Category: Training
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Temporary job opening at SuSvim
Jón Bjarnason head coach of Suðuroyar Svimjifelag is searching for a temp, see Facebook: “If you are a job seeking swim coach, or if you know someone who is, let me know. Perhaps you would like to experience the Faroe Islands for a few weeks, starting in less than 3 weeks so hurry up :-)…
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More crazy pushup (and pullup) fun from Vági
Some youngsters from Suðuroyar Svimjifelag in Vágur, Faroe Islands strutting their stuff. I don’t know how ‘perfect’ their form is at times, but they’ve sure got the energy! That last Berns vs SuSvim face-off thing is an internal joke, I think, between the director here Jón Bjarnason (head coach of SuSvim) and Berns head coach…
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Pellegrini selects Claudio Rossetto as her London 2012 coach
The Italian Swimming Federation (FIN) announced yesterday evening following a meeting between Federica Pellegrini and national swimming team coaches that her new coach will be the same as Magnini’s, and that her preparation for the London 2012 Olympics starts with a 20 day long altitude camp in Flagstaff, Arizona on January 8. After the training…
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Video: High altitude training with James Goddard
BBC’s Nick Hope feeling on his own body what high altitude training feels like. Three-times Commonwealth Games swimming champion James Goddard also comments on his chances against Ryan Lochte and Michael Phelps – ‘the two greatest swimmers of all time in my event’ – come London 2012. See BBC
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Robbie Renwick’s Olympic Diary on the Scottish Sun
Scotland’s Robbie Renwick will be writing about his preparations for the London 2012 Olympics every forthnight in The Scottish Sun, here is the first chapter. MY alarm normally goes off at quarter to five each morning. Then it’s a quick bowl of Special K or Rice Krispies and off for the start of training half…
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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,…