Category: Health
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Emotional Fitness: Reflection of an Olympic Swimmer | Michael Jamieson | TEDxUniversityofStrathclyde
After a career in sports which featured great achievements as well as significant challenges, Michael shares some of his career lessons with the audience. Michael recently ‘transitioned’ out of competitive swimming after 10 years as a professional. He was very privileged to compete and win medals at two Commonwealth Games, European/World Championships and the Olympic…
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Swim From The Heart 2019
Sudden Cardiac Death is one of the biggest causes of natural death worldwide for both children and adults, and Rambam Health Care Campus is trying change that. When you support Swim from the Heart, you help to raise the critical research funds that Rambam needs to fight this devastating condition. Click here to join the…
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Focused on Fitness: 88-year-old swimmer makes a splash
Focused on Fitness: 88-year-old swimmer makes a splash
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Swim England calls for health professionals to be “more proactive” in prescribing swimming
Read more at www.leisureopportunities.co.uk https://youtu.be/S-Ja-4bS_1s
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The Heart of a Swimmer vs. the Heart of a Runner
So, for the new study, which was published in November in Frontiers in Physiology, researchers at the University of Guelph in Canada and other institutions set out to map the structure and function of elite swimmers’ and runners’ hearts. The researchers focused on world-class performers because those athletes would have been running or swimming strenuously for…
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Doctors ‘should prescribe swimming to aid recovery from medical conditions’
Swim England has called for the medical profession to be more proactive in prescribing swimming as part of a programme of activity to manage a variety of medical conditions and aid recovery. As part of its latest #LoveSwimming campaign, titled Moving Medicine, Swim England has issued the plea alongside inspirational stories of how swimming has helped…
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Wanda’s Story | #LoveSwimming
Wanda was diagnosed with osteoarthritis in her early 30s and after suffering a serious back injury a few years ago, was told she would need a walking stick for the rest of her life. Determined not to let this defeat her, she followed her physio’s recommendation and started swimming. She wasn’t a confident swimmer at…
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Swimmer Beth French on Her Battle With ME and Taking on The Oceans Seven Challenge | Lorraine
Since she was a child Beth French has been in love with the idea of swimming the world’s oceans and decided to attempt to complete the Seven Oceans Challenge in a year, which would see her swim in freezing temperatures and amongst dangerous sharks. Her journey through the toughest oceans can be seen in the…
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Jacuzzi® Performance: Olympian and World Champion Freestyle Swimmer Janet Evans
I started swimming when I was about 18 months old, because my mom can’t swim. So, my parents put us in swimming. I joined a local swim team, and I was good, I wasn’t great, but I liked to win, I was very competitive, and I made it my goal to go to the Olympics.…