Swimmer's Daily

Category: Training

  • Rebecca Soni feature on Trans World Sport

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    “Standing 1 meter 73 tall and weighing in at 64 kilos, Soni doesn’t have the imposing build that many modern-day swimmers possess. However, she more than makes up for that with an uncanny ability to focus when it matters.”

  • Can 10.000 hours make anyone a golf star ?

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    It is a well-known theory in sports and other fields, that it takes approximately 10.000 hours of practice to excel. But does this then also mean that anyone kan become excellent, if ‘only’ they put 10.000 hours of practice into it? American Dan McLaughlin is testing this, by practicing golf for 6 hours a day,…

  • A day in the life of Matt Grevers

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    USA Swimming and AT&T follow Matt Grevers here outside the pool, 2 times Olympic gold medallist and 1 time olympic silver medallist. From he wakes up at 5:30 AM, until sometimes after his daily nap . I’m sorry to have to say this, but that guy eats a trashy breakfast. Otherwise, very inspiring :-)

  • Coughlin: The daily grind is not glamorous

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    Inspiring blog post by Natalie Coughlin here on teamusa.org … Many people assume that the life of an athlete is a life of glamour.  Trust me, it’s not all traveling, photo shoots and parties! While I have done some amazingly glamorous things, the thousands of hours of heavily scheduled training has far outweighed them.  Without…

  • Dale Oen training in Potsdam

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    Norway’s Alexander Dale Oen is training with Germany’s Marco Koch in Potsdam, Germany this week, under the world-renowned and somewhat controversial Dirk Lange. Alex’s Facebook page: In Potsdam, training with Dirk Lange who is one if the best coaches in the world. Marco Koch is here to push me on the sets in the pool…

  • Friis and Pedersen test hypoxic tents

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    Danish swimmers Lotte Friis and Rikke Møller Pedersen are among the first Danish athletes to test the effect of hypoxic tents, as a mean to prepare for classic altitude camps, and prolong the effect of them. The Danish elite sport organization Team Danmark has criticized the use of hypoxic tents up until 2009, but has…

  • See yourself swimming!

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    Nice campaign by Swimming Canada, to get people swimming “For Fun, For Life, For Glory!”. See www.swimming.ca/seeyourselfswimming

  • Dale Oen operated so that he can train more

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    Norway’s Olympic silver medalist Alexander Dale Oen underwent a nose operation recently, in order to hopefully be freed of the 4 to 6 weeks that he usually struggles with the common cold, or at least be able to train better through these weeks. “I can of course train when I have the cold, but it…

  • 50 kick training in Michigan

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    Michigan Wolverines testing their kick speed here at the Donald B. Catham Natatorium. Wu Peng 28.0, Mark Patton 28.8. Nice.