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Grevers and Hoff Win High-Point Awards at the 2010 Southern California Grand Prix Grevers and Hoff Win High-Point Awards at the 2010 Southern California Grand Prix originally appeared on About.com Swimming on Tuesday, January 19th, 2010 at 04:53:00.
Olympians Matt Grevers and Katie Hoff took home the men's and women's high-point award Monday at the 2010 Southern California Grand Prix Swim Meet in Long Beach, Calif. Michael Phelps took home one gold medal in the 100y fly
and a total of three meet records were broken on the final night of competition.
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.
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 ...
RC Pool hosts Little 3 meet: men's swimming (The Bona Venture)
The men's swimming team returned home this week after a trip to Washington, D.C., to face Georgetown. The Bonnies defeated the Hoyas, 162-138, to improve to 4-3 in dual meets, despite a struggle to even make it to the meet.
Swim Skills for Swimmers to Master for Better Swimming Swim Skills for Swimmers to Master for Better Swimming originally appeared on About.com Swimming on Saturday, January 23rd, 2010 at 02:43:27.
Swim coaches like to talk about how swimming gets harder as a swimmer goes faster because of an increase in drag. The swimmer must decrease the impact of that drag or apply a great deal more muscle power while swimming. Swimmers find it difficult to get results from applying more muscle power to the water if they are not doing it the right way. The first steps to faster swimming are positioning, grabbing, pressing, and rotating, things that everyone can learn. Here are a few things to check before trying to put more muscle power into your swims.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Swimming & Diving. H2O Frogs Set Five Pool Records To Defeat Centenary (Texas Christian University Athletics)
The TCU men's and women's swimming and diving team picked up a pair of wins of Centenary College Saturday at the Haynes Fitness Center. Arkansas-Little Rock was slated for the meet, but could not travel due to inclement weather.
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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?
One more go for Waterloo swimming pool improvements (Suburban Journals)
Call it ballot box déjà vu. For the sixth time in four years, Waterloo voters are being asked to approve paying for improvements to the city's public swimming pool, a 316 N. Library St. complex built about 40 years ago.
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