Category: Training
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Swimming Tips for Training with Fins
The joy of swimming with fins for the first time will never be forgotten by any swimmer. There’s the added surface area of the fines to supercharge kicking, and the speed granted by wearing fins that makes you feel a little bit more fish-like than you already do. If there’s anything that swimmers of all…
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Why Your Brain Needs Exercise
People often consider walking and running to be activities that the body is able to perform on autopilot. But research carried out over the past decade by us and others would indicate that this folk wisdom is wrong. Instead exercise seems to be as much a cognitive activity as a physical one. In fact, this…
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How To Structure A Swim Workout | Plan Your Next Swimming Workout
So many swimmers jump in the pool and swim back and forth without a plan. If you’re looking to improve your swimming, this is certainly not the best way to train! You want to be following specific workouts, so Mark is going to be showing you how to design and structure your own swim workout!…
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How “normal people” can train like the worlds best endurance athletes | Stephen Seiler | TEDxArendal
In this talk, Dr Seiler explains in words and pictures how modern exercise physiology laboratories reveal the body’s remarkable capacity for adaptation. He also tells us about the “laboratories†developed by athletes and coaches since the start of the Cold War in the 1950s. The laboratory of the scientist and the laboratory of the coach/athlete…
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Heart rate variability: The most important health metric you aren’t tracking
Since recovery is such an important part of your overall fitness routine, HRV is one of the most helpful metrics for telling you if your body is recovered (i.e. not in a stress or sympathetic state) so you can train again. For example, maybe you’ve been working out a lot and not sleeping much — but you…
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The Making of Sun Yang
Here is what a typical half-day dryland training looked like for Sun Yang, a three-time Olympic gold medalist and sports icon in China Watch this video on YouTube How to get a handshake from a tough coach who seems never satisfied? Olympic champion Sun Yang finished everything Denis Cotterell requested today, including 6,900 m of…
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Swimming Vs Running: What Burns The Most Calories?
What do you think is the quickest way to burn calories is, swimming or running? It’s a question that we’ve wanted to answer for so long so we sent Fraser & Mark to find out! Watch this video on YouTube
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How To Use A Swim Pace Clock | Keeping Time When Swimming
The swim pace clock is designed to be used by swimmers and coaches to make structuring and measuring efforts that much easier. If you’re not familiar with this piece of equipment it can seem a little confusing! We are going to explain why it is so useful and how to make the most of it…
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How To Swim In A Hot Pool | Whiteboard Wednesday
We’ve all been there before, we show up to the pool or lake and it feels like a million degrees! In this video we’re going to share 5 tips on how you can manage swimming in hot water. Watch this video on YouTube