Category: Training
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SWIM UK ADVERT 2013
“Welcome to SWIM UK one of the largest training and funding providers in aquatics, Lifesaving and First aid courses in the UK.”
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CC photo #543: Last swim of the season
School’s out, which means that there will be no more public swimming either, this side of summer. The flag half-mast is in memory of our dear old school janitor and lifeguard, who passed away this week, 74 years young. I made it a (relatively speaking) swift 1500 meter in his honor.
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Instabeat Collaboration with Athletes Without Limits
“Instabeat is happy to collaborate with Athletes Without Limits to change the way their athletes swim. Athletes Without Limits is a DC based non-profit that works with swimmers with intellectual disabilities to help them train for national and international competitions. One of the challenges their coaches face is being able to communicate the training parameters…
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Men Who Swim Trailer
See IMDB MEN WHO SWIM is a humorous and poignant look at a group of middle aged men who have found unlikely success as members of Swedens all male synchronised swimming team. What began as a weekly escape from the daily grind of work and family responsibilities, gradually evolved into a more serious commitment. Inspired…
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Christine Magnuson Gator Drill
2008 Olympic Silver medalist Christine Magnuson explains one of her favorite drills – the Gator drill! Adam Brown, two-time Olympian for England, demonstrates. Christine Magnuson Gator Drill from Fitter & Faster Swim Tour on Vimeo.
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Study shows Swimming Kids are Smarter Kids
See Swim Australia and Griffith University Griffith Institute for Educational Research, recently revealed children who had learned how to swim from a young age, reached many developmental milestones earlier than other children the same age, who had not. Some of these milestones included visual-motor skills such as cutting paper, colouring-in and drawing lines and shapes;…
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Swimming Australia National Event Camp 2013
Nice to see that they can have interesting weather too :-P
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Pál Joensen on training camp in Australia
Sigh, while we local residents of the Faroe Islands are suffering from the seasonal rain (starting in May and ending in April), Pál Joensen has travelled to […grumble…] Gold Coast, Queensland, to train under the legendary Denis Cotterell, coach of Grant Hackett and now Jordan Harrison. Pál comments from Australia: “It is going very well,…