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Category: Training

  • NSWIS launches a world first altitude training pool cover

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    The NSW Institute of Sport (NSWIS) and Altitude Technology Solutions (ATS) today launched a revolutionary new altitude training system at the Sydney Olympic Park Aquatic Centre. The new system, a pool-based training system, is a canopy which covers two, 25 metre lanes of a swimming pool. The design includes a hypoxic system that generates an…

  • “A family that swims together stays together”

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    Super (personal) blog post by Mel Stewart here on Gold Medal Mel, on being a swim-parent. The video is his wife’s idea, to capture of their daughter ‘while she’s still a kid, still prone to dancing spontaneously, painting her face randon bright colors, playing with dolls.’ One person, a coach I love and respect, told…

  • Kirsty Coventry will train in Monaco until the Olympics

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    Interesting, Kirsty Coventry will move to Monaco in September, to train there until the Olympics, thanks to the Patronage of Princess Charlene. Do we have a new international training center developing there, thanks to a swimmer turned princess ? Via The Swimmers Circle. Thanks to the Patronage of Princess Charlene from mid Sept, I’ll be…

  • 2-year-old Caitlin clocks 9 meters in 47 seconds

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    Caitlin Morris from Stourport, England started learning to swim when she was 9 months old – 6 months before she could walk. Now she manages 9 meters in 47 seconds using a doggy-paddle style stroke, an ability that her instructor at Baba Seahorse rates as that of a 4-year-old. Here below she swims alongside big…

  • USA Swimming Deck Pass promo

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    This looks interesting, maybe USA Swimming exclusive but inspirational when it comes to giving everyone something to strive for. Nice mobile app too, see www.usaswimming.org/deckpass. USA Swimming Deck Pass Video from Gregg Goodwin on Vimeo.

  • Videos from the 2011 US World Championships Training Camp

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    SwimmingWorld has posted several interesting videos here on tv.swimmingworldmagazine.com, from the 2011 USA World Championships Training Camp in the Gold Coast Aquatic Center in Queensland, Australia. Here below it is Michael Phelps being interviewed on Media Day.

  • Graeme Moore trying out a Disney-class ice bath

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    Great picture of South Africa’s Graeme Moore, here in Roland Schoeman’s Lockerz-photos. I wonder what kind of kid gets that kind of tall and narrow pool, so yes, lets’ buy them all and make ice baths out of them :-) Who needs a $6000 ice bath when you can rock the $50 Disney version like…

  • Canada preparing for Shanghai in Singapore

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    Singapore is definitely a hotspot for world class swim training at the moment, with the national teams of Australia, Sweden, South Africa, Canada, Iceland and our own Pál Joensen from the Faroe Islands preparing there for the 14th FINA World Swimming Championships. Here is a nice video from the Canadian camp.

  • Chinese slang for swimming is “boiling dumplings”

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    In China the public swimming pools are generally too crowded for swimming, leaving ordinary people no option but to stand on the spot, “boiling dumplings” as they say. Regular schools do not have swim teams and there is no network of community swimming clubs so the majority of training and racing in Chinese pools is…