Category: Health
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Vegetarian Athlete Tips: Olympic Swimmer Kate Ziegler
Read Stack Endurance athletes are known to be voracious eaters—especially during their peak training months (look no further than Michael Phelps’ 12,000-calorie-per-day diet ahead of the London Games). So you might be surprised to learn that Kate Ziegler, a two-time Olympian and four-time World Champion swimmer, powers her performance with fruits, veggies, whole grains and legumes. The 25-year-old…
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Grant Hackett’s former coach says team officials gave Olympian Stilnox
Read The Guardian Grant Hackett’s former coach says the Olympic swimming champion’s Stilnox addiction is the price he paid for his success in the pool. Hackett’s long-time mentor Denis Cotterell says the triple Olympic gold medallist was given the sleeping medication by team officials who didn’t tell him it was addictive until he’d been taking…
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Why swimming is good for your brain as well as your body
Read NY Daily News A small study by Howard Carter of the University of Western Australia School of Sport Science suggests that immersing the body in water to the level of the heart increases blood flow through the brain’s cerebral arteries, thus improving vascular health and cognitive function. “Studies on the positive effect of exercise…
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Swimming cat from Watford enjoys water-based physiotherapy
See Watford Observer When a Watford couple told their vet they were going to treat their cat’s broken leg with swimming lessons he “almost killed himself laughing”, however the unorthodox therapy has proved just the ticket. Ra, an Egyptian Mau, had an accident last October and fractured his left femur. The rare breed has been…
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Fibromyalgia sufferer takes on her chronic pain by training to swim the English Channel
See The Washington Post When the drugs and the doctors and the physical therapists failed her, Katie Pumphrey had one choice left: She could run from pain or confront it, curtail her lifestyle or push it as far as pain would allow. Pumphrey, a 26-year-old swim coach and painter who has been in chronic pain…
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Swimming Australia bans sleeping pills
Read news.com.au Swimming Australia is going to help every member of the national swim team sleep naturally after declaring that the use of sleeping pills, including Stilnox is now banned. SA has joined with the NRL to ban the prescription drug in a move to repair its battered image and win back the respect of…
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Star junior swimmer Daniel Smith on comeback trail after drug addiction
Read news.com.au Aged 14, Smith won eight national titles in the single greatest gold medal haul since Ian Thorpe. He was touted as the next Thorpedo and, in Miami coach Denis Cotterell’s eyes, the best trainer he’d encountered since Grant Hackett. But if Ian Thorpe can’t cope with being Ian Thorpe, how can a 14-year-old…
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Swimming Advisory Issued for Miami North Shores Beach
See NBC Miami Health officials are warning people not to swim at North Shores Beach after a strain of bacteria known to cause infections was detected in the water. The Florida Department of Health in Miami-Dade County issued a swimming advisory for the waterfront area at 73rd Street and Collins Avenue in Miami Beach after…
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Ian Thorpe remains in rehab
Read The Australian Five weeks after being admitted to rehab, swimming legend Ian Thorpe is still under specialist treatment as he battles depression. Australia’s greatest Olympian remains in a private Sydney hospital with no indication when he will be allowed out. Thorpe has also undergone a second shoulder operation in recent weeks after problems were discovered…