Category: Training
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More pull-ups = Less shoulder issues
Interesting post here on the Swimmers Circle, by Chris Ritter on the pull-up exercise, guidelines and variations. Especially this claim is intriguing: There’s usually a correlation to the swimmers that can do more pull-ups and those that never seem to have shoulder issues. So if you want to stay in the pool season after season…
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Elite Athlete: Janet Evans
A Yahoo! Sports segment on Janet Evans’ amazing comeback. There are other videos, like her workout And her diet
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The Race Club: Secret Tip – Rangs Jr.
Gary Hall Senior shares a Race Club secret with us, to use the Rangs Jr by Finis as upper arm flotation devices supporting high elbow position, instead of the original purpose.
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Britta Steffen abandons weight-training to gain stamina
After having won the 50 and 100 meter freestyle crowns at both the Beijing 2008 Olympics and the Rome 2009 World Championships, Britta Steffen flopped at the Shanghai 2011 World Championships, ending up as #16 in the 100 freestyle and a no-show in the 50. In her opinion because the (supersuit era?) weight-training had hurt…
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Ask The Dryland Coach: Getting Back Into Training
Some interesting exercises here, courtesy of USA Swimming & Mike Mejia, M.S., C.S.C.S.: ‘X Squat’, ‘Jumping Jack to Reverse Lunge’, ‘Bootstrappers’, ‘Thoracic Rotations’, ‘Spiderman Elevation Change’, ‘Figure 4 Bridge’, ‘Windshield Wipers’ and ‘Standing Bird Dog’.
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2 clever coaches in Kastrup
Went to Korsør in Denmark last weekend, to attend the annual “Aqua Clinic“, featuring Sean Kelly this year, head coach at Stockport Metro (Keri-Anne Payne, James Goddard, (quarter Faroese) David Carry and others). He was great, tough but emphatic, thinking not only about what happens in the pool, but also about his swimmers’ and coaches’…
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Lotte Friis sprained her wrist and some fingers yesterday
Breaking news on Ekstra Bladet: Danish world champion Lotte Friis got her foot stuck during a jump over some booms yesterday, and fell so badly that she afterwards couldn’t move her hand and fingers. It took 4-5 hours to get a diagnosis, while she feared to be out for 2 months because of something broken,…
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Bovell pulls out of the Pan American Games
George Bovell III wil not represent Trinidad and Tobago at the 2011 Pan American Games in Guadalajara, Mexico next month, due to his ongoing recovery from head injuries sustained in a car crash last month. First day back from George Bovell on Vimeo. Bovell was heading to Mayaro to go spear-fishing following a training session…
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SWIM – a George Bovell III training video
You think it comes by itself ? Below the first part and intro of a multipart season long series about preparing for the upcoming 2012 Olympics. Courtesy of George Bovell III. SWIM from George Bovell on Vimeo.