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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!
French Town Heats Swimming Pool With Sewage (Fast Company Magazine)
Sometimes swimming in public pools can seem a little unsanitary, but one French town in the suburbs of Paris really puts the poo in pool. Sophie Deschiens, the Environment Councilwoman for the town of Levallois-Perret , was bugged by the wasted energy of hot water getting dumped down the drain. The water in city pipes averages a temperature of 68 F, she thought, so why not put it to good use ...
Breaststroke Swimming Technique Thoughts Breaststroke Swimming Technique Thoughts originally appeared on About.com Swimming on Thursday, February 4th, 2010 at 03:13:36.
What is your mental picture of a breaststroke swimmer? This is one result from a mental exercise to quickly describe different elements of breaststroke swimming.
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.
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.
Women’s and men’s swimming throw last home pool party (The Carletonian)
The women’s swimming and diving team defeated St. Olaf College 199-100 to finish their regular season with only one loss. The men’s team put forth a solid improvement compared to last year against a powerful St. Olaf team that placed 4th in the nation in 2009.
Alternatives to Chlorine for Swimming Pools Alternatives to Chlorine for Swimming Pools originally appeared on About.com Swimming on Saturday, February 6th, 2010 at 01:17:35.
Studies in the United States, Canada and Norway have linked chlorine byproducts in ordinary tap water to higher health risks. Of disturbing news for indoor swimming pool patrons are studies that show much higher levels of these chemicals are found in swimmers. And the highest levels are found in the most active swimmers.
Swimming in Swaziland Coach Don Heidary of Orinda Aquatics went on a trip to Swaziland, Africa to "talk about club development, staff training, parent structure, training plans, stroke drills, race strategy, to stand on the deck and assist with training groups... ...the reality was that they had little or no exposure to the world of swimming... ...conversations quickly centered around club survival, getting kids into a used swim suit (as opposed to their underwear), getting kids to the pool as most families do not have cars, surviving financially as most cannot pay, and just keeping children from drowning. There was no staff, parents, or finances to manage." Everyone involved in the swimming world needs to read Don's report, Swazi Swimming, Vision and Reality. Swimming in Swaziland originally appeared on About.com Swimming on Monday, February 8th, 2010 at 00:19:54.
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