Category: Science
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Study Shows Swimmers Gain An Advantage When They Recover With Chocolate Milk
Read USA Swimming Grabbing chocolate milk after a hard swim could give swimmers a performance edge, according to new research presented at one of the nation’s top sports medicine conferences – the American College of Sports Medicine’s annual conference. In a sport where seconds and even tenths of a second can make a big difference…
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Getting fish drunk doubles its swim-speed
Read The Times Of India A single zebrafish, exposed to alcohol, not only doubles its swim-speed among its “sober” peers, but also increases the speed of the whole group, a new study has found. New findings by researchers at the New York University Polytechnic School of Engineering are helping to unravel the complex interplay between…
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There’s more to chlorine than just swimming pools
Listen to Marketplace It keeps your pools clean and safe, it’s half of the compound that makes up table salt, and — in its purest form – it can kill you. And those are only three of the things chlorine can do. “There are something like 15,000 chlorine-based chemicals that are used in industry,” says the BBC’s Justin…
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David Epstein: Are athletes really getting faster, better, stronger?
See TED When you look at sporting achievements over the last decades, it seems like humans have gotten faster, better and stronger in nearly every way. Yet as David Epstein points out in this delightfully counter-intuitive talk, we might want to lay off the self-congratulation. Many factors are at play in shattering athletic records, and…
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The Scientific Secret To Swimming Faster
According to USRPT Helpful research links:http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20…http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10…http://bjsportmed.com/content/13/4/16…http://www.getcited.org/pub/103342732http://coachsci.sdsu.edu/csa/vol21/bu…http://coachsci.sdsu.edu/swim/bullets…http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/dept/coachs…http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10…http://coachsci.sdsu.edu/swim/trainin…USRPT Discussion Forums:Â http://usrpt.com/forums/
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The Morning Swim Show on Shoulder Surgery Risks
In light of the tragic news of Ian Thorpe’s infection after shoulder surgery, host Jeff Commings speaks with USA Swimming team physician Dr. Scott Rodeo about treating shoulder injuries and lowering the risk of infection.
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New research suggests 3-5 min of 30s sprints as healthy as 1 hour at moderate speed
See the research article on Hindawi A new study performed in the Faroe Islands suggests that it is as effective for cardio-vascular health to do 3-5 minutes of (effective) high-intensity swimming, as it is to swim for an hour at a more moderate pace. To test the hypothesis that high-intensity swim training improves cardiovascular health…
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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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