Swimmer's Daily

  • TrueSport Ambassador and Olympic Swimmer, Elizabeth Beisel shares some tips and tricks for eating healthy before a competition.

    https://youtu.be/f_dSfhrcz8c

  • An unidentified 28-year-old female tourist was wading through waist-deep water off Florida’s Cocoa Beach near Cape Canaveral at about 3 p.m. on Sunday when, NBC News reports, a shark fin came up out of the water and slapped her across the face.

    https://youtu.be/_DmGxVyFdTM

  • New Zealand native and Team Speedo swimmer, Lauren Boyle, chats to us about cartoons, Hawaii and drinking too much coffee. Watch the video to find out more about the Commonwealth Games record holder and gold medallist.

  • Christie the Westie may love to swim, but Abby the Labrador has other plans. She just wants her tennis ball, which is inconveniently in the middle of the pool. So she paws a boogie board over to herself, climbs on, then paddles it toward her ball.

    See Neatorama

  • FINA is pleased to launch and share with you its new website, designed to be user-friendly and service-oriented towards the wider FINA Family and all the fans around the world.

    We warmly invite you to have a look by yourself at www.fina.org

    https://youtu.be/UNPapUuxNi8

  • The penultimate leg of the FINA/airweave Swimming World Cup 2015- in Doha (QAT) – on November 2-3 will be live streamed free of charge on FINAtv.

    Monday November 2, 2015
    Finals: 18:00 (GMT+3)

    Tuesday November 3, 2015
    Finals: 18:00 (GMT+3)

    See start lists and results here on omegatiming.com

    More details about the competition can be found at: http://bit.ly/1P5pffz

  • Eminem can help you run a lot more than “8 Mile” as a new study reveals listening to the rapper’s hits can boost athletic performance by up to 10 per cent.

    A research team from Hartpury University Centre in the UK spent three months monitoring the physiological effects of different music genres on British swimmer Ben Hooper ahead of his 3,200-kilometre swim across the Atlantic in December.

    Eminem tracks including Lose Yourself and Without Me were shown to significantly increase both power and endurance during periods of prolonged and intense exercise.

    The researchers worked to develop a “soundtrack to success” by monitoring Hooper’s output over nearly 25,000 lengths of an indoor swimming pool while he listened to different styles of music.

    Eminem’s tracks were found to have a “highly motivational edge”, improving Hooper’s perceived levels of effort. Fatigue also improved.

    He also recorded an improvement in his speed of nearly 10 per cent above average while listening to certain songs.

    Music from The Script and Swedish House Mafia also proved to be beneficial.

    On the flip side, songs by Bob Marley and other reggae artists brought no noticeable improvement in speed and required more effort from Hooper during laps.

    The Soundtrack of Success Top 10 Strong Songs for Optimum Athletic Performance:

    1. Lose Yourself – Eminem
    2. Not Afraid – Eminem
    3. Don’t You Worry Child – Swedish House Mafia
    4. Hall of Fame – The Script
    5. Remember the Name – Fort Minor
    6. Stay – Sash
    7. We Come 1 – Faithless
    8. The Day Is My Enemy – The Prodigy
    9. Without Me – Eminem
    10. Back in the U.K. – Scooter

    The Soundtrack of Success Top 10 Songs to Avoid for Optimum Athletic Performance:

    1. Three Little Birds – Bob Marley
    2. World Looking In – Morcheeba
    3. Tear Drop – Massive Attack
    4. Don’t Worry Be Happy – Bobby McFerrin
    5. Kelly Watch The Stars – Air
    6. One Love/People Get Ready – Bob Marley

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  • Christy, a West Highland White Terrier, a great swimmer and stylish diver. Check out her excitement!

    Via Neatorama

  • Two Tel Aviv residents were rushed to Ichilov’s emergency room earlier this week after a swim in one the city’s beaches left them with a serious infection in their legs and bloodstreams – which tests later revealed was caused by a type of bacteria found on fish scales. The swimmers claim they were bitten by the fish and consequentially infected.

    The incident occurred on Monday, when a 57-year-old male resident of the city was brought to the emergency room after suffering for three days, from a high fever, shivers, and intense pain in his left leg. He explained that he had been at the beach in Tel Aviv, and went in for a swim. Suddenly he felt a bite, and noticed a fish near his leg. He walked out of the water, and noticed a sharp pain, and that his leg had become red and swollen.

    In another, unconnected case, a 70-year-old woman had also been evacuated to the ER after going for a swim in the sea. She also described having felt a bite on her leg, and noticing a fish swimming away from her. Tests were conducted on the two, who had never met, and were incidentally hospitalized with the same story that, that had taken place on the same day, showed that they were suffering from a severe infection in their legs – which had entered their blood stream. The two were hospitalized in the internal medicine ward, and were receiving intravenous antibiotics.

    The bacterium causes a Phenomenon known as Vibrio vulnificus, which is found in clams and the scales of many fish. It enters the body through open wounds, or through a puncture caused by the fish scale, and seeps into the blood stream – causing widespread infection and organ failure. About 50% of infected patients die within two days.

    According to the expert’s estimates, the bacteria entered the swimmers bodies through open wounds on their feet. “It’s very rare to have fish bite people in the Mediterranean,” Dr. Dani Golani, a biologist and fish researcher at the Hebrew University told ynet. “Most Vibrio vulnificus infections are caused by incautious cleaning of fish,” he added.

    Read ynetnews.com

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