Lilly King is a Hoosier, Harry Potter fan and Olympic swimmer.
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The Weirdest Thing I’ve Seen In Freestyle | Effortless Swimming
One of the strangest things I’ve seen in a freestyle stroke came during the European Championships this week. Up-and-coming Russian swimmer Ilya Borodin has a unique dolphin kick after each breath. What are your thoughts on it?
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Lifeguards Warn Swimmers After Great White Shark Sighting | FOX 5 San Diego
Lifeguards were warning the public Monday about a shark sighting near Black’s Beach in La Jolla.
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Wild Wye Swim Run 2021
The Wild Wye SwimRun is a new 12km running race with the 100m swim across the River Wye at high tide, with SARA (Severn Area Rescue Association).
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An 11-Year-Old Girl and Her Father’s Epic Swim in Stormy Seas After Their Yacht Sank. | ABC News
An 11-year-old girl and her father survived for more than four hours in stormy seas after their yacht sank off the coast of Jurien Bay.
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Safe Places to Swim in the Sacramento Area Memorial Day 2021
There are many calm places to swim, boat, and water sport in the local area.
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Your Gym Teacher Was Wrong — You Don’t Have To Stretch Before Working Out
Maybe your junior high gym class gave you the idea that before you workout, you need to stretch. Touching your toes might help prevent injury, you might have heard, or help you run as fast as you could.
But decades of research have found that static stretching — where you reach and hold your position for several seconds — before exercising doesn’t help. It’s possible that instead, the movements do the opposite of what you want them to: Make you perform worse and make you more likely to get hurt.
“If the goal is to improve performance, then you usually don’t do static stretching prior,†says Nick Kruse, an exercise physiologist at the University of Iowa. Instead, it might be better to swap in another warm-up before your run, and maybe move the static stretches to another part of the day.
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Lifeguard Shortage Threatens Summer Swimming | Fox Business
Some pools and beaches won’t be opening for Memorial Day weekend due to a lifeguard shortage. FOX Business’ Grady Trimble with more.
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What Color Is Your Child’s Swimsuit? Aquatic Safety Group Names Best and Worst Options Ahead of Memorial Day
The color of your child’s bathing suit may be more important than you realize.
The results of a recent study indicate that brighter, neon swimsuits are the most easily visible when submerged below the surface of pools or open water. The findings also came just ahead of Memorial Day weekend, when families across the country may be taking their little ones to the water.
Alive Solutions, Inc., a consulting and education firm focusing on aquatic safety, conducted a series of tests with over a dozen swimsuit colors to come to their results.
In one of the first tests, 14 different suits in various colors were submerged in a pool with a light-colored (white) bottom, both with and without surface agitation of the water. The most visible swimsuits, as observed by Alive Solutions, were those in neon pink and neon orange. Swimsuits in white and light blue were deemed to be the least visible, as they “disappear†underwater. Darker colors, too, were a poor choice as they may “often be dismissed for a pile of leaves, dirt, or a shadow†on the pool’s bottom, Alive Solutions determined.
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