Swimmer's Daily

  • Swimming dryland with NCAA winner and 10 times All-American swimmer Danila Novikov. Stretching cords workout for swimmers.

     

  • Coach Teag and Coach Russ talk about swimming the 500 and 1650 events. This is a must-watch for all competitive distance swimmers.

  • British Swimming has confirmed its Summer Championships have been cancelled.

    Chief executive Jack Buckner said they were left with ‘no alternative’ but to call off the event, which was due to take place at Sheffield’s Ponds Forge International Pool between 21-26 July,

    The cancellation was agreed following the latest guidelines about social distancing and with pools across the country closed in a bid to tackle the spread of coronavirus.

    With uncertainty about when those measures will be lifted, British Swimming said it was a ‘unanimous decision’ between itself, British Para-swimming and the home nations.

    British Swimming said ‘it goes without saying that the health and wellbeing of our swimming community is the priority at this time and, as such, it is not right to focus on performance swimming’.

    Jack added: “Following on from the Tokyo 2020 postponement, we have been left with no alternative but to cancel the British Summer Championships.

    “Whilst we have no clarity around when social distancing measures will be lifted, or when athletes and coaches will be able to return to what they do best, we feel this is the only appropriate course of action.

    Read swimming.org

  • Swimming South Africa has announced that all swimming events will be put on hold for the time being as the country comes to grips with the impact of the coronavirus, it has left many swimmers and coaches stressed out as preparations for the Olympic Games have had to be altered, but as Olympic coach Rocco Meiring explains, you need to adapt and be patient.

  • He’s the second-most decorated swimmer in Olympic history.

     

  • With many areas concerned about hospital capacity, now is not the time to take any risks. Tommy Caldwell, a professional rock climber, told his Instagram followers last week that he wouldn’t be climbing outside during the health crisis: “Soon taking up space in a hospital bed will amount to a death sentence for someone else.”

    Read Popular Science

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  • Melinda Harrison discusses her career as an Olympic swimmer. She also shares what athletes should do in the meantime to prepare for 2021.

    Former Olympic Swimmer Shares Tokyo 2020 Games Predictions

  • ClassPass, the fitness platform that connects gym-goers with the right studio/fitness class, has today announced that it’s dusting off its shuttered video product in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. With some tweaks. […]

    ClassPass launched a live video streaming product in March of 2018. The product was a sizable investment from the company, which set up a full broadcasting studio in Brooklyn. ClassPass Live, as it was called, also required users to have a ClassPass Live subscription, which came with a heart rate monitor for users to track their progress.

    ClassPass Live eventually shuttered as the company reorganized its priorities to focus on global expansion and its corporate program. However, thousands of workouts from that product (in both video and audio form) have remained on the app for subscribers as an on-demand workout from home option.

    Those video and audio workouts are now available for free to anyone who is signed in to the ClassPass app. For the live-streamed workouts from studio partners, ClassPass users will need to use their in-app credits to purchase those classes. That said, they do not have to be a subscriber — users can simply purchase credits a la carte in the app and use them towards classes.

    Read TechCrunch

    Why join the gym when you can join ClassPass?