Swimmer's Daily

  • First Leg Day in the new home gym! Feeling strong and getting stronger by the day!

  • You can do the following stretches in the shower after a swim or workout. These stretches are slip-proof and will help stretch out your whole body.

    There are benefits to stretching in the shower too! Your muscles will be warm from the shower steam, which will allow you to get deeper into each stretch. This will help increase your flexibility and relieve more tension!

  • Must see documentary featuring exclusive footage shot during the rescue of The Wild Boars football team trapped in the Tham Luang Cave in Thailand. When everyone else had pretty much given up two divers never lost hope. This is their story.

  • Eddy Wolph tells us what it’s like being an Olympic kiddie pool swimmer.

  • Olympic Champion Sarah Sjöström on what she eats to avoid snaccidents during the quarantine.

    For more advice & home workouts specific to swimmers, visit https://sway.office.com/Km97Uxn03uslapYy

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  • According to a review out of the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, eating a plant-based diet high in foods like vegetables, fruits, and fiber can reduce the severity of asthma in some individuals, enabling them to take fewer medical treatments for the condition. On the flip side, however, the study found that eating foods that are high in saturated fat, as well as dairy, may make asthma worse and increase one’s odds of developing the condition.

    One study found asthma symptoms were less severe and medication use decreased after eating a plant-based diet for only 8 weeks; after a year, another study found, some asthma patients saw increases in their lungs’ vital capacity.

    Beyond that, one study found that removing dairy from one’s diet for 8 weeks caused a 22-percent improvement in how fast asthmatic children could exhale. Eating low amounts of fiber, high amounts of saturated fat and high levels of fat overall were found to make asthma worse.

    Read Slashgear

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    Photo by rick ligthelm

  • It’s time for Olympic athletes to stand down, relax those diet rules and dial down the training. The 2020 Tokyo Games won’t be opening in July as scheduled because of the coronavirus pandemic. Olympic officials made the announcement on Tuesday, putting everyone and everything on hold for possibly another 16 months.

    San Marino Olympic wrestler Myles Amine, a senior at the University of Michigan, had a feeling the postponement was coming before it became official. After earning a spot in the Tokyo Games by finishing fifth at the world championships last fall, Amine will have to wait another year to compete for gold.

    “I guess I kind of consider myself an optimist and try to see the best in every situation,” Amine said during an interview in the driveway of his parents’ home in Brighton, Michigan.

    Four-time Olympic gold medalist Allison Schmitt has been training to try to qualify for a fourth Olympics appearance. Schmitt says she has “mixed emotions” about the postponement decision. “Frustration, of course,” she said from Tempe, Arizona. “There’s a plan in place, and you follow that plan. And then there’s that end result. Obviously, that date has changed, those plans have changed. But as always, plans do change.”

    Cheryl Angelelli, a retired Paralympic swimmer, says she understands how athletes are feeling. “As an athlete, I can see it through the athletes’ eyes that this is a huge, huge disappointment. But I also work in health care and I see the devastating effects that this virus has had on our country,” Angelelli said.

    For most people, the new virus causes only mild or moderate symptoms, such as fever and cough. For some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it can cause more severe illness, including pneumonia. The vast majority recover.

  • I attempt to barrel roll my dad’s wave-ski on his 50th BIRTHDAY!!!! Super chill day hanging with the fam and showing Michaela how to ride the OneWheel!