Swimmer's Daily

  • Welcome to my “Typical Day at Home”…

    Everything I do in a full day! In this vlog I show you what I eat in the morning and the supplements I take. We go to practice and train. Then take to the ocean for a fun surf session. Have some fun with the family and do a little bit of skating before ending the day with some housekeeping!

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  • Prime Minister Shinzo Abe accepted the resignation of Olympics Minister Yoshitaka Sakurada on Wednesday.

    “Minister Sakurada offered to resign as he made comments that hurt the feelings of those in the disaster-affected areas,” Prime Minister Shinzo Abe told reporters.

    In relation to Japan’s recovery from the 2011 earthquake, tsunami and Fukushima nuclear power plant meltdown which left thousands of people dead, injured and homeless, Sakurada suggested support for a politician was more important than restoration. At a Tokyo party for Hinako Takahashi, a ruling party lawmaker, Sakurada had stated: “Takahashi is more important than restoration. Please extend your assistance.”

    In February, Sakurada had expressed disappointment at swimmer Rikako Ikee’s diagnosis of leukemia, suggesting it would dampen enthusiasm for the Olympics: “I’m really disappointed,” and added, “I’m worried that the swell [for the Games] might go down a bit.”

    Read Deutsche Welle

  • Overland Park aquatics supervisor Renee Reis remembers when cities like hers had to turn down dozens of applicants for summer lifeguards.

    It was the quintessential summer job — a way for teens and college students to earn cash, work experience and street cred in a position with both fun and responsibility.

    Not so much anymore, said Reis and staffers from other cities who have watched applicants for such summer jobs dwindle.

    “Our lifeguard positions have been getting harder and harder to fill over the years,” said Reis, who is responsible for hiring around 225 lifeguards to monitor Overland Park’s indoor and outdoor pools.

    Read The Kansas City Star

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  • Kiddies Aqua Swimming Academy

    All aspects of swimming are covered by the academy and every swimmer that goes through the hands of their highly skilled- and educated instructors can boast that he or she can swim properly whatever their swimming goals were before they started.

    www.kiddiesaqua.co.za

  • Teach a family pool safety is so comforting for a mother and father. Now this family of 6 can enjoy all water activities.

  • With the British Swimming Championships less than two weeks away, Stirling based Duncan Scott is keen to focus on the task at hand, rather than getting ahead of himself.

    With Glasgow’s Tollcross International Swimming Centre playing host to the annual showdown of Britain’s best, the Commonwealth and European champion knows he needs to swim well in Glasgow before he turns his attention to Gwangju, the South Korean city that will host the FINA World Aquatics Championships in July.

  • Grant Hackett’s most successful discipline was the 1.500m Freestyle Swimming. “The Giant from Australia” took his first gold medal in this discipline on home soil, at the FINA World Championships in Perth 1998 – and a lot more should follow. Watch how Hackett took his final Gold Medal at the 2005 Championships in Montreal!

  • So, for the new study, which was published in November in Frontiers in Physiology, researchers at the University of Guelph in Canada and other institutions set out to map the structure and function of elite swimmers’ and runners’ hearts.

    The researchers focused on world-class performers because those athletes would have been running or swimming strenuously for years, presumably exaggerating any differential effects of their training, the researchers reasoned.

    Eventually they recruited 16 national-team runners and another 16 comparable swimmers, male and female, some of them sprinters and others distance specialists.

    They asked the athletes to visit the exercise lab after not exercising for 12 hours and then, when on site, to lie quietly. They checked heart rates and blood pressures and finally examined the athletes’ hearts with echocardiograms, which show both the structure and functioning of the organ.

    It turned out, to no one’s surprise, that the athletes, whether runners or swimmers, enjoyed enviable heart health. Their heart rates hovered around 50 beats per minute, with the runners’ rates slightly lower than the swimmers’. But all of the athletes’ heart rates were much lower than is typical for sedentary people, signifying that their hearts were robust.

    The athletes also had relatively large, efficient left ventricles, their echocardiograms showed.

    But there were interesting if small differences between the swimmers and runners, the researchers found. While all of the athletes’ left ventricles filled with blood earlier than average and untwisted more quickly during each heartbeat, those desirable changes were amplified in the runners. Their ventricles filled even earlier and untwisted more emphatically than the swimmers’ hearts did.

    Read The New York Times

  • A swimming pool in the Anacostia River? An environmental study shows the idea is achievable.

    The Anacostia Waterfront Trust [AWT], DC Department of Energy and Environment [DOEE] and SmithGroup, an architectural engineering firm, all contributed to a study that assessed the feasibility of a river swimming pool project.

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