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RC Pool hosts Little 3 meet: women's swimming (The Bona Venture)
The women's swimming and diving team returns to the Reilly Center pool Friday to face the University at Buffalo.
Fate of community swimming pool hangs in the balance (Gazette)
THE future of Wotton Pool hangs in the balance after councillors voted to go forward with plans to stop funding the facility.
Does Breathing Every 3-5-7-9 Make You a Faster Swimmer? Swimming and Breath Control Does Breathing Every 3-5-7-9 Make You a Faster Swimmer? Swimming and Breath Control originally appeared on About.com Swimming on Wednesday, January 27th, 2010 at 00:26:15.
Swimmers, do you control your breathing rate during swimming sets in a swim practice? Do you follow a breathing pattern, taking one breath every certain number of swim strokes? Do you swim a certain distance and change the breathing pattern each length, such as breathing every 3-5-7-9 by 25's? Why do you do that?
Matt Grevers Wins Double Gold at the 2010 SoCal Grand Prix Swim Meet - Day 2 Matt Grevers Wins Double Gold at the 2010 SoCal Grand Prix Swim Meet - Day 2 originally appeared on About.com Swimming on Sunday, January 17th, 2010 at 04:20:02.
Olympian Matt Grevers took home two gold medals Saturday night on the second day of competition at the 2010 Southern California Grand Prix Swim Meet in Long Beach, Calif. Grevers won gold in both the men's 100y free and 200y back while Olympic gold medalist Michael Phelps took home one gold in the 500y free, his only event of the night.
Good Eating for Swimmers - What Should a Swimmer Eat? Good Eating for Swimmers - What Should a Swimmer Eat? originally appeared on About.com Swimming on Monday, January 18th, 2010 at 00:12:00.
Avoid fat; fat is ok, eat it up. Avoid carbohydrates; carbohydrates should be the major portion of your diet. Consume a high amount protein; eat balanced portions of proteins, fats, and carbohydrates. There is a lot of conflicting advice out there for swimmers on eating. What to do, what to do....
That depends on who you believe and what you are trying to achieve with your food intake.
HIGH SCHOOL SWIMMING: Pool of talent (The San Angelo Standard-Times)
SAN ANGELO, Texas —Coming off a sweep of the District 3-5A Swimming and Diving Championships in 2008, the Central High School boys and girls swim teams weren’t sure what to expect in their first 10-team, 2-5A meet a year ago.The Bobcats ended up third and the Lady Cats were fifth. Schools from Lubbock ran away with the team titles.A year later, the Central teams expect to finish about where they ...
Fitness Swimming by Emmett Hines (Book) Fitness Swimming by Emmett Hines (Book) originally appeared on About.com Swimming on Thursday, January 21st, 2010 at 00:15:00.
This book, Fitness Swimming, is a great resource for a swimmer with a little lap swimming experience that needs more direction, or a lap swimmer with a lot of swimming experience that wants to try some new ideas (of course, that assumes that the ideas in the book are new to that swimmer). It focuses on freestyle technique and fitness swim training from developing skills through swimming fast.
Swimmers To Do List - Improve Your Swimming Swimmers To Do List - Improve Your Swimming originally appeared on About.com Swimming on Sunday, January 31st, 2010 at 01:31:00.
There are many things that swimmers can do to swim better. This to do list of 10 ways to better swimming could help any swimmer improve their swimming. Get this to do list done and swim on!
How to Teach Swimmers the Back Float in 60 Seconds or Less? How to Teach Swimmers the Back Float in 60 Seconds or Less? originally appeared on About.com Swimming on Monday, January 25th, 2010 at 00:27:14.
When it comes to teaching swimming to true beginners who are at least 3 year of age, the back float can be taught in 60 seconds or less. Am I kidding? No, I am not. But let me explain an approach that will not only allow you to teach preschoolers to float on their back in 60 seconds or less, it will also help you teach preschoolers to swim sooner too.
(Photo by Jim Reiser)
Swim Lesson Teaching Time and Space Issues - Keep Parents and Others at a Distance? Swim Lesson Teaching Time and Space Issues - Keep Parents and Others at a Distance? originally appeared on About.com Swimming on Friday, January 29th, 2010 at 04:04:54.
A swim teacher and swim coach in England, Shev Gul, is trying to get people to realize, respect, and formally make the teaching of swim lessons a health and safety issue that needs to be done in a secure, uninterrupted environment. What this means in the long run is that people should be kept a certain distance away from the swim lesson teaching area. In other words, keep parents and others back from the side of the pool; they should wait and watch swim lessons or swim practice from a distance.
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