Swimmer's Daily

  • 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).

  • 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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  • There are many calm places to swim, boat, and water sport in the local area.

  • 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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  • Some pools and beaches won’t be opening for Memorial Day weekend due to a lifeguard shortage. FOX Business’ Grady Trimble with more.

  • 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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  • A Jacksonville family is grateful to be alive this Memorial Day weekend, and the dad says it’s all because of his 7-year-old son.

    The brave youngster outswam a current that separated him from his father and 4-year-old sister in the St. Johns River near Mandarin Point on Friday.

    Steven Poust said he anchored his boat in the water while he fished and his kids swam around.

    Chase, 7, said while they were in the water, his sister, Abigail, let go of the boat because of a strong current, so he let go and they were both stuck.

    “I felt really scared,” Chase said.

    Chase didn’t have a life jacket on, but his sister did. She floated along with the current as their father jumped in the water trying to grab her while Chase tried to swim to shore.

    “I told them I loved him because I wasn’t sure what’s going to happen,” Poust said. “I tried to stick with both of them. I wore myself out. She drifted away from me.”

    But Chase kept swimming to shore.

    He said he would doggie paddle, then float on his back to make sure he wouldn’t tire himself out.

    “The current was going the opposite way of going to the boat and the shore so it was very hard to swim that way,” Chase said.

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  • The “99 Problems” rapper opens up about learning to swim after the birth of his daughter Blue and how he boycotted the Grammys in solidarity with the late DMX.

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    Fatherhood sent Jay-Z right into the deep end – literally! The hip-hop mogul revealed that he didn’t learn to swim until his and Beyoncé’s daughter, Blue Ivy Carter, was born, sharing on a recent episode of LeBron James’ HBO show “The Shop: Uninterrupted” that swimming wasn’t a skill he was especially interested in until he had the instinct to protect someone’s life that was more important to him than his own. I didn’t learn how to swim until Blue was born. There goes everything you need to know. This is a metaphor for our relationship. If she ever fell in the water and I couldn’t get her, I couldn’t even fathom that thought. I gotta learn how to swim. That’s it. That was the beginning of our relationship,” he said.