Category: Training
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More pushup fun from Vágur
This time Høgni Simonsen and Pál Joensen’s kid brother Eyðbjørn Joensen.
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Four young girls in Vági doing fun pushups
A fun dryland group pushup exercise demonstrated here by Suðuroyar Svimjifelag‘s Sólrun Kjærbo (12), Kristina Elin Thomsen (13), Tanja Skaalum (14) and Guðrun Mortensen (14). Guðrun holds the Faroese women’s 50 freestyle (senior) short course record of 26.04, Kristina Elin the 100 butterfly junior record of 1:05.45.
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Thorpe back in love with swimming, aims for time not medals, beyond London
Mellow talk with Olympic legend Ian Thorpe here on The Australian, in Switzerland shortly after ‘disappointing’ at the Italian Open in Riccione. Lot’s of interesting details, like that he hasn’t read anything about himself since 2000-01, that he doesn’t compete against others but himself, that he (as Cotterell) thinks he’s left his comeback a bit…
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Dave Salo the ‘breaststroke whisperer’
Interesting article here on The New York Times, about USC Trojan head Dave Salo, coach of top breaststrokers Kosuke Kitajima, Eric Shanteau, Michael Alexandrov, Rebecca Soni and Jessica Hardy. Renowned for his somewhat controversial low-milage, high-quality, technique-driven training regimen. The breaststrokers who train under Salo catch the water on their pulls in the same place,…
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Stephanie Rice suffers shoulder infection following surgery
Triple Olympic champion Stephanie Rice has had a minor setback in her recovery from shoulder surgery last week, with an infection now forcing her to miss training. Rice’s doctor ordered her to avoid training today, “Doc said it was slightly infected. Got some antibiotics and can get into xtraining again tomorrow,” Rice tweeted. Coach Michael…
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Cseh watches his loss to Phelps at the 2008 Olympics for energy
When Laszlo Cseh finds himself tired from travel or training, he cues a video of the 200-meter-butterfly final at the 2008 Olympics. Read The New York Times. “Sometimes when I go to training in the morning and I get tired or I want to sleep more and I feel I need some boost, I watch…
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Chris DeSantis on the Faroese visit in his home pool
Tomorrow’s Duel in the Pool will be held at the Georgia Tech Aquatic Center, home of the Yellow Jacket swimming and diving program, where The Swim Brief‘s Chris DeSantis is Assistant Coach. He writes here about now meeting our guys Pál Joensen and coach Jón Bjarnason, discussing among other things how many athletes one coach…
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Wu Peng eyeing “final olympics”
Earlier this month, Chinese swimmer Wu Peng declared that next year’s London Olympics will be his last time competing. 24-year-old Wu’s first Olympics were the 2004 Athens Games, where he made the finals, and now he’s intensifying his training schedule to prepare for London 2012, eager to go out strong with a medal victory. Via…
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FLA Swim Team Promo Film
This video is good! – Courtesy of Fort Lauderdale Aquatics FLA Swim Team Promo Film from Seaglass Productions on Vimeo.