Swimmer's Daily

  • Read the Wired

    Cronise got the idea back in 2008 while watching a TV program about Michael Phelps. The coverage claimed that, while training, the Olympic swimmer ate 12,000 calories a day. At the time, Cronise was on a diet of 12,000 calories per week. (He was carrying 209 pounds on his 5’9″ frame and wanted to get back down to 180.) Something didn’t add up. Even if Phelps had an exceptionally high metabolism and swam three hours a day, he still should have turned into a blob. Then it hit Cronise: Phelps was spending hours every day in water, which was sucking heat from his body. He was burning extra calories just to maintain his core temperature of 98.6.

  • A bit tough to fit in a weekend course from Friday at 18 to Sunday at 17 into an already busy schedule, especially when I sort of have been through it before. But there is always something new to learn, and now there’s only one weekend left :-)

    Coaching course at ÍSF, Faroe Islands

  • Jimmy and Michael talk about his quest to drastically lower his golf score and Jimmy talks about an incredible putt Michael sunk on TV.

  • The “Project X” quad is Aquacopter‘s first waterproof design, specifically designed to meet the needs of any pilot, novice or expert. With an onboard GoPro camera skimming inches above the water, images are captured with more ease than ever before. Read RC Groups

  • Read The Herald Sun

    Ian Thorpe has had $100,000 in funding cut by Swimming Australia while head coach Leigh Nugent has not heard from him since October.

    The decision by Swimming Australia to sever all financial support for the five-time Olympic gold medallist has cast fresh doubt over whether he will compete again.

    It has been suggested that Thorpe still has a desire to compete at the Glasgow Commonwealth Games next year, but there will be no financial support from Swimming Australia.

    It’s also understood Thorpe does not want to endure the pressure of having to qualify and compete at a major championships this year and so has turned his focus to Glasgow.

    The 30-year-old is not in race shape but is expected to resume training with Gennadi Touretski’s swim squad next month.

  • A Kazan 2015 World Championships advertising banner centrally placed at the FINA 2012 World Swimming Championships (25m) in Istanbul, Turkey. For some reason more visible than the upcoming 2012 Championships in Barcelona.

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  • “The time of the manta rays is over, lost to greed and exploitation by humans. Hannah is a wanderer, a sea gypsy, a manta ray reincarnate as person, lost to the world. Alone and searching for a time long past, she gives herself up to the sea, slowly walking into the waves and drifting into the dark abyss. In a dream-state, she awakens falling through water, bubbles and lights.”

    Mantas Last Dance from Blue Sphere Media on Vimeo.

  • The team of Bærumsvømmerne (NOR) conducts a short Haka at the beginning of the competition at the International Swim Meeting 2013 in Berlin. Via Georgian Swimmers Club

  • Brace yourself …

    What I see with my own eyes – and I’ve been to a few pools in my time to meet or interview Australian swimmers – is a sport largely made up of narcissistic, entitled young men and women mollycoddled from real life by their coaches, their business managers, their sponsors, a fawning media and a gormless public who swallow the fiction that they’re perpetually switched-on, cereal-masticating, alcohol-abstaining, hard-training heroes that go to bed early and will sacrifice everything to win gold and be the very best they can be.
    In reality many of them are anything but. At 3am in the morning in a dark Kings Cross nightclub the last thing you expect to see is an open-shirted Olympic medallist trying to pull some easy skirt, but it’s not an unknown occurrence.

    Read more here on Fox Sports