that surrounds him and what goes through his mind during these weightless times.” Waterspace from Dylan Robinson on Vimeo.
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Speedo Advisors | How to tone your entire body using swim fitness by Karen Pickering
“How to tone your entire body using swim fitness by Karen Pickering”
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12-year-old Hong Kong swim champ regains consciousness after near drowning
Read South China Morning Post A young swimming champion has regained consciousness after nearly drowning at an annual North District swimming competition on Sunday where he had just set a new record. But he is still partly paralysed, school authorities say. […] After setting a new record in the competition’s 200-metre breaststroke, winning the 4×50-metre…
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Be The Influence – The Australian Swim Team tackling binge drinking
World Champion Christian Sprenger chats to past and present members of the Australian Swim Team on pool deck at the 2013 Australian Short Course Championships. See also this one featuring Geoff Huegill from back in 2012
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MarTar Swim School to fight childhood obesity
See CBS Baltimore September is Childhood Obesity Awareness Month. At the Mar Tar Swimming School in Elkridge, parents are looking out for their children’s health by allowing them to swim toward fitness. “A swimming pool makes your body lighter no matter what, so the weight is usually not an issue,†Girch said. In 2010, more…
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Camilla Pedersen will remain in coma for at least 10-14 days
Read Lokalavisen.dk (in Danish) An emotional triathlon national coach Michael Krüger told Lokalavisen Esbjerg Monday morning, that Camilla Pedersen is being woken up in 10 to 14 days at the earliest. There are no significant changes in her condition, which remains critical but stable. “And it may unfortunately be even longer than that. This because…