Category: Health
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Swimming With Dolphins Improves Your Blood Pressure
Worried about high blood pressure? Well, Flipper could have the answer.
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Author To Swim 2.4 Miles to His Book Signing
San Francisco journalist and surfer Jaimal Yogis will swim to his book event in San Francisco tonight, to talk about The Fear Project: What Our Most Primal Emotion Taught Me about Survival, Success, Surfing…and Love. You can watch the swim live online. Read GalleyCat
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Ice swimming
‘There are strong traditions for ice swimming and dousing with cold water in Russia. They are done for health benefits, as a ritual of the Orthodox Church for the feast of the Baptism of Our Lord, and for sports. Such club members are called “walruses” instead of “polar bears”‘
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Jeanette Ottesen Gray out 4-6 weeks with a broken toe
Danish 100 freestyle World Champion Jeanette Ottesen Gray is partially sidelined 4-6 weeks thanks to a broken toe, that she got from trying out martial arts. Read Sporten.dk (in Danish): – ‘This Christmas I did Jiu Jitsu as alternative training. I was up against a man whom I was actually stronger. Then he grabbed my…
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Eamon Sullivan to take year off swimming, maybe retire
Australian Olympian Eamon Sullivan says he is taking a year off competitive swimming before deciding whether he has the desire to have a crack at a fourth Games in Rio de Janeiro. Read for instance ABC Net and news.com.au
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Weird and wonderful ice swimming traditions
For most of us January is full of New Year’s resolutions and doing more exercise is usually at the top of the list. How about an icy swim that is as good for your body as for your soul? http://youtu.be/BsTLWWwVgkY
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Mary Tarwater, mother of Olympic swimmer Davis Tarwater, dies in Knoxville
A year that has been so golden for Olympian Davis Tarwater and his family is coming to a close in grief. Tarwater’s mother, Mary, 57, died early Friday after suffering cardiac arrest on Christmas Eve morning. Doctors were able to revive her heart, but Tarwater, of Knoxville, never regained consciousness. She died about 1 a.m.…
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Science says: It is okay to pee in the pool
OMG – Phelps, Lochte, Adlington et al. were right all along, via the17thman: Scientists are now confirming that Michael Phelps and Ryan Lochte’s admission that they urinate in the swimming pool is really not such a big deal after all. ‘Urine is essentially sterile so there isn’t actually anything to kill in the first place.…
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In Russia, kids are kept healthy with buckets of chilly water
Very interesting, read The Daily News of Open Water Swimming As a countermeasure to fight a rash of illnesses at her school 18 year ago, kindergarten director Olesya Osintseva in Barnaul, Russia began a voluntary daily regimen to expose her pupils to 90 seconds of fun in the snow. Judging from the overall reduction of…