Swimmer's Daily

  • Guest post by allearplugs.com

    Summer holidays are the ideal opportunity to enjoy some time on the beach, lapping up the ocean waves and sea breeze. However, an idyllic summer break can be spoilt if you are unfortunate enough to be taken ill, with one of the most common afflictions being swimmer’s ear.

    What is swimmer’s ear?

    Swimmer’s ear is an infection in the outer ear canal and is often brought on by water trapped in the ear after swimming. This water creates a moist environment for bacterial growth and can lead to an infection, creating a range of unpleasant symptoms.

    “Swimmer’s ear is more common in water with higher bacterial counts, which generally include lakes or other un-chlorinated bodies of water,” says Dr. Green, a columnist for Parenting Magazine.

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  • I say “you go, big boy !!” :-)

    BCBS Swimming 30 from Colin Quinn on Vimeo.

  • Read azcentral.com

    Two years of training led Ruby Sherlund to this moment.

    The 81-year-old gripped the side of the pool with manicured fingers on Sunday as she waited for the race to start. Her wheelchair sat empty on the pool deck at Mesquite Grove Aquatic Center in Chandler.

    At the sound of the buzzer, she and two other competitors shoved off the wall for the 50-yard backstroke race in the Arizona Senior Olympics swimming competition.

    Read also ahwatukee.com

    Being in a wheelchair has not stopped this young spirit to stay active, and she’s currently training hard to compete in the 2014 Senior Olympics in Chandler.

  • Collegiate and Masters Swim Coach Doug Alban, MEd, CSCS explains and Swimmer Kyle Williams demonstrates the double entry swimming drill for freestyle swimmers and triathletes.

  • Learn how to strengthen and improve freestyle swimming for triathlon and open water from US Olympian Alex Meyer. He integrates time-efficient power based dryland swim-specific training on Vasa Trainers and Vasa Swim Ergometers. He relies on using the popular swim benches to connect better, more powerfully with the water, to sustain proper high elbow catch freestyle and prevent fatigue in races. This video will help any triathlete or swimmer who is time-crunched, can’t get to the pool often enough, or who wants to improve Freestyle swimming technique, sustained power, and endurance to swim better, faster, with greater confidence.

    http://youtu.be/5P1gZtc1ck0

  • Via Nothing To Do With Arbroath

    Thousands of semi-naked men clad only in brief loincloths took part in the biggest ‘naked festival’ in Japan, the Hadaka Matsuri, in the city of Okayama on Saturday night.

    http://youtu.be/X8Ec4qrW34s

  • Image courtesy of Rockybiggs, CC BY-SA 3.0
    Image courtesy of Rockybiggs, CC BY-SA 3.0

    Read BBC

    As British swimmers leapt from the London 2012 starting blocks, they should have been doing so in full confidence.

    But their performance was one of the few lowlights of 2012, with the team securing three medals instead of UK Sport’s target of at least five.

    “We put a lot of pressure on ourselves,” said Rebecca Adlington, who won two of those medals. “And there is always this fear that if we don’t perform, we will get our funding cut.”

    British Swimming’s funding was, indeed, cut by £4m. But it is not just at the elite level swimming has suffered.

    Since 2008, grassroots participation has fallen from 3.2 million to 2.9 million a week, while the Amateur Swimming Association says 51% of children aged seven to 11 cannot swim 25m.

    What has gone wrong with swimming in Britain?

  • See redpinecamp.com

    For Once You Have Been A Camper, Something Is Here To Stay, Deep In Your Heart Forever, Which Nothing Can Take Away

    Here are some campers explaining their 50 mile swim

  • Read Huffington Post

    If you have a bottomless bank account and a love that goes deeper than the ocean, a British travel outfit has created a package that allows lovers to make their own tsunami waves in a romantic getaway aboard a luxury submarine.

    OK, so it’s not yellow. But for adventurous couples who may have already inducted themselves into the Mile High Club at 35,000 feet, Oliver’s Travels has adapted a leisure submarine with luxury furnishings and “sound-proof living accommodations” as part of their Mile Low Club.

    The underwater marine hotel called “Lovers Deep” can be moored near the coral reef off the coast of St. Lucia or near a sunken battleship in the Red Sea.

    But love at the bottom of the ocean doesn’t come cheap. You’ll need to cough up $292,800 USD per night for a stay on the submarine vessel.