Swimmer's Daily

Swimmer's Daily

  • Contact
  • What’s next for Olympic hopefuls after Summer Games postponed?

    Mar 27, 2020

    —

    by

    rokur
    in Competition

    Local swimmer, Phoebe Bacon, talks about 2020 games being pushed to 2021.

  • How To Train For Swimming At Home Pt. 2 | Band & Swim Chord Training Exercises

    Mar 27, 2020

    —

    by

    rokur
    in Dryland

    We can’t always get to the pool for a swim, or even the gym so improvisation is required. There are a few options when it comes to maintaining your swimming specific muscles and in this video, Heather is going to be focusing on the use of physio bands or swim cords!

  • Desperate Times | Episode #5 | Michael Andrew Vlogs

    Mar 27, 2020

    —

    by

    rokur
    in Competition, Dryland

    Moving Day for all of my Gym equipment! we prepare for quarantine by making sure I can continue to workout from home!

  • Hope swimmer on sudden end to athletic career: ‘I don’t regret really anything’

    Mar 27, 2020

    —

    by

    rokur
    in Competition

    Daniel Clyde heard it, but he couldn’t believe it.

    “I think a little bit disbelieve,” the Ann Arbor resident recalls. “I think everything accelerated so quickly with how our nation was responding to this pandemic.

  • Norfolk councillor dragged out of pool by Tenerife police after defying coronavirus restrictions

    Mar 27, 2020

    —

    by

    rokur
    in Safety, WTF

    Joanne Rust, a Labour councillor at King’s Lynn and West Norfolk Borough Council, was holidaying at the Paradise Park Hotel when she ignored pleas to exit the pool.

    The 53-year-old, who was Labour’s candidate for the North-West Norfolk parliamentary seat in December, flew to the Canary Island with her husband Marcus on Sunday, March 15 – a day after Spain declared a state of emergency.

    Hotel guests were initially permitted to continue using the facilities including swimming pools and restaurants, but could not leave the premises.

    But the following day, as restrictions tightened and guests were told to remain in their rooms, Mrs Rust defied the quarantine and began swimming in one of the pools.

    Read Eastern Daily Press

  • Out the Pool Ideas | Dryland Exercises for Swimming to Stay Active During COVID-19 [Podcast]

    Mar 26, 2020

    —

    by

    rokur
    in Competition

    With seemingly the whole world on lockdown from COVID-19, in this week’s Propulsion Swimming Podcast we discuss what forms of exercise you should be doing from your home to keep yourself in shape during this tough time. We also discuss the future plans we have for this Podcast and YouTube Channel, asking our listeners to interact and give us topics they’d like to cover.

  • Morning open water swim in Ullswater

    Mar 26, 2020

    —

    by

    rokur
    in Open Water

    I’m blessed to live next to the lake, so getting out for my daily workout isn’t too bad. I live opposite Another Place the Lake where I normally operate guided swims and Endless pool coaching from www.ullswaterswimplace.com – As well as being the swimmer in this video I even managed to film it all as well!

  • Olympics Postponed and Race Analysis | Episode #4 | Michael Andrew Vlogs

    Mar 26, 2020

    —

    by

    rokur
    in Competition, Technique

    How has my training plan changed with the Olympics being postponed to 2021??? I also walk you through my 200 IM and determine my weaknesses and how I will improve!

  • Positive Coronavirus Update from Sarah Ferguson

    Mar 26, 2020

    —

    by

    rokur
    in Open Water

    This is a Positive Coronavirus Update from Sarah Ferguson on how she is doing in Self Isolation in Durban South Africa. She shares with us how she is feeling what symptoms she has been experiencing from the Coronavirus COVID19 virus and how she is managing to stay strong and healthy.

    Sarah gives some great advice that we can all use.

    Stay safe out there during the 21-day lockdown and please please stay at home and take this seriously.

←Previous Page
1 … 1,062 1,063 1,064 1,065 1,066 … 2,877
Next Page→
rokur Avatar

Blog Admin

Rókur í Jákupsstovu // Production engineer and certified swim coach. Full-time IT guy, spare-time aquatics aficionado. 2 sons, 2 daughters, 1 grandson & a wife. Bureau Member of European Aquatics, liaison to Water Safety, Media & Data Management. Likes to run :-)

Trending

Boy, 5, Drowns in Neighbor's Pool After Being Left Unsupervised Outside His Home: Police | PeopleApril 3, 2026
Woman Saves Struggling Swimmer, Then Learns He’s a Double Murder Suspect | Local 12April 8, 2026
New Classification Changes Everything for These Swimmers | A Current AffairApril 5, 2026
Heidi Klum saves her son from drowningHeidi Klum saves her son from drowningApril 2, 2013
YMCA Hosts Swimming Easter Egg Hunt | KWQC NewsApril 5, 2026

Categories

  • Adapted Swimming (100)
  • Artistic Swimming (239)
  • Baby Swimming (6)
  • Beach Life (289)
  • Can you do this? (38)
  • CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 (697)
  • Charity (201)
  • Cliff Jumping (3)
  • Cold Water Swimming (2)
  • Competition (8,583)
  • Crime (280)
  • Diversity (21)
  • Diving (245)
  • Doping (355)
  • Dryland (398)
  • Entertainment (18)
  • Environment (353)
  • Equipment (525)
  • Faroe Islands (352)
  • Finswimming (2)
  • Freediving (426)
  • Fun (1,952)
  • Gossip (715)
  • Guest Post (115)
  • Health (1,217)
  • High Diving (61)
  • History (509)
  • Ice Swimming (26)
  • Inclusion (5)
  • Learn To Swim (335)
  • Life Saving (42)
  • Masters (119)
  • Mental Health (57)
  • Miscellaneous (1)
  • Nature (2,045)
  • Notice (4)
  • Nutrition (40)
  • Open Water (2,494)
  • Organization (3,252)
  • Other (7)
  • Ouch (6)
  • Para Swimming (289)
  • Politics (2)
  • Psychology (93)
  • Review (5)
  • Safeguarding (5)
  • Safety (3,699)
  • Science (247)
  • Scuba Diving (13)
  • Sea Swimming (13)
  • Sex Crime (1)
  • Special Olympics (13)
  • Sponsored Post (44)
  • Surfing (45)
  • Swimmer's Daily (49)
  • Swimming Pools (898)
  • Swimrun (15)
  • Synchronized Swimming (57)
  • Technique (653)
  • Technology (585)
  • Training (959)
  • Triathlon (189)
  • Uncategorized (59)
  • Water Parks (1)
  • Water Polo (174)
  • Wild Swimming (120)
  • Winter Swimming (454)
  • World Record (151)
  • Wow (788)
  • WTF (504)

Aquatics Sites

  • World Aquatics
  • European Aquatics
  • SwimmingWorld
  • SwimSwam
  • Swimrankings

Search This Site


See also

  • Facebook
  • X
  • YouTube
Swimmer's Daily

Swimmer's Daily

Fast Fix Blog About Swimming

c/o Rókur í Jákupsstovu
Brekkuvegur 10, FO-650 Toftir
Faroe Islands

Privacy

  • Privacy Policy
  • Background
  • Contact
Manage Consent
To provide the best experiences, we use technologies like cookies to store and/or access device information. Consenting to these technologies will allow us to process data such as browsing behavior or unique IDs on this site. Not consenting or withdrawing consent, may adversely affect certain features and functions.
Functional Always active
The technical storage or access is strictly necessary for the legitimate purpose of enabling the use of a specific service explicitly requested by the subscriber or user, or for the sole purpose of carrying out the transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network.
Preferences
The technical storage or access is necessary for the legitimate purpose of storing preferences that are not requested by the subscriber or user.
Statistics
The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for statistical purposes. The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for anonymous statistical purposes. Without a subpoena, voluntary compliance on the part of your Internet Service Provider, or additional records from a third party, information stored or retrieved for this purpose alone cannot usually be used to identify you.
Marketing
The technical storage or access is required to create user profiles to send advertising, or to track the user on a website or across several websites for similar marketing purposes.
  • Manage options
  • Manage services
  • Manage {vendor_count} vendors
  • Read more about these purposes
View preferences
  • {title}
  • {title}
  • {title}