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Annual Blue & Green Team Practices Wednesday & Thursday With the CVST Blue/Green Meet this Friday, the Annual Blue & Green Team Practices will also take place this week as follows: Wednesday, April 20 - Blue Team 4:30-5:30pm / Green Team 5:30-6:30pm Thursday, April 21 - Green Team 4:30-5:30pm / Blue Team 5:30-6:30pm The actual Blue/Green Meet will be held Friday, with warm-ups for both teams beginning at 4:30 pm and the meet beginning at 5:30 pm. Immediately following the meet, will be the Annual CVST Family Relays...
Stimulant, Banned From Sports, Found in Dietary Supplements in U.S. FDA has warned makers of 8 products containing oxilofrine, or methylsynephrine THURSDAY, April 7, 2016 (HealthDay News) -- A stimulant banned from competitive sports has been found in more than a dozen dietary supplements marketed for "burning" body fat. Researchers found the stimulant -- called oxilofrine -- in 14 supplement brands sold in the United States. All of the products listed the substance on their labels, but under the alternative name of methylsynephrine. Experts said the results...
17 Things Every Swimmer Does (But would never admit) By: Olivier Poirier-Leroy We’re a funny bunch. We dunk our heads into water for hours at a time and have staring matches with a black tiled line (usually losing). We don’t shave our bodies for months at a time, and spend thousands of hours training in order to drop tenths or hundredths of a second. There are the things that we fully cop to (peeing in the pool, is one glaring example), and a host of others that we...
Coaching From The Stands Is Confusing For Athletes By Kevin Eastman, Positive Coaching Alliance In this video, Eastman discusses why parents should not coach from the stands. He talks about a drill that he used that involved blindfolding a kid and everyone had to yell directions at a child in order to help him/her make a shot. When parents yelled, the child was so confused and never ended up near the basket. Watch the video here:
There Is A Difference Between Energy Drinks And Sports Drinks By USADA, April 13, 2016 It is easy to get confused about the difference between energy drinks and sports drinks. Sport drinks contain electrolytes and carbohydrates to rehydrate you and provide fuel after exercise. Energy drinks, on the other hand, may or may not contain electrolytes, but they always contain a large dose of stimulants. Learn more here:
Blue/Green Meet Team Selections Released The CVST Blue/Green Meet Draft was held Monday and the team selections were announced at practice last night. It looks to be an exciting meet with Captains Meredith Seibold (Blue Team) and Talia Bagby (Green Team) spending the better part of the afternoon drafting their teams. Click Here to download a copy of the selections. Click Here to go to the Blue/Green Meet Event Page. Click Here for information on the CVST Family Night & Family Relays. Click Here ...
4 Swim Parent Tips About Olympic Dreams After talking with parents of Olympians, I discovered they don’t push their kids. Instead, they put zero limitations on their kids’ dreams. They are encouraging, hopeful and never say it’s impossible. It’s easy to put limitations on our own dreams and our kids’ dreams, too. Maybe we’re protecting them from disappointment? If we let our kids discover for themselves what they are capable of, and don’t interfere in the process, there’s no telling what they’ll achieve. Here are my tips...
Taylor Cassels Named CVST March SOM The Carrolllwood Village Swim Team has named Taylor Cassels (8) as the March Swimmer of the Month. Swimming at the Florida Swimming Area 3 Championships in St. Petersburg, Florida, the 8 year old Silver practice group swimmer raced to 8 best times out of 8 events. For the month, Taylor dropped a total of 46.66 seconds with her biggest drop occurring in the 10 and Under Girls 200 yard Freestyle with a betterment of21.13 seconds. Taylor averaged a 7.38 percent improvement in...
Watch Missy Franklin GoPro trailer for series, ‘Finding Missy’ From NBCSports.com GoPro teased a look into the life of four-time Olympic champion Missy Franklin in an 88-second spot published on its YouTube channel Monday morning. The two-part series will be split into two April installments starting April 11, according to the trailer video’s YouTube description. More from the YouTube description... Click Here
