Swimmer's Daily

  • By Lee Stanbury, Experienced Swim Coach with 25 years + experience.

    The KayakPro SwimFast unit its self is extremely well made, with a bench that can be suited for ALL ages and Heights, the hand paddles do fit all sizes of swimmers, the light front part of the paddle is great for a focus on catch phases, in ALL the strokes.

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    As a coach technical feedback can be a highly important part of swimming training, standing close to your swimmer will allow great feedback usingย  the swim fast , high elbow, early vertical form and front end of stroke, many different options, all strokes and technical areas..

    With a Reactive Workbench that creates a good torso roll, this is great for the correct shoulder angles, good balance in ALL strokes is key.

    The patented โ€œCatchโ€ on SwimFast is extraordinarily smooth with no catch delay.

    The SwimFast also comes with extras like the Halo SwimBench Template..

    Available through a cooperative effort between SwimFast and the HALO Swim Bench Company.

    The HALOโ€™s patented templates guides the swimmer into a crucial phase early in each stroke cycle called โ€œHigh Elbow Catchโ€ or โ€œEarly Vertical Forearmโ€ in particular like this , Early Vertical Forearm, OR EVF as its also known as is a keep composite in swimmer speed and development..

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    Catch & Resistance

    Adjustable, Variable, delay โ€“ proof catch, with soft catch-entry and water feel. The SwimFast Ergometer has a patented recoil technology that ensures identical resistance each side with instantly connected return at whatever tempo you choose.

    Head Support

    The Swim Fast has a Removable and adjustable head support. It will support the athleteโ€™s head so that the neck and supporting muscles are not working whilst training on SwimFast, it actually works quite well, and adds just that little bit more support.

    • Extendable Swim Bench & EZ-Roll Wheels
    • Extendable Swim bench which compresses after work-out to minimize space requirement when not in use. E-Z roll wheels allow the SwimFast to be moved from location to location. The SwimFast can be stored vertically, this is great , it basically means that the unit can placed anywhere – tucked away on the poolside and then pulled out for training sessions.

    The On-Board Console

    For accurate data, performance monitoring, measurement and comparison,

    The SwimFast on-board console comes included with your SwimFast Ergometer.

    Displaying your –

    • DISTANCE
    • TIME
    • STROKE RATE
    • HEART RATE [ANT+ compatible]
    • POWER OUTPUT IN WATTS
    • CALORIES BURNED PER HOUR
    • TIME ELAPSED
    • COUNT DOWN DISTANCE OR TIME
    • PROJECTED OR PACE SPEED
    • FULLY CALIBRATED AND ATHLETE WEIGHT ADJUSTED
    • The on-board console is able to receive input of the performing athleteโ€™s weight.

    It is important to input the userโ€™s weight in order to ensure that the data output for each SwimFast Ergometer is specific to the weight of the athlete that is using it.

    Key sessions can be achieved using the console, sprint sets and distance sets can be done using the console, interval sets that are so key to a swimmers training and fitness.

    For more info in UK go toย https://www.swimfastergometer.org/

  • Sheโ€™s one of Canadaโ€™s top swimmers, having caught the countryโ€™s attention with countless university titles.

    But Kimberly Moorsโ€™ biggest fan isnโ€™t that big at all.

    โ€œSheโ€™s my world,โ€ said the 29-year-old while talking about her daughter. โ€œI love her. I canโ€™t imagine my life without her.โ€

    On top of being a student-athlete with the Manitoba Bisons, Moors is also a single mom to six-year-old Mila.

    See Global News

  • Environmental anthropologist Kenny Broad and his team go underwater and underground to explore caves. โ€œWhen things go great in cave diving, there’s nothing more spectacular in the world,โ€ Broad says. โ€œThen I get to the surface and I get to think about the problem of what did we learn, and how can it help us deal with water management, with climate change, with preserving fossils? All the things that matter for day-to-day life on the surface.โ€

    Underwater Cave Diving | Best Job Ever

  • Go behind the scenes with Team Speedo athlete, Michael Jamieson, and find out more about the Olympic silver medallist. Including his favourite swimming destination, cartoon choice and which sport he enjoys away from the pool.

    Team Speedo video ว€ Interview with swimmer Michael Jamieson

  • Parents of students at Princess Anne High School in Virginia Beach want to know what got their kids sick Thursday night.

    They tell 10 On Your Side more than half of the Princess Anne swim team got sick Thursday night during a meet at Maury High School in Norfolk.

    Swimmers say as soon as they got in the water they noticed something strange bubble up inside.

    โ€œMaybe 10 minutes later, I started feeling a little sick. My stomach started feeling queasy,โ€ Junior Thomas Rios said.

    Rios went to the locker room and threw up. He wasnโ€™t the only one. Most of the 32 swimmers on the team were sick.

    See WAVY

    Princess Anne swim team mysteriously sick after meet at Maury High

  • A common stereotype about black people is that they can’t swim! We did a series of tests with people of all races to prove once and for all if the worst swimmers are black. Find out if it’s true in this weeks episode!

    Black People Can't Swim | Is It True? | All Def Comedy

  • ASA writes

    The latest Sport England Active People Survey figures show that over 2.5 million adults continue to enjoy swimming each week.

    The statistics also show that over the last six months there has been a five per cent growth in open water swimming, and over 250,000 adults have improved their swimming ability through teaching and coaching.

    In addition, since April more than 25,000 people aged 45 and over, and 17,800 more people from black, asian and minority ethnic communities have started swimming more regularly. Swimming Clubs and competitions have also seen an increase.

    ASA Chief Executive, Adam Paker, said: โ€œWe are encouraged by the latest Active People results which confirm swimming remains the most popular participation sport in the country.

    But BT Sports writes

    The number of people taking part in swimming regularly has continued to fall in England despite a sharp rise in the number of women participating in sport at least once a week.

    Sport England’s chief executive Jennie Price said swimming has “an awful lot to do” after announcing an overall increase in participation with a big rise for sports such as running and gym attendances.

    Swimming experienced another fall of 39,300 to just over 2.5million. Football (down 66,600 to 1.81million) and cycling (down 24,300 to 2.03million) also had drops in numbers taking part, while tennis, cricket, boxing and rugby union had increases.

    The number of women playing sport has increased by 148,700, with the overall figure for both sexes being 15.74million in the 12 months to the end of September, up by 245,200 compared to June.

    Sport England believes its ‘This Girl Can’ campaign which targeted women has had a big impact, with a promotional video being watched more than 37million times on Facebook and YouTube alone.

    In terms of swimming, Price told Press Association Sport: “Swimming is only down 30,000 in these figures but over the year it has lost 180,000 participants. That remains a lot, and although it is good it has not continued to drop as sharply swimming has got an awful lot to do.

    “The good thing is they acknowledge now they have a real problem and that there is a long hard road ahead, rather than just claiming the figures are not being measured correctly.”

    This Girl Can โ€“ what about you?

  • Suspended former Olympic swimming champion Park Tae-hwan is scheduled to return home on Saturday from a Japanese training camp with hopes of competing in next year’s Summer Games still up in the air, informed sources said Friday.

    Park, serving a doping ban, began training in Japan in September, after struggling to find proper facilities at home. In March, the 2008 Olympic gold medalist in the men’s 400-meter freestyle received an 18-month ban from FINA, the international swimming governing body, after testing positive for testosterone the previous fall. The suspension began retroactively on Sept. 3, 2014, the day FINA collected his samples.

    Under FINA’s anti-doping policy, Park isn’t permitted to train at facilities operated by the government or by his national swimming federation. He had been working out at a public pool in Seoul since June, but he could only train there two hours a day.

    Park, 26, had been scheduled to work out at Hosei University in Tokyo but ended up in Osaka instead. He was later joined by his long-time coach Roh Min-sang.

    Read Yonhap News Agency

  • The Netherlandsโ€™ Ranomi Kromowidjojo, who equaled her own world record in the womenโ€™s 50m free with a time of 23.24, was named Speedo Female Athlete of the Meet.

    See USA Swimming

    2015 Mutual of Omaha Duel in the Pool 50M Freestyle Women