Category: Training
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Chloe Sutton: How to make swim practice fun
Great blog post here on Universal Sports by Chloe Sutton: Coach Rose is very smart and sneaky. He will give us a really hard and seemingly long set, but make it so that if we go really fast, we get out of some of it. One of those sets might be 30×100 on 1:30. He’ll…
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British Olympians in Flagstaff
Story by Brandon Kamerman, featuring British Swimmer Jak Scott and British Swimming Head Coach Dennis Pursley. Olympians in Flagstaff from Brandon Kamerman on Vimeo.
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Nooo, Rebecca Adlington pees in the pool (!)
Can’t believe it, but she’s being quoted and everything: “We all pee in the pool, it’s not a big deal. We don’t have time to get out and go to the toilet, it’s a standard swimmer thing. “You can’t get out in between training, or it breaks up the set.†Read The Daily Star.
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The Race Club: Underwater Pull Series – Lift
Part 2 of the Race Club‘s 4 part series analysing the underwater pull. This time about why lift is important and how long we typically spend in the “lift phase†for both hip and shoulder driven freestyle.
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49-year-old former model Phyllis Reffo makes college swim team
Damn, she’s hot, and she only picked up swimming 6 years ago. Pepperdine University has a new fan ! Via Gold Medal Mel.
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USA Swimming launches Deck Pass
We’ve heard about it before, and now it is officially launced. USA Swimming’s Deck Pass, a new online and mobile application that lets swimmers track their best times, set goals and earn digital patches, share milestones with friends and family on Facebook, engage with USA Swimming, and that works as a tool for coaches too.…
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Adlington makes a splash with 4-year-old Tae Smith
We heard about 4-year-old Tae Smith in July, who after only five months managed to take not only the planned 600 meters distance badge, but carried on until she was persuaded to stop at 2000 meters. Here is a British Gas Big Dip video with her and Olympic champion Rebecca Adlington. Via the17thman
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Interviewing Dr Homayun Gharavi – Part 2
So, after a quick change of camera (and Home-made solution to secure the additional camera to the incompatible tripod by using packaging from the recently bought batteries), we go on about Home’s visit to the Faroe Islands, digging deeper into the project of Pál Joensen and Jón Bjarnason in Suðuroy. I ask what Dr. Gharavi…
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Interviewing Dr Homayun Gharavi – Part 1
This last week we had Dr Homayun Gharavi MD PhD PhD visiting Pál Joensen and Jón Bjarnason in their home pool in Vágur, Suðuroy, Faroe Islands, where he did intensive work with Pál and also conducted quite a few dryland sessions for him, his club and some visitors. This is a big shot double-PhD medical…