Find out how a 75-year-old winter swimming enthusiast work out outdoors in Hulun Buir, one of the coldest areas of China.
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Caution: LCRA Receives Reports of Dogs Becoming Sick After Swimming in Area of Lake Travis
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Thin Ice: Europeans Warned Not to Skate on Thawing Canals After Spate of Accidents
There are bellyflops, and then there is skating, while half-naked on a half-frozen river, into a melting patch and landing face-forward into a mix of ice, slush, and very cold water.
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Czech Free-Diver David Vencl Shatters Ice-Swim World Record
Czech free-diver David Vencl swam nearly 81 meters (265.75 ft) beneath the ice on Tuesday, breaking the world record after braving the freezing water wearing only a swimsuit.
“This will do,” Vencl said after emerging from his minute-and-half swim in water measured at temperatures of 3 degrees Celsius and pumping his fist in celebration.
The 38-year-old changed the location for the record attempt to a former quarry in Lahost, 100 kilometers north-west of Prague, from a glacial lake in Austria due to COVID restrictions which made international travel difficult.
Vencl, who dropped into the water through one hole cut in the one-foot-thick ice before emerging from another, beat the previous record of 250 feet (76.2 m) set by Denmark’s Stig Avall Severinsen in October 2017 in southern Greenland.
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Dramatic Rescue of Dog in Frozen Swimming Pool Caught on Camera
During last week’s winter storms we saw our fair share of cold water rescues. Some, sadly, with deadly results. But there was one very close call in Murfreesboro that came with a very happy ending.
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Lake TÅ«tira Safe to Swim in Again
Locals enjoy swimming and gathering kai moana from Lake TÅ«tira after years of algae blooms made the lake a no-swim zone.
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How Does International Swimming League Recruiting Work? | The Social Kick
Coleman Stewart looks back on Season 2 of the International Swimming League and remember of Olympic Legend Jason Lezak, General Manager of the Cali Condors recruited him.
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The Comeback Story Of Olympic Swimmer Dara Torres
Swimmer Dara Torres won 12 Olympic medals over a nearly 25-year span from age 17 to 41.
But success in the pool early on in her career hid struggles with a serious eating disorder. Torres talks about that in-depth for the first time in a documentary that airs on the SEC Network on Monday called “Once Upon A Comeback.â€
As a swimmer at the University of Florida during the ‘80s, Torres says she faced pressure from coaches, particularly Randy Reese, to lose weight. At the time, the coaches didn’t know a lot about eating disorders, she says.
One coach wanted the team to look intimidating to competitors on the starting blocks and set a weight goal for the swimmers to meet, she says. If someone didn’t make weight, they had to do extra workouts.
“For me personally, having come from a background where I’ve never trained like that before in my life, to have to do extra workouts was just, that wasn’t going to happen for me,†she says. “And one thing led to another. I sort of got in this habit of bingeing and purging in my freshman year, and that’s kind of how it all started and just sort of snowballed from there.â€
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Consistency in Swimming – With Coach Pat Rohner | Swim On
It takes consistency and correct habits to develop your swim.