Swimmer's Daily

Category: Training

  • 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…

  • Arizona State Men's Swimming Cut

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    Flash news on SwimInfo: Arizona State University has cut men’s swimming according to a press release sent out by the University.

  • Survived By Poking Great White In The Eye

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    37 year old Jason Cull saw a dark shape approaching as he swam about 80 meters off the popular Middleton beach in Western Australia on Saturday. “I just remember being dragged backwards underwater. I felt along it, I found its eye and I poked it in the eye, and that’s when it let go.” Source:…

  • Triathletes Back In Water After Shark Killed Teammate

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    16 members of the Triathlon Club of San Diego resumed open water training on Friday, a week after a great white shark killed a fellow teammate while training with the team. Read more here on SFGate Here is a news flash from when the man was killed:

  • David Blaine Breaks Breath Holding World Record

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    Endurance artist David Blaine held his breath for 17 minutes 4 seconds today on the Oprah Winfrey Show, breaking the previous mark of 16 minutes 38 second set by Peter Colat on February 10 this year.