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  • Danish kids don’t know how to swim

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    57 percent of Danish kids have never had any kind of formal swimming instructions, according to a study released by Børneulykkesfonden (Children’s Accident Foundation). The municipalities decide if swimming shall be part of the physical education in schools, but still parent expect their kids to automatically learn to swim there. Michael Aller chairman of RÃ¥det…

  • SWAT team storms swimming pool in NZ

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    Armed police gave the children a scare when they stormed the Papamoa Swimming Club lesson in Papamoa, New Zealand, apprehending the man they were after, but not before all of the people at the swimming pool were ordered to lay on the ground. Once the man was apprehended, the police took time to talk with…

  • Adlington fights to preserve swimming pools

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    Olympic swimming champions Duncan Goodhew and Rebecca Adlington have joined forces with the British swimming sponsor British Gas and the ASA to support the launch of a new website Pool Watch, to provide a potential lifeline for local communities fighting to keep their local swimming pools afloat. Swimming is the UK’s biggest participation sport, and…

  • Thorpe to sign deal with Touretski

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    According to the Herald Sun, russian Gennadij Touretski, who guided the careers of Olympic gold medallists and world record-breakers Michael Klim and Alexander Popov, is set to formally secure a new coaching deal with Ian Thorpe. Touretski coaches out of Tenero, a small town on the shores of Lake Maggiore, about an hour’s drive from…

  • 10x1min Sprint As Good As Hours Of Endurance?

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    Researchers at McMaster University in Canada believe that the body can get as much benefit from ten short but intensive bursts of exercise, as it can from hours of moderate traning. HIT or “high intensive interval training” involves running or cycling (or swimming?) at almost maximum effort for a minute and then resting for about…

  • Reuse Your Pool As A Dryland Area

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    Belgium-based Hydrofloors enable you to reuse your pool as a dryland area, by elevating the pool floor vertically, and collapsing the pool steps. The height of the pool may be elevated to any pre-selected water depth, and it even saves energy cost for heating, when fully elevated.

  • UK Swimming Free For All By 2012

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    British Olympics minister Tessa Jowell announced yesterday her aim to make swimming free for all by 2012, with the over 60’s enjoying free swims by the end of this year. This to help get the nation fit without creating an extra burden on the bank balance. Read Telegraph.co.uk

  • How Australians Use CFD To Better Swimming

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    Western Australian Institute of Sport (WAIS) and the University of Western Australia can determine whether a change is beneficial without actually changing a swimmer’s technique, by inputting the 3D kinematics (body movements) of the swimmer, and then calculate the way the water moves around this 3D animation using ‘computational fluid dynamics’. This takes the ‘trial…

  • Healthy Muscles Is Not A Matter Of Bulk

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    It is whether you use them and push their limits of endurance and strength. Build and maintain endurance by engaging in exercises that pump blood to the muscles, and strength by lifting weights, focusing on antigravity muscles (back, legs) and arms. Swimming can help with at least endurance and arm strength :-) Source: The New…