Guest post by Jez Birds, originally posted on SwimPath
There has been much debate recently regarding principles of training, with short, high intensity intervals gaining lots of momentum as the modality of choice for fitness enthusiasts around the globe. Safe to say the debate reaches far in to the swimming world also with the publicity surrounding USRPT (Ultra Short Race Pace Training) and its scientific standing within the realms of performance enhancement. (more…)
Join Nils and Per when they get out in the archipelago in the middle of winter. It is possible to do swimrun all year round however, in the winter warmer equipment and a little more planning is required.
The last time that Michael Phelps competed in Orlando, he had yet to capture any of his record 22 Olympic medals.
He was a golden boy in waiting, so to speak.
“Two thousand and four, nationals, I just missed the 200 back world record,” Phelps said. “I think it was 1:55:12 or 15, and I was [1:]55.3. Yeah, I think I was lane three.”
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A glittering collection of the world’s greatest sports stars have been nominated for the 2016 Laureus World Sports Awards, following a ballot by the world’s media. Including Adam Peaty, Katie Ledecky, Michael Phelps and Daniel Dias.
Mark Healey might be part fish. The pro big-wave surfer can hold his breath underwater for six minutes. He once swam with a great white shark, hanging onto its dorsal fin.
And recently, the freediver got up close and personal with overfished sharks off the coast of Japan so he could tag them for scientists.
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The 24-year-old bottle blonde behind Sweden’s bikini-clad ‘grope-watch’ vigilantes has been accused of spurring fear and racism at the pool where she launched her campaign, with the manager saying staff have received a deluge of hate mail since she began last month.
Meanwhile, the Telegraph has learnt that the co-founder of the group’s Stockholm spin-off last year received a suspended prison sentence for taking part in a neo-Nazi attack on anti-racist protesters, armed with a knife.
Siri Bernhardsson and friends, who refer to themselves as the “tafsvakten” or “grope-watchâ€, started patrolling the local swimming pool in Kalmar, southeast Sweden, last month in a bid to deter migrants from molesting female bathers.
But their campaign has sparked outrage among locals and the swimming pool’s management, who say the stunt is encouraging racism towards refugees.
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A serious medical ailment has almost certainly ended Roanne Ho’s dreams of competing at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro.
But the swimmer is firmly on the road to recovery, and the mighty scare may just be the catalyst that re-ignites the spark to win more medals for Singapore.
It has now been a month since the 23-year-old was discharged from hospital after surgery and she returned to the pool two Fridays ago.
But her doctor advised her against competing in this month’s Singapore National Age Group (SNAG) Championships – the final opportunity for local swimmers to meet the required times to make the cut for the Olympics in August.
There was speculation that she would retire from competitive swimming, but Ho ended all that talk when she said yesterday: “I’m quite disappointed (that the Olympic dream is over), but I believe everything happens for a reason.
“I think I am now targeting the 2017 SEA Games.
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Hungary’s swimming legend Katinka Hosszú is the most valuable sport star of the country, according to Forbes. The World and European Championships winner swimmer star, nicknamed “Iron Ladyâ€, will feature on the top of the list published in the magazine’s March edition. This is the 25th time Forbes makes such a list about Hungarians sport icons.
Read Hungary Today
TritonWear develops wearable technology that enables better coaching – which creates superior athletes. TritonWear has developed a small, non-invasive unit that connects to the back of a swimmers goggle strap to calculate 15 key performance metrics for each athlete and sends that data to a coaches tablet in real time for every athlete in the pool. Once the workout is over, that data is uploaded to the cloud and synced with each swimmers profile to allow for tracking and analytics as never before in the sport to ensure swimmers stay on track and meet all of their goals.
See tritonwear.com
