You may have heard of Aaron Peirsol’s, US Olympic backstroker, Race for the Oceans. Charitybuzz,along with some other auctioneers has put together a auction called “A Bid to Save the Earth” for the upcoming 40th Anniversary of Earth Day on April 22. In addition to “donate” some money to a good cause you could win a swim lesson with Aaron Peirsol and learn how to backstroke like an Olympian as well as get 2 spots in this year’s Race for the Oceans Race and event dinner in Newport Beach, California.
Year: 2010
Real Winner
Real Winner is an online educational program for athletes by Antidoping Switzerland, covering the World Anti Doping Code. You will learn the basics of the code through nine short, snappy and fun modules. You will receive a certificate once you completed all of their modules. Also if you haven’t seen the official Antidoping Switzerland’s website new look, go and check it out.
Big City Life
It didn’t look like I would ever get to an end with this post. I started writing on it last summer when I got back from my coaching stint in the Florida Keys. But kept adding and changing things ever since. This post allowed me to sort my ideas and figure out what I want to do in the future. Putting in all of what happened in those now almost four years in Geneva was impossible but believe most of it wasn’t that exciting anyway.
Things have been pretty crazy the last year (and a half) to say the least. From going through the first part of my training in the Swiss Army, coming back to Geneva and working my way back in the pool under the guidance of Benjamin Paris with the Lancy Swim Team, coaching the Florida Keys Swim Team for a summer to again coming back to Geneva to follow a packed study schedule to eventually graduate (by the end of July 2010).
Time for Tyrosine
Nathan Jendrick explains one of Thunderbolt’s ingredients in more depth. Read why Tyrosine is one of only four ingredients for Thunderbolt in his second post “Time for Tyrosine“.
FGC Open Invitational 2010
The four athletes from the Philippines I was coaching during my two weeks with the Race Club went to the FGC Open Invitation last weekend (February 20 – 21) held at the city of Plantation Central Park Pool. Checking on their results last night I was happy to see they all did well. Dorothy swept …
Watch out, Gary Hall Jr. is back
My good friend Gary Hall Jr. is blogging for the Los Angeles Times from the Vancouver Winter Olympics. You can read his first post following this link Watch out, readers, Gary Hall Jr. is back. Go to his personal section on the Olympics Blogs to keep up to date with all of his postings from Vancouver.
Thunderbolt: Effective Simplicity
Nathan Jendrick, the newest addition to the Race Club staff, published his first column explaining the supplement Thunderbolt. I did try it myself and couldn’t agree more with Nathan. Find out why Thunderbolt is unique by reading “Thunderbolt: Effective Simplicity” and if you like purchase some for your own.
Sharklike Trainingcamps
Claudio Derungs, former coach of mine during my time with the Swimming Team in Biel, announced the launch of his own training camp service Sharklike on the beautiful island of Fuerteventura.
Workout Friday Jan 22
Last Friday, Jan 22, I had to go through a test set which I thought was one of the better main sets I recently did. So that’s why I wanted to share this workout with you. I did swim fly but you can really do this in any other stroke of your choice. Let me know what you think. And of course if you did take the set and go through, let me know how you did. Download the PDF file at ProSwimWorkouts.com to get the full workout.