Category: Training
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Magnussen targets 3 medals in London, skips high-carb food
According to The Daily Telegraph, James Magnussen is predicting not only gold-medal success for himself in the 100 meter freestyle, but also for Australia in the men’s 4×100 relay, and then a medal in the medley relay as icing on the cake. To realize this, he has restructured his diet and increased his weight-training, gained…
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Water aerobics is now a proper U.S. Marine sanctioned exercise
Water aerobics is not just for retirees and injured anymore, the Marine Crops is promoting low-impact pool running – rebranded as “water cadence” – to help even the fittest Marines up their game. (Couldn’t find a Marine Corps water cadence video, so here’s some aqua jogging)
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Syed says world-class athletes are made, not born
Matthew Syed, author of “Bounce: How Champions Are Made” and a former Olympic table tennis player, believes that an individual’s ability is secondary to the level of coaching they receive and the facilities to which they have access. Via Public Health “When I became English No. 1, I thought I must be super talented. But…
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The Race Club: George Bovell – Drills
One of the fastest men on the planet, George Bovell from Trinidad and Tobago shares some of his favorite drills for improving freestyle, courtesy of The Race Club.
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Michelle Obama vs Ellen DeGeneres in push-up contest
No spoilers here, you have to watch the video (or look it up)
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Basic lung stretching for freediving (part 1)
Maria-Teresa Solomons demonstrating the Uddiyana Bandha exercise in the video below, an abdominal tonification and purging exercise used in yoga for hundreds of years, recently adopted by freedivers to improve the elimination of air from the lungs, enabling the ribcage to flex and compress more at extreme pressures at depth. Don’t know if pool swimmers…
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Quick Minute with Cullen Jones
USA Swimming Sport Diversity Consultant Shaun Anderson catches up with Cullen Jones in between training sessions at the U.S. Training Center in Colorado Springs. Quick Minute with Olympic Gold Medalist Cullen Jones from Diversity in Aquatics on Vimeo.
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Danish camp boosting Sierra Nevada’s altitude with hypoxic tents
Rikke Møller Petersen and Lotte Friis presenting the altitude tent here, that they are supposed to sleep in together for two weeks, boosting the Sierra Nevada altitude from approximately 2500 meters (8200 feet) to about 3000 (9850 feet). Maybe (and I’m speculating here) it has something to do with stabilizing altitude also, with the perceived…