Swimmer's Daily

  • Brazil is home to many natural swimming pools. From sand dune pools that only exist for three months to bubbling rivers hidden deep in the jungle, these 8 swimming holes are the best in Brazil.

  • After a man drowned in Lake Pflugerville this week, one west Travis County man wants to warn swimmers about the lake.

  • The record attempt by Dennis T. Seiler-Holm (DK) will commence at 20.00 pm on Friday 25 May and finish approximately 13.07 pm Saturday 26 May at Denform Lux, Viborgvej 291, 8210 Aarhus V, Denmark. The World Record will be beaten 12.00 pm Saturday 26 May. The Record Attempt and DenForm Lux’s Expo will be open to public exhibition.

    The current World Record for non-stop swimming in a swim spa was set by Chloë McCardel (AUS) in year 2014.

    The swim spa record will meet the record breaking criteria including superlative endurance, fitness, skill level, measurable by time and able to be challenged and broken in the future as swim spas are readily available worldwide for other record attempts.

    Read more on dtsh.dk

  • On April 20, 1844, two men from North America jumped into the Bath in High Holborn, a 130-foot pool in London. They were there to show how fast they could go.

    The British Swimming Society had invited the two men, Wenishkaweabee and Sahma, Ojibwe people from Canada, to compete against each other for a silver medal. Both times that the two swimmers raced the length of the pool, Wenishkaweabee won; in the first race, he was seven feet ahead. But the contest between the two men was less significant than the speed with which they both crossed the pool, in under 30 seconds.

    Far from being wowed by this very impressive time, though, the British press found the two swimmers’ movements “grotesque.” The Ojibwe men hit the water “violently,” one paper reported, with their arms thrashing, “like the sails of a windmill,” as they “beat downward with their feet.”

    The real contest that day was not between the two swimmers, but between their style of swimming—what we now call front crawl, or freestyle—and the breaststroke favored by the British.

    Read Atlas Obscura

  • Learn how you can swim long distances underwater on one breath.
    This is 6 tips from a professional freediver

    “If you are going to try this, remember to never practice breath-holds in the pool alone”

  • Schuyler Bailar is the first openly transgender athlete to compete in any sport on an NCAA Division 1 men’s team. By 15, he was one of the nation’s top 20 15-year-old breast strokers. By 17, he set a national age group record. Now he swims for Harvard University. Schuyler’s difficult choice – to transition while potentially giving up the prospect of being an NCAA Champion – was historic and timely.

  • Many Americans consider being in shape and looking good to be an important goal, at least according to a recent survey. ReportLinker, a technology company specializing in market research, asked Americans how they perceive their personal fitness level and which exercises they prefer when trying to stay in shape. Of the respondents, 77% said being in shape and looking good were very important to them.

    The survey also provides some insight into which exercises people are most likely to engage in. Joining a fitness center ranked highest, at 40%, but basketball and swimming followed close behind, each mentioned by 35% of respondents. Jogging and yoga came next, at 34% and 21% respectively.

    Read Aquatics International and see ReportLinker

    Photo by jdlasica

  • Planning on going swimming while on vacation this summer? The CDC said on Thursday that an estimated 27,000 people were sickened, and eight died, from swimming-related disease from 2000 to 2014 in hotel pools and hot tubs.

  • FINA is pleased to launch today the FINA Learning Platform, an online tool accessible on computers and mobile devices to the entire Aquatics community, who will be able to share and learn the latest trends and techniques, but also to promote FINA disciplines worldwide.

    The main goal of the FINA Learning Platform is to provide a platform to all National Member Federations to educate coaches, officials, and administrators. FINA’s goal by the end of 2020 is to reach more than 10’000 users.

    The FINA Learning Platform will host the theoretical part of the FINA Coaches Certification Programme, as well as the update and annual exams for Technical Officials, and will continuously provide information and tips for coaches, officials, and sports medicine representatives. The Platform will also display the date and location of the courses, clinics and schools staged under FINA’s Development Programme.

    With this tool, administrators have access to training courses (private or public), and the system will be able to create specific modules for different groups, follow the users’ progress, send them notifications and give them the necessary certification.

    One of the activities that will be directly linked to the FINA Learning Platform is the FINA Coaches Certification Programme. This initiative offers the possibility to the coaches of FINA disciplines to certify their level of skills, knowledge and competence. Moreover, FINA aims at growing Aquatics by offering a continuous learning pathway for coaches, providing and setting the necessary competences to complete their certification.

    The range of FINA Certification Courses comprises the following three levels:

    • FINA Coaches Certification Course – Assistant Coach (L1)
    • FINA Coaches Certification Course – Coach (L2)
    • FINA Coaches Certification Course – Senior Coach (L3)

    Through this programme, all the participants will have access to up-to-date coaching information and best practices. This will increase the number of certified coaches and enhance the quality of the existing ones. For this specific programme, FINA has partnered with the renowned Institute of Swimming, in Great Britain.

    See FINA