Swimmer's Daily

  • The Sports Performance Training program at The Chatham Club is a one-stop-shop for all student-athletes in the Northern NJ area. Take a moment to watch SPT Program Director, Robbie Arnold break down freestyle cable pulls and overhead throwers – 2 great moves that are specifically for swimmers to increase back & shoulder strength.

  • Every day is hump day in Gujarat, India. The rural area is famous for its swimming camels. How did these desert creatures get a taste for the sea? It’s the only way they can reach the mangroves where they feed. These Kharai camels—as they’re known—can actually swim nearly two miles in seawater. Jat Noor Mohammed’s family has been breeding and caring for these animals for generations. But, as new industries and climate change begin to destroy the mangroves that sustain these camels, his livelihood is under threat.

  • The BioOx air cleaning system has been revolutionizing the air quality at indoor swimming pools across the country for close to two years. Using a patented biotechnology, freestanding BioOx units are able to attract the harmful particles that are so common in pool air and destroy them using 100 percent natural enzymes. It’s a simple process – kind of like a magnet attracting metal – that has allowed swimmers, coaches and parents to experience healthier, more breathable air at their facilities.

     

  • As much fun as the water is, it can be equally as dangerous.

    Drowning is a leading cause of unintentional deaths in the United States, but the good news is that it’s preventable.

    Dan Jones is the head of Norfolk Aquatics and Beaches. He says a big issue is that people don’t take the right precautions because they believe they’re good swimmers.

    “No matter who you are, swim with a partner, swim with a buddy. Don’t overestimate your swimming ability. Swim near a lifeguard, never swim at night,” says Jones.

    He says it’s up to parents to make sure they are keeping a watchful eye on children at all times and not distracted with cellphones or drinking.

    The parent will say ‘yeah my child swims every day,’ ‘well can your child swim in water over their head?’ and they say ‘no, they can’t swim in water over their head’ and we say, ‘well your child can’t swim, your child is wading in the water.’”

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  • Watch behind the scene to experience a Swimmer Strength camp where the strength training becomes an integral part of swim training.

  • Taiwanese swimmer Wang Hsing-hao (王星皓) on Sunday won a gold medal in the men’s 200-meter individual medley at the Hong Kong Open Swimming Championships with a time that guaranteed him a place in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.

    He won the race with a time of 1 minute 59.44 seconds, good enough to beat the “A” qualifying standard for the 2020 Olympics in the 200-meter individual medley of 1:59.67.

    Read Taiwan News

  • Americans are moving less and sitting more — in our cars, at our desks, and on the couch.

    We’re more sedentary than our parents and grandparents ever were, and it’s wreaking havoc on our health: Obesity is epidemic, type 2 diabetes is a major health concern, and more than 100 million Americans have high blood pressure.

    Marathon swimmer Diana Nyad wants to change that by getting us up — and walking.

    Nyad, who in 2013 became an international sensation when she swam 110 miles from Havana, Cuba, to Key West, Fla., has created an organization called EverWalk with her longtime friend and trainer, Bonnie Stoll. Its mission is as audacious as Nyad’s long-ago swim at age 64:

    “We are trying to develop a nation of 100 million walkers,” said Nyad, now 69.

    Those who want to join the EverWalk movement need only pledge to walk three times a week. The walks can be solo, with friends, or with small EverWalk groups whose 9,000 active members are organized regionally via the EverWalk website.

    Participants can also pay a fee to take part in EverWalk’s large, days-long mega treks like the one Nyad will lead from Philadelphia to Washington starting on Aug. 26. Dubbed “The Liberty Walk,” the 134-mile journey will take seven days and cover about 20 miles a day.

    “We have people who have never done anything like this in their lives,” Nyad said. “Now they’re the athletes.”

    Read The Philadelphia Inquirer