Category: Training
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Wildeboer quits Danish swimming, next stop Australia
Former National Coach of Denmark Paulus Wildeboer has decided to resign also his job as head coach of the National Training Center in Copenhagen, to leave for Australia and a contract with Swimming Queensland and Australian Swimming until late 2016. The Danish Swimming Federation has been struggling with finding a replacement for him as national…
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Effortless Swimming’s Head Coach Brenton Ford Reveals the Main Reasons Swimmers Have a Bad Session
In the latest video offering from Effortless Swimming, Head Coach Brenton Ford explains that one of the main reasons swimmers have a bad training session, besides sickness and fatigue, is due to inflexibility. See PR Web.
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TODAY trains With Natalie Coughlin
The video on NBC is restricted to users in the United States and U.S. Territories, but there is this short glimpse of the action on YouTube with a somewhat more seedy description: “Natalie Morales & Natalie Coughlin working out in tight spandex shorts.”
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Wildeboer now Danish NTC coach, national coach to be named later
As mentioned in May, the Danish Swimming Federation made a new 4-year contract with national coach Paulus Wildeboer, to (on his request) be ‘only’ head coach of the National Training Center (NTC), while another person would be appointed national head coach. Yesterday, the Danish Swimming Federation announced that until there is a solution to the national…
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Woman attacked by octopus while aquabiking
A woman taking part in an aquabike lesson in Beaulieu-sur-Mer, near Nice, had a nasty surprise, when she was attacked by a reportedly “not small” octopus. It wrapped its tentacles around the woman’s legs, preventing her from continuing with the class. Nice.
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The FitWet Jet Bike combines a stationary bike and a hot tub
Welcome to the awesome jet bike revolution, where you bike in water, 30 minutes of Jet Bike equalling 2 hours of standard bike while sweating less, according to FitWet. Well, at least it keeps those bikes out of the pool. Via Gizmag
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Lotte Friis leaves Denmark to train with Muffat in Nice
According to Danish media Sporten.dk, Lotte Friis has made an arrangement with the Danish Swimming Federation to leave Denmark and the National Training Center in Copenhagen, to train with Camille Muffat and others in Nice, France. She has not decided whether she’ll train for Rio 2016 or not, in other news she’s expressed excitement for…
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Ryan Lochte: The Most Innovative Swimmer’s Workout Ever
Ryan’s workout, in and out of the pool, may well be among the toughest in the world. He explains what his 7-day-a-week regimen includes (it totals 30 to 35 hours a week), a combination of swimming and weight/strength training. Via the17thman
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Tyler McGill Leads Coaches v. Cancer Fighting Irish Swim Camp
It isn’t every day that an Olympic gold medalist is at Notre Dame. It is even more rare for an Olympic gold medalist to voluntarily journey to South Bend for a swimming clinic. But this was not your average swimming clinic and Tyler McGill is not your average Olympic gold medalist. Read more here on…