Swimmer's Daily

  • Twelve-time Olympic medalist and world-record holder Ryan Lochte has two passions: training for the Tokyo Summer Olympic Games in July 2021 and turning SPIRE Academy Swimming into the top athletic training hub (and tournament venue) for the world’s best swimmers.

    Lochte joined the SPIRE Institute and Academy team in February to serve as an International Ambassador for its boarding school, camp/club training programs, major events, and recreational aquatics program. A one-of-a-kind campus that features 750,000 sq ft of indoor training and competition facilities, SPIRE is the largest indoor sports complex in North America. It is also highly regarded as a host of swimming events including USA Swimming, NCAA, Big East, Atlantic 10 Championships, and local, regional and sectional meets.

    Just how sold the 35-year-old Olympian is on the SPIRE Academy’s Swimming program is evident in his most recent video, in which he is seen touring the Academy’s swim complex. SPIRE Academy features a 10-lane, 50-meter Olympic size pool with 2 movable bulkheads, a 25-yard recreation pool, 4 therapeutic pools to support training and rehab activities, full locker room facilities, and a world-class SPIRE Performance Training Center.

    “I’ve been swimming since I was 5 years old, so I’ve seen just about everything in terms of training programs and facilities,” said Lochte. “But SPIRE is special in so many ways. From an athlete development and training perspective, we have the potential to build something here that is totally unique. I’m excited to be a part of that process, and I look forward to helping SPIRE make a major impact on the sport of swimming– both in and out of the pool.”

    https://youtu.be/lmUHOYIWFuI

  • USA Swimming celebrates the 365 days countdown until the 2021 U.S. Olympic Team Trials – Swimming.

  • Set in 2007, a young amputee swimmer Alex has his heart set on one of he coaches at the local pool. After accidentally rejecting her, Alex’s friends steal his phone and send her a raunchy text message. Mortified, Alex must get to her phone before she sees the message, or risk losing her forever.

    Diving In co-directed by former Youth Paralympian Adam Bowes and Australian Directors’ Guild Award-nominee Nina Oyama (The Angus Project), premiered in the 67th Sydney Film Festival: Virtual Edition as part of the Screenability program, an exciting platform for screen practitioners with disability, in partnership with Screen NSW.

  • What does synchronized swimming look like? Here’s a sample of Anita in action, as well as an excerpt from our interview. (Video courtesy thelegendofNeshka.)

  • If you’re looking to beat the heat, you can visit Guadalupe River State. But don’t forget to make a reservation! Digital journalist Lexi Hazlett takes you there.

    https://youtu.be/9zQRqj0FsqQ

  • This Music Monday, we feature the performance by Mexican Artistic Swimming duet Karem Achach and Nuria Diosdado at the 2016 Summer Olympics Games to “Aaila Re Aaila”, an Indian song by Daler Mehndi and Kalpana Patowary. Enjoy watching!

  • The Australian Government’s announcement of new funding for high-performance athletes is to include $725,000 for Swimming Australia to equip at least one pool in each state with the latest technology, including cameras and instrumented turning plates.

    Items to be installed include underwater cameras, new starting blocks, and cutting-edge analysis software designed to help Australia’s swimmers optimize their performance.

    The funding has been welcomed by current multiple world record holder and dual Olympic gold medal winner, Cate Campbell who yesterday told Sydney’s The Sunday Telegraph “for us to have any extra bit of technology that gives your coach eyes underwater, it’s really an advantage because you’re looking to make any gain anywhere because our sport has such small margins.”

    Sydney Olympic Park Aquatic Centre is understood to be one of the facilities in which the high-performance equipment is installed.

    Read Australian Leisure Management

     

  • Does cooldown really reduce muscle soreness after workout? Is body weight more important than resistance training? Are burpees the ultimate single exercise? Are planks better than crunches when trying to slim your waist?

    Exercise scientist Sandra Hunter, physiologist Fabio Comana, and researcher Harry Dorell give a scientific and logical answer to these questions. Spoiler alert: the answers to the questions above are all no. The scientific reasons behind these answers could be found over at Discover Magazine.

    Via Neatorama

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