Category: Training
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Michael Klim postpones comeback after suffering neck strain
34-year-old Michael Klim was due to swim his first race in more than 4 1/2 years at a low-key Nunawading club meet at the Melbourne Sports and Aquatic Centre today, but decided to withdraw after advice from his physiotherapist a coach, because of a neck strain that he got from doing weights on a three-week…
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Improve your swimming with yoga
Waait, it might be a good idea ! According to Yahoo! Sports, a number of coaches are charging their dryland routines up with yoga and pilates, to improve body alignment, prevent injury and improve breathing. Read Yahoo! Sports. Break ton Neck from Alex Yde on Vimeo. (Not really yoga, more breakdance-yoga, but cool :-)
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Russian swim star to try out Vágur
This is surreal to me, but Russian swim star Anastasia Aksenova will arrive at the airport here on the Faroe Islands this Monday evening, to try out practice at Suðuroyar Svimjifelag in Vágur. Yup, the club of Jón Bjarnason where Pál Joensen trains. Aksenova is the Russian 100 meter freestyle record holder (53.20), and won…
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The Swim Watch Battle: FINIS Swimsense vs Swimovate Pool-Mate Pro
A must-read here on DC Rainmaker: A triathlete testing both the FINIS Swimsense and the Swimovate Pool-Mate Pro for 3 months, on occasions wearing both at once. He finds both to be very accurate, ending up identical in terms of distance/laps even after 3,000 yards. But he cannot test stroke identification, due to his triathlete-like…
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Open water swimming drills
Courtesy of www.openwaterswimming.com, kicking with a snorkel and the “hug drill”. Both of them work perfectly for pool swimmers also :-)
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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.