Category: Training
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Coach of Mie Ø. Nielsen: “Now she’ll train”
15-year-old Danish swimming sensation Mie Ø. Nielsen has in one year gone from talent to possible candidate for an Olympic final, having posted 28 Danish junior records from March 31st 2011 to March 31st 2012, and now a 59.69 Olympic qualifying Danish and Nordic record in the women’s 100 backstroke. Her Icelandic coach Eyleifur Jóhannesson…
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Dale Oen joins Norwegian altitude camp despite of problematic shoulder
Norway’s world champion Alexander Dale Oen has been suffering from a pinched nerve and some cartilage damage to his shoulder, forcing him to stay away from hard training, and from competing at the British Trials and Debrecen 2012 Europeans. He is out of pain now when not stressing the shoulder, but suffers when doing any…
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Loughborough: Britain’s secret success factory
Scarcely anyone outside the East Midlands can point to Loughborough on a map, but if the Loughborough University were a country, with past and present students its citizens, it would have come fifth at the last Commonwealth Games – ahead of South Africa – in terms of its 44 medals won. Loughborough Swimming head coach…
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Faroese TV on Pál Joensen’s first altitude training camp
Bartal has been busy this weekend, transcribing this segment out of Kringvarp Føroya‘s sports broadcast on March 8th, 2012. On how Pál and Jón joined the Danish swim team on an 4-weeks altitude training camp in Sierra Nevada and Pretoria recently, the first ever for Pál and Jón.
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Coaches in the Know: David Marsh
Head Coach David Marsh of SwimMAC Carolina talks about maintaining a high standard of success and also recalls a memorable coaching moment from his days at Auburn. Courtesy of USA Swimming.
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Audi lane assist with Ian Thorpe
Casemovie of a promotion for the Audi lane assist in several swiss swimmtraining-camps
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Dara Torres training video courtesy of REFUEL
Great video here featuring Dara Torres, who together with five other 2012 USA Swimming team hopefuls and other prominent US athletes is backing the new REFUEL | “got chocolate milk?â„¢” campaign. You know, there is science supporting refueling with chocolate milk, and it is delicious also. Via The Sacramento Bee.
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Dara Torres battling time, pain to make record 6th Olympic team
Dara Torres who turns 45 next month is finding it slower going these days as she attempts yet another comeback in pursuit of making her sixth Olympic swim team this summer. “I am middle-aged so that makes it more difficult,†she said in a rare concession to the passage of time. “When I had this…
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Charlie Houchin 400m kick
That boy’s got an outboard motor for legs, splits 34.23 – 37.40 – 38.09 – 37.14 – 36.87 – 37.57 – 37.87 – 37.68 = 4:56.88 (pffft, no kick in the end ;-). Norway’s Gard Kvale predicts him to be 2nd behind Vanderkaay in the 400 freestyle at the US Trials. [blackbirdpie url=”https://twitter.com/#!/GardKvale/status/178333755969249280″]