Swimmer's Daily

  • Filmed and edited by AJ Aguirre and Ben Hamner

  • Follow Olympians in this 20 minute vinyasa yoga for swimmers focusing on core exercise. At the Race Club we find the benefits of yoga to strengthen and lengthen muscles, help improve recovery and nutrition giving an Athlete and advantage in competing at a top level and prevent injury from occurring. In this core exercise video we have incorporated traditional Vinyasa Yoga with some of our favorite core exercises that seamlessly blend into this intense and rewarding Yoga for Swimmers sequence.

    Courtesy of The Race Club

  • Watch as a 3-D chalk drawing comes to life in Chicago’s Pioneer Court to mark the USA Swimming Foundation’s Make A Splash Tour Presented by Phillips 66. For more information on the importance of swimming lessons, visit http://www.makeasplash.org.

  • By Susan Woessner

    The formality of communications with today’s youth has all but disappeared with texting and pervasive social media channels such as Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat and Instagram. Even email is becoming outdated with young people.

    But when it comes to interactions between adults and children, etiquette, boundaries and safe behaviors are still important. At USA Swimming, through our Safe Sport program, we require all of our swim clubs to adopt an electronic communications policy.

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    The goal of the policy and Safe Sport, established in 2010 under the direction of USA Swimming Executive Director Chuck Wielgus, is to reduce the risk of abuse and create a safe environment for our 400,000 athletes. While USA Swimming acknowledges the value of communicating through these methods, we also realize that there may be associated risks that must be considered and monitored.

    As a rule of thumb, all communications between a coach or other adult and an athlete must be strictly professional in nature and only for the purpose of sharing information about team activities.

    A determining factor for the individual initiating the communication should be that that person would be comfortable saying the same message out loud to the athlete in front of the athlete’s parents, the coaching staff, the board or other athletes. If not, then the communication is not appropriate.

    Here are some tips to use to make sure electronic communication with athletes is appropriate:

    Transparent: All electronic communication between coaches and athletes should be transparent. Messages should be clear and direct, and also free of hidden meanings, innuendo, flirtation and expectations.

    Accessible: Make all electronic communication between coaches and athletes a matter of record. These communications should include another coach or parent so that there are no questions about appropriateness.

    Professional: Make sure that all interactions between a coach and an athlete are conducted professionally as a representative of the club. This includes word choices, tone, grammar, use of images and subject matter.

    Facebook, Instagram and Twitter: Coaches should set their social media accounts to private and should not “friend” athletes. If an athlete requests to “friend” a coach, the coach may take the opportunity to educate the athlete on appropriate boundaries.

    No Private Messages: Coaches and athletes are not allowed to “private” or “direct message” each other through any communication, including social media, platforms.

    Susan Woessner has worked with USA Swimming since 2004 and became Director of Safe Sport in 2010. She earned a master’s degree in social work from the University of Texas and swam competitively as an undergraduate at Indiana University.

     

    Featured photo by Simon (Pixabay)

  • Tom Foreman looks at the response to a pair of shark attacks that left two teens fighting for their lives on a North Carolina beach.

  • So there we are, Rod Gilmour’s “lyrical account of how one man beat the odds and galvanised a nation” will be out on 1 August 2015. Pre-order here on Chequered Flag Publishing or here on Amazon, and read the introduction here. See also Tumblr and Facebook.

  • As the temperature heats up, a lot of people are cooling off at the pools.

    Doctors at Greater Mobile Urgent Care say swimmers ear and gastrointestinal illnesses are common during the summer. If you have nausea, vomiting or diarrhea you may have caught a bug.

    Bacteria can also infect the ear canal and cause swimmer’s ear. Doctors say if a pool with fresh or salt water is shocked and chlorinated properly, you should be able to steer clear of illnesses in the water but there are some precautions you can take to prevent swimmer’s ear.

    “Probably the best thing to do when they get out every time, make sure they’re thoroughly dried off. Try to dry out that ear as much as possible and when you get home at night you can put about one part vinegar, one part rubbing alcohol and put about 5 ml in the ear, let it sit there about 5 min then let it drain out,” said Dr. Frailie with Greater Mobile Urgent Care.

    If you already have swimmer’s ear, doctors say don’t use the ear drops because that could cause more pain. Instead, go to the doctor.

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  • ABC News’ Matt Gutman reports on the latest attacks to happen at the nation’s beaches.

  • In 2014 more people drowned in Sweden than in any other year in the last decade. In fact, in the month of July, Swedish water-related accidents cost more lives than road traffic accidents. Most of the drowning victims were men and the majority had consumed alcohol.

    Many authorities are working hard to reverse this trend. But we also need your help to spread the message and ensure we change our behaviour when drinking around water environments.

    To show how alcohol affects our judgement and capabilities, we asked some of the world’s most sought after Synchronised Swimming Team, to perform their routine for us. Drunk. They were filmed for the short documentary Don’t Drink and Dive. Members of the three-time world champion Stockholm Men’s Synchronised Swimming Team are also representative of those most likely to drink and dive in Sweden – middle aged men.

    The film was recorded from 19.03 on the night of March 28th – 29th, 2015 at a swimming pool in Uppsala, Sweden. In addition to the synchronised swimmers from Stockholm, the Swedish national swimming team doctor, René Tour, two lifeguards from the Swedish Life Saving Society and Certified rescue diver Linnea Persson also took part. No-one was injured during the filming.

    Read more at www.dontdrinkanddive.org

    https://youtu.be/0-NyK_fErZ4

    Courtesy of Swedish insurance company Trygg-Hansa