Olympic swimming champions Duncan Goodhew and Rebecca Adlington have joined forces with the British swimming sponsor British Gas and the…
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According to the Herald Sun, russian Gennadij Touretski, who guided the careers of Olympic gold medallists and world record-breakers Michael…
Researchers at McMaster University in Canada believe that the body can get as much benefit from ten short but intensive…
Belgium-based Hydrofloors enable you to reuse your pool as a dryland area, by elevating the pool floor vertically, and collapsing…
British Olympics minister Tessa Jowell announced yesterday her aim to make swimming free for all by 2012, with the over 60’s enjoying free swims by the end of this year. This to help get the nation fit without creating an extra burden on the bank balance.
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Western Australian Institute of Sport (WAIS) and the University of Western Australia can determine whether a change is beneficial without actually changing a swimmer’s technique, by inputting the 3D kinematics (body movements) of the swimmer, and then calculate the way the water moves around this 3D animation using ‘computational fluid dynamics’. This takes the ‘trial and error’ approach out of technique prescription. The video below demonstrates how they can model and measure the swimming stroke of world record holder Eamon Sullivan.
Source: ScienceNetwork WA
It is whether you use them and push their limits of endurance and strength. Build and maintain endurance by engaging in exercises that pump blood to the muscles, and strength by lifting weights, focusing on antigravity muscles (back, legs) and arms. Swimming can help with at least endurance and arm strength :-)
Source: The New York Times
Flash news on SwimInfo: Arizona State University has cut men’s swimming according to a press release sent out by the University.
37 year old Jason Cull saw a dark shape approaching as he swam about 80 meters off the popular Middleton beach in Western Australia on Saturday. “I just remember being dragged backwards underwater. I felt along it, I found its eye and I poked it in the eye, and that’s when it let go.”
Source: AFP. Photo courtesy of Spojeni
16 members of the Triathlon Club of San Diego resumed open water training on Friday, a week after a great white shark killed a fellow teammate while training with the team. Read more here on SFGate
Here is a news flash from when the man was killed: