Category: Training
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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…
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Paulus Wildeboer on elite swimming training
Paulus Wildeboer, national coach of Denmark, describes here to local folks in high altitude Leadville how his Olympic swimmers train. That the old myth in his view is wrong, that ‘the harder you work, the better you become’. That it instead should be ‘the better you work, the better you become’, which doesn’t necessarily mean…
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The Race Club interviews David Marsh
Gary Hall Sr discusses swimming with world renowned head coach of Mecklenburg Aquatic Club David Marsh. Among other things an interesting theory that backstrokers like Nick Thoman are more prone to hit blue lane lines than red ones.
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Speedo Fist Drill with Dave Salo and Jessica Hardy
Great explanation and footage, more to be seen on Speedo Pace Club
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Pedersen, Friis and Ottesen shooting big guns in Leadville
Danish breaststroker Rikke Møller Pedersen interviewing world champions Lotte Friis and Jeanette Ottesen at at shooting range in Leadville, Colorado. All in Danish, but who needs to understand what they saying, just look at their faces :-)