Swimmer's Daily

  • 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

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  • 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

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  • 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.

    See MySwimPro

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  • Watch some of the best moments from the second event of the FINA/airweave Swimming World Cup 2016 in Berlin (Germany) including the highlights of Jeanette Ottesen, Katinka Hosszu, Chad le Clos and more.

  • Saturday 29th of October will be the inaugural date of the 1st MARNATON SwimRun Cap de Creus. A challenge that combines the two disciplines of running and swimming consecutively over a marked course comprising 18km running and 5km swimming.

    The adventure will start in the Port of Roses, either in pairs or individually, participants will cross the Cala Montjoi, go up the Cap Norfeu and end in the Paseo de Cadaqués.

    See Marnaton

  • If you were unfortunate enough to drown in London during the mid- to late 18th century, further indignities likely awaited you. A member of the public may have attempted to revive you by furiously pumping tobacco smoke into your rectum. 

    The tobacco smoke enema was one of the resuscitation techniques recommended by London’s Society for the Recovery of Persons Apparently Drowned, an organization formed in 1774 with the aim of developing and administering lifesaving first-aid to those on death’s door. At the time, resuscitation was still a new and novel concept, and the idea of touching a dead person was thoroughly unappealing to most. To encourage resuscitation attempts, the Society’s founders, doctors William Hawes and Thomas Cogan,offered cash prizes to anyone who could prove they had brought someone back to life.

    Cardiopulmonary resuscitation, or CPR, was still centuries away from common usage. Instead of pumping the chest or giving mouth-to-mouth to a drowning victim—a practice that prominent British doctor William Hunter called “vulgar” in 1776—rescuers employed a variety of other dubious methods when attempting to revive those with waterlogged lungs. Rubbing the skin, inflating the lungs via a tube inserted into the trachea, and bloodletting were among the approaches. The most creative technique, however, was rectal tobacco insufflation—piping smoke into the unconscious person’s intestines via a bellows inserted in the anus.


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