Category: Training
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Danish Olympians hope to find gold in Colorado
For the third time in less than two years, Danish national coach Paulus Wildeboer has brought his team of European swimmers back to the high elevation water of the Lake County Aquatics Center in Leadville, Colorado. “The are only pools in the world at this elevation. It’s very rare to find something like that,” Wildeboer…
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Ryk Neethling’s swimming academy robbed
Olympic gold medalist Ryk Neethling’s swimming academy in Garsfontein, Pretoria has been broken into and equipment to the value of R50,000 (6,300 USD) stolen. Read iolnews. “It is very sad to me. You try so hard to make a difference in your country. Then it is one step forward and two steps back,†Neethling told…
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CSS-test calculators added
Two calculators added under our brand new section ‘Tools‘, which hopefully in time will turn into some kind of swim tool repository. I use the very good (free) service of www.editgrid.com, which is almost ‘Excel on the web’.
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George Bovell III – Swim Part 2 – 1st Weight Session
George Bovell III is definitely back in training, recovering well from his car accident in August, as proven with this video from his first weight training session the day before yesterday. Follow him on www.georgebovellswimming.com. 1st Weights from George Bovell on Vimeo.
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A.M. Swim Workout – Kettle bell
Quillan Oak and Carter Krengel demonstrating an interesting underwater kettle bell strength/hypoxic set. I like the ‘if you want air you have to kick’, bit :-) Via swimcanoe.tumblr.com
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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…