Category: Training
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Swimming: the worst job in the sporting world
Read The Sydney Morning Herald It is actually pretty amazing there is not more former Olympic swimmers snorting coke and ice and Stilnox because if there is a sport tailor-made for producing sociopaths and depressives, it has got to be swimming. Imagine spending endless hours staring at the bottom of a pool, gulping chlorinated water,…
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Olympic swimmer Elizabeth Beisel holds lessons for Grand Strand swim team
See WBTW A group of young swimmers on the Grand Strand got a chance to learn from an Olympic athlete Friday. 2012 Olympic silver medalist Elizabeth Beisel is in town for a clinic with the Myrtle Beach Riptides. WBTW-TV: News, Weather, and Sports for Florence, SC
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SwimMAC coach David Marsh’s methods are challenging traditions
Read Charlotte Observer SwimMAC Carolina head coach David Marsh follows an unconventional training path that could help change the sport of swimming. A half-century of tradition has had swimmers in the pool by 5 a.m. to swim hundreds of laps daily. But Marsh doesn’t think it’s important to spend hours in the pool each day, amassing…
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Athlete Q&A with Melani Costa
From chilling out listening to Muse to her must-do race rituals, freestyle specialist, Melani Costa, reveals a few secrets as we quiz the Spanish swimmer during our video interview.
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Allison Schmitt: Pro Athlete – And Pro Napper
Read ESPN Swim, sleep, repeat. We swim from 7 to 8:45 a.m., then do dry-land exercises or weights from 9 to 10. I go home and eat a big breakfast, take a three-hour nap, have a snack for lunch and head back for practice number two. The not-so-rigorous part. After the second practice, I come…
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SwimToday – I am an Alligator
I’m passionate. I’m dedicated. I am an alligator. See swimtoday.org http://youtu.be/jUgfoLzhVVM
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Henrik Has The Most Awesome Butterfly Four-In-Hand
Amazing, just amazing. Driver is Norway’s long distance prodigy Henrik Christiansen. Post by LRK.
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David Epstein: Are athletes really getting faster, better, stronger?
See TED When you look at sporting achievements over the last decades, it seems like humans have gotten faster, better and stronger in nearly every way. Yet as David Epstein points out in this delightfully counter-intuitive talk, we might want to lay off the self-congratulation. Many factors are at play in shattering athletic records, and…