Please go to the Race Club website for a full transcript of this swim tip on avoiding overheating in swimming.
Year: 2011
Workout Thursday, January 13, 2011
Last Thursday I went to Maggligen for a workout with one of my former teammates and oldest swimming friends. His team was away for a meet and he went through some hard training earlier in the week so it was sort of a recovery workout with some smooth build swims. I’m thinking about making a subscription based workouts stream available, so I though you might like this one in the meantime. Download the workout as a PDF on ProSwimWorkouts.com
Upper Keys Masters Meet Series
The Fighting Manatee Swim Club is putting together a Masters swim meet series in 2011. They will host three meets, one meet in every pool available, starting with Short Course Yards on the first weekend of February. Also during this first meet there will be a swim clinic by US Olympian Jon Olsen. Please read the meet announcement or visit their website for more information on the series.
Breathing Patterns
Please go to the Race Club website for a full transcript of this swim tip on breathing patterns.
Swimming is a Team Sport
I heard this story a couple times now and it never gets old. Lots of valuable in this speech from Gary Hall Sr. for any swimmer.
Interview with Mike Bottom (Part 1)
University of Michigan and former Race Cub head coach Mike Bottom sat down with Gary Hall Sr. while in the Florida Keys for a training camp. You can watch the first part of the interview with Mike on the Race Club website.
Stats 2010
Another year came to a close and as the last two years, it’s time to share some statistics about 2010. You’ll notice that I wasn’t a poster child for training in 2010 and as I announced in last year’s post, my focus was on graduating, which I’m happy to say I did.
To sum 2010 up, I swam a “grand” total of 339.5km in only 79 swimming sessions and competed in only 2 meets which adds up to about 113 hours in the water. The two meets I decided to swim in 2010 were my club’s, Lancy Natation, annual home meet and Masters Nationals to make me “feel better about myself”.
Although I decided to try to make more finswimming practices in 2010 after some good results in 2009, it just didn’t fit in the plan neither. But even without being in race shape I did also compete in two finswimming meets in 2010. A one race showing at my finswimming club’s, Dauphins Genève, annual home meet and one day at Nationals.
Teen raps about life as a swimmer
Just the other day I came across this article about a young swimmer who wrote and produced a song about the life of a swimmer. I thought this was worth sharing and if you’re a swimmer, you should absolutely listen to the song! Here’s an excerpt from the article on USA Swimming’s website.
Dylan Ludwick, 17, a member of the Tri-Hampton YMCA swim team in Bucks County, Pa., recently submitted a song to USA Swimming that he wrote and produced for his team’s annual taper meet. […] Ludwick offered his song as a free download, but would like to encourage swimmers to show their appreciation by donating to the Fran Crippen Elevation Foundation. Ludwick grew up watching Crippen swim in the Middle Atlantic LSC and had a chance to compete against him at last year’s 5K Open Water National Championships.
Download the song [download id=”6193″] or read the full article on USA Swimming’s website.