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Swimming with Fins Swimming with Fins originally appeared on About.com Swimming on Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010 at 02:02:59.
Swimming with fins is a way for swimmers to improve kick strength, ankle flexibility, body position, and go faster during a swim practice. Swim fins or flippers come in hundreds of shapes, colors, fastenings, and sizes; different fins will do different things for (and to) you.
Swimming: Flames warming up to their campus pool (Omaha World-Herald)
Armed with little more than flyers on bulletin boards and a wireless phone with unlimited minutes, Rich Draper is building a new college swimming program from the deck up. Before this school year, the College of St. Mary only...
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.
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?
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.
Swimming pool bids evaluated (Worcester Telegram & Gazette)
WORCESTER - City officials are evaluating bids for the $2.5 million new municipal swimming pool at Crompton Park.
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.
Boonville girls, Pilot Grove boys capture first in PG Swimming Pool 5th-6th Grade Tourney (Boonville Daily News)
The Boonville girls fifth and sixth grade basketball team and the Pilot Grove boys captured the championship in the Pilot Grove Swimming Pool Tournament over the weekend. In the girl’s championship game, Boonville defeated Blackwater for the title by a score of 24-17. Sydney Poindexter led the scoring attack in the game for Boonville with nine points while Paige Renfrow had the game-high for ...
Crash car lands in swimming pool (Perth Now)
A WOMAN driver has been breath tested after crashing her car into a swimming pool at a house in Merriwa, in Perth's northern suburbs.
Michael Phelps Swims to Gold at the 2010 SoCal Grand Prix Swim Meet - Day 3 Michael Phelps Swims to Gold at the 2010 SoCal Grand Prix Swim Meet - Day 3 originally appeared on About.com Swimming on Monday, January 18th, 2010 at 00:33:42.
Olympic gold medalist Michael Phelps claimed the gold in the 400y IM Sunday night at the 2010 Southern California Grand Prix swim meet in Long Beach, Calif. Phelps held off Japan's Hidemasa Sano in the final race of the night to take home his second gold medal of the meet. Three meet records also fell Sunday night with strong performances by Katie Hoff, Japan's Kosuke Kitajima, and Rebecca Soni.
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)
Swimming & Diving: Records shattered as Tigers dominate in pool (Daily Princetonian)
The men’s and women’s swimming and diving teams traveled to Hanover, N.H., over Intersession for a meet against Dartmouth that they hoped would tune them up for the prestigious Harvard-Yale-Princeton (HYP) meet the following weekend. This was a successful strategy, as both the men’s and women’s teams won both competitions.
Officials evaluating bids for new city swimming pool (Worcester Telegram & Gazette)
WORCESTER - City officials are evaluating bids received for the $2.5 million new municipal swimming pool at Crompton Park.
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