Swimmer's Daily

  • We recap the last event of the first cluster from the FINA/airweave Swimming World Cup 2016 in Moscow. Find out more about the performance of Chad le Clos, Jeanette Ottesen, Yulia Efimova, Kantinka Hosszu and more!

  • You can do intense workouts, eat the right foods, and take the right supplements, but your muscles won’t grow without decent sleep.

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  • A WA junior surfing champion was lucky to escape serious injury after a dolphin launched out of the water and landed on him during a surf at Kalbarri.

    Incredible footage shot by 13-year-old Jed Gradisen’s father Andrew shows the moment the surfer slid off his board a split second before the creature’s nose punctured a hole in the fibreglass surfboard.

    Mr Gradisen was filming Jed and his older brother Ben three weeks ago when the close encounter happened.

    “I was paddling back out. I saw them (a group of dolphins) coming. Oh my god, they were coming straight for me, so I tried to get out of the way and it jumped straight into me,” Jed, the WA under-14 state surfing champion, said.

    “It dived out of the water and I just jumped off my board and tried to get out of the way.

    “It jumped a long way so I guess I had a couple seconds to react.

    “The dolphin landed on my shoulder and the back half of my body. The dolphin reacted, I think, really shocked — almost as shocked as I was.

    “It’s nose went straight through my board, it must have hurt a bit. It was rustling around trying to get free (from the board).

    “In my dreams I wouldn’t dream of anything like that. It was an accident, it (the dolphin) was just as amazed as I was.”

    https://youtu.be/vgFEEub6nIY

  • The Apple Watch Series 2 is waterproof — and it’s updated design will spawn a whole host of new functions and apps, including the world’s most advanced swim tracker, Swim.com.

    The Swim.com app, available now on the iOS App Store, transforms the Apple Watch Series 2 from a standard lap counter to an advanced swim tracker. On top of the basic swimming functionality that the Apple Watch Series 2 offers, users swimming with the Swim.com app will be able to record stroke count, stroke type, differentiate periods of rest from swimming, track intervals, pace, efficiency and much more.

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    “Our Swim.com engineers and developers have been working non-stop for over four years on perfecting the algorithms needed to properly track and record swim workouts,” said Davis Wuolle, President of Swim.com. “We’ve already unveiled the first and only swimming app for Android Wear and have the most popular swim app for the Pebble Smartwatch. The day has finally arrived for millions of Apple Watch users who want to track their swimming and Swim.com is uniquely positioned to provide them with the most comprehensive swim analytics experience possible.”

    Workouts recorded on the Apple Watch via the Swim.com app will automatically be synced with Swim.com, where users will be able to view in-depth information about their workouts and track their progress over time. Users will have access to this data through the bundled iOS app on their phone, the Android app and on the web.“Swim.com already has tens of thousands of users tracking their swim workouts on Pebble and Android Wear and we’ve become the clear market leader in swim apps on wearables in both user volume and functionality,” said Wuolle. “We fully expect that the introduction of the Apple Watch Series 2 will ignite an explosion of growth for the usage of swimming wearables.”

    And for users with the original Apple Watch? “As long as your Apple Watch is running the latest version of watchOS, it will run Swim.com,” said Wuolle. “We trust that users will make sure they find an appropriate waterproof case if they choose to take their Apple Watch Series 1 for a swim.”

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    Swim.com is backed by Spiraledge, Inc, a technology company focused on healthy living. Spiraledge’s other brands including SwimOutlet.com, the web’s biggest aquatics shop and a Top 300 Internet Retailer, and YogaOutlet.com, the fastest-growing online yoga shop, that was selected as a Hot 100 last year by Internet Retailer.

    To learn more about Swim.com, visit http://www.swim.com/ 

    To download Swim.com App for iOS and Apple Watch, visit https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/swim.com/id956030704  

    To stay up-to-date on Swim.com’s progress, follow Swim.com on Facebook or Twitter: http://www.facebook.com/swimdotcom, http://www.twitter.com/swimdotcom

    To download Swim.com App for Android and Android Wear, visit https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.spiraledge.swimapp

    Press release from Swim.Com

  • Albany Times Union – Sports

  • Part 1 of 4 Vlogs documenting my time with the Arena Elite swim team in Rome!

    https://youtu.be/_0osVZrwrGE

  • Former Olympic champion swimmer Florent Manaudou told AFP on Tuesday that he is taking a break from the pool to concentrate on playing handball.

    The 50m freestyle gold medallist from London 2012 said in a statement he didn’t want to take “hasty or radical decisions” but wanted to avoid continuing his swimming career “without pleasure”.

    The 25-year-old will instead train with the Aix-en-Provence handball team, although “without any ambition other than to give my best” and “find a different source of pleasure”.

    Read France 24

    https://youtu.be/ZLdiZyaP2jw

    https://youtu.be/XNDoV26YVvY

  • Yesterday, MySwimPro announced their first wearable integration with a native swimming app for Apple Watch.

    The Watch App coaches you through swim workouts set by set. It works by syncing a swim workout from the iPhone App to the Apple Watch. The iPhone app features hundreds of swim workouts organized by skill level, stroke category and workout duration.

    This workout functionality is only available on the Apple Watch Series 2 because it’s waterproof to 50m. The Apple Watch Series 1 will only display a swimmer’s profile stats.

    “We’re thrilled to launch the first swimming app for Apple Watch! This new experience one way we’re helping athletes around the world achieve their swimming goals like never before and is the first of several wearable integrations over the next few months.”
    – Fares Ksebati, Co-Founder & CEO

    The Watch App offers three experiences for swimmers to choose from: Structured Workout, Pool Swim, or Open Water Swim. Biometric data such as heart rate, distance, and pace per 100 is logged in real-time and syncs with HealthKit.

    “We’re excited to add new workout functionality to Apple Watch and leverage Apple’s existing HealthKit technology to create an experience that’s designed for swimmers, by swimmers.”
    – Adam Oxner – Co-Founder & iOS Lead

    To get the Apple Watch app, you’ll need to download or update to the latest version of the MySwimPro app for iPhone, then sync your Apple Watch with your phone.

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