Swimmer's Daily

Category: Training

  • Sabir Muhammad writes children’s book, Born to Swim

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    World championship medalist Sabir Muhammad announces today the availability of his first book, Born to Swim, illustrated by Toni Scott Daniel. It is an autobiographical account of his fear-turned-fascination with water that led him to become a notable swimmer, which Muhammad hopes will educate parents about the importance and availability of swimming instructions, and inspire…

  • Phelps tries the altitude tents too

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    Michael Phelps was recently beaten in his signature race 200 meter butterfly, when he at the 2011 Eric Namesnik Michigan Grand Prix swam 1:57.79, behind China’s Wu Peng in 1:56.62, Poland’s Marcin CieÅ›lak in 1:57.13 and USA’s Tyler Clary in 1:57.56. Maybe therefore he now tries sleeping in an altitude tent, to see if it…

  • George Bovell uses spearfishing as cross-training

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    Right, following that Morning Swim Show interview, I had to go straight out and find that “spearfishing cross training” that they were talking about, and that George Bovell III even thinks gives him great adaptation, enjoying a weekend of diving 90 feet deep in strong current while breath-holding. Via georgebovellswimming.com. spearfishing cross training from George…

  • MSS interviews George Bovell

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    Olympic bronze medal winner George Bovell III has relocated his training base to his home of Trinidad and Tobago, working with his former coach, looking “to coach my own coach to coach me”. And then he spear-fishes as cross-training :-) “At this stage in my career, after swimming 20 years, I think I’ve pretty much…

  • The Race Club interviews Lars Frölander

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    Gary Hall Sr speaking with Swedish legend Lars Frölander here, 5 time Olympian and 2000 Sydney Games Gold Medalist in the 100 meter butterfly. At 36 years old he is swimming as fast as ever and looking strong to be on his 6th Olympic team! How does he do it? Via theraceclub.net.

  • 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…