Category: Training
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Swim Team Training at Westminster College
Kyle Bruinooge dives behind the scenes and takes a look at the training work out by the women’s and men’s Westminster College Titan Swim Team. Swim Team Training PKG (Final) from WCN 24/7 on VIMEO on Vimeo.
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The Danish struck by the travel luck of Bjarnason
So, Pál Joensen is now on his first altitude camp ever, in Sierra Nevada in southern Spain, together with the Danish national team and a few other swimmers. But it was no easy trip from Copenhagen to the Sierras, as they had Pál’s coach Jón Bjarnason with them, who is notoriously unlucky when it comes…
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16-year-old Carlos Hunnicutt ‘best in 20 years’ according to his coach
Nice feature here on KVAL.com, about Carlos Hunnicutt from Springfield, Oregon, who despite of being only a 16-year-old sophomore has won the 100 butterfly state championships, now aiming for the U.S. Olympics trials and the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. “He’s willing to get up early and work hard,” said Springfield swim coach…
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Team is Missy Franklin’s priority, not prize money
We know the story, she’s given up on a lot of money in order to be able to stay NCAA eligible. According to USA Today some $130,000 in prize winnings plus three endorsement offers, while her mother has taken a year-long sabbatical to be her scheduler and media handler. But team is important to Missy…
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A conversation with Tyler Clary
National Team member and Olympic hopeful Tyler Clary shares his thoughts on challenges and dealing with pressure leading up the 2012 Olympics Trial on Omaha, Nebraska. Ouch, he dislocated his shoulder at the Duel in the Pool in December, something that ‘happens from time to time’ as he has ‘super-loose’ shoulders. Still, ouch.
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Altitude training not helping Australian elite swimmers
The Australian Institute of Sport, working with Australia’s national swim team, has just published a new study of altitude training in the Europe Journal of Applied Physiology, where they took 37 elite swimmers and divided them into three groups: Classic altitude training: three weeks in Sierra Nevada, Spain (2,320 meters) LHTL, spending at least 14…
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Thorpe & team draw out emergency plan to save his Olympic participation
Ian Thorpe has made late changes to his training regime in an effort to find form before the Olympic trials in March, following disappointing performances at the Victoria State Championships last week. He sat down with coach Gennadi Touretski, national head coach Leigh Nugent and performance science manager Bernard Savage to analyse his performance, and…
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Paulus Wildeboer on the (former) ‘laziness’ of Jeanette Ottesen
If you can survive the sections where Jeanette speaks in Danish (or even better, understand them :-), there is an interesting interview here (in English) with Paulus Wildeboer, national coach of Denmark, on how Jeanette used to be ‘lazy’, and on how she changed her attitude. What Jeanette says in return, is mostly confirmation of…
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60-year-old Blomquist logged over 500 miles in 2011
It had been 38 years since Nancy Blomquist had swum a single stroke when she picked it up again in 2007, and she couldn’t even swim one length when she started. She had always lived an active lifestyle but didn’t pick up swimming until she was almost forced to four years ago. A knee injury…