Category: Training
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Michael Phelps is ‘the boy in the bubble’
Michael Phelps on how he sleeps in an altitude chamber. Warning: Annoying background music.
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Mellouli hard pressed by the pace of the Danes
Nice comment by the Olympic champion Oussama Mellouli on AZ Daily Sun “It’s been kind of crazy because this is the first time I’m doing triples, which is three workouts a day,” said Mellouli, who won the gold medal in the 1,500-meter freestyle for his native Tunisia at the Beijing Olympics in 2008. Even for a…
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TF1 exclusive on Laure Manaudou
In French, but the images tell their story too. Insight into Olympic champion Laure Manaudou’s life in Auburn, Alabama. Via TF1
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10-20-30 training concept improves health and performance with less training
Researchers at the University of Copenhagen have come up with a new training concept for runners that shows an increase in health and performance of up to a minute on a 5K run despite a 50% reduction in amount of training. They say that 30 minute is all you need, therefore easily adapted into a…
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Myes, maybe we should have ‘motivating robots’
Behold the Joggobot, a hovercraft that will fly about your head and motivate you to run faster. Now imagine a shark (or squid) chasing you around the pool. Would make me faster for sure. Via Popsci
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Danish swimmers on small bikes in Leadville
The Danish Olympic team going for a bike ride at 3000 meters altitude in Leadville, Colorado, judging by their faces very early in the morning. Paulus Wildeboer looking sceptical at the BMX-size bike that he got, and Bjarnason apparently giving up on the idea entirely :-)
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How not to ruin a swimming prodigy
Interesting article here on The Wall Street Journal, on how Missy Franklin’s coach Todd Schmitz has focused on fun and avoiding burnout, ever since she started training on his team at the age of 7. Many coaches with a prodigy in their stable would choose to increase her workouts to test her potential. But in…
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Canadian Olympians get a feel for world record pace
‘The Need For Speed’, a few weeks after booking their ticket to London for the 2012 Games, the Canadian Olympic Swim team reunited as a group to train in Phoenix, Arizona. SwimCANweb.tv was onsite to capture video of the team training. Via Swimmming Canada on Facebook
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Norwegian swimmers struck by strike
Returning from the Debrecen 2012 European Swimming Championships, coach Finn Zachariassen and swimmer Sindri Þór Jakobsson came to closed doors at their Bergen base, all municipality swimming pools closed because of strike. This is of course a major crisis, with Jakobsson vying for an Olympic spot at the Dutch Open in Amsterdam in two weeks.…