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The Art of Swim Parenting By Gary Hall, Sr. The Race Club Blog, June 2015 Being a swim parent is not easy. If it were, we would likely have 2 million registered USA Swimming members, rather than half a million. Swim parents have to be unselfish, dedicated, loving, committed and invested to help their children succeed in the sport. In this day and age, how many parents will sit on a hot bleacher or in a chlorine filled natatorium or behind a starting block, timing all weekend, for the pleasure...
Team USA Opens World University Games on Saturday Forty-seven Team USA swimmers, including three 2012 Olympians and 29 members of the USA Swimming National Team, are slated to open competition Saturday in Gwangju, South Korea, at the 2015 World University Games. The Nambu University International Aquatics Center will host the pool competition Saturday through July 10, while the 10-kilometer open water races will take place in the Jangseong Lake Regatta on July 11. Prelim sessions in the pool begin at 8:30 a.m. locally (7:30 p.m. EDT the previous day),...
How To Set Up for Success at a Big Meet By Russell Mark, USA Swimming National Team High Performance Consultant With championship season for the US National Team right around the corner, it’s hard not to think about what has made the best US athletes so successful over all these years. Having the fortunate vantage point of being integrated with the US team at competitions, here’s three observations from the last three Olympic Games and four World Championships that you can use as you get ready for your own end-of-summer...
Happy #TBT Throw Back Thursday! Anyone remember these girls from back in the day? All three are Mom's now!
0 inShare 1 The Swimmer's Guide to Punching Fear of Failure in the Face Olivier Poirier-Leroy is a former national level swimmer based out of Victoria, BC. In feeding his passion for swimming, he has developed YourSwimBook, a powerful log book and goal setting guide made specifically for swimmers. This question isn’t meant to be rhetorical. Considering it you might perhaps feel a little uncomfortable, realizing that there is something very real and very intimidating standing between you and feeling like you could fearlessly chase down your swimming...
7 Things Smart Swimmers Need to Stop Doing Life, like our swimming, is largely a series of habits. The way we put on our suit. How many arm swings we do before we jump in. The attitudes and thoughts we have when good and bad things happen. The sneaky thing about habits is that once they are engrained, they require very little thought. Do you have to stop to think about how to walk? Or how to brush your teeth? Or how to swim freestyle? This “automation” is...
Historic Swimming Moment 53 Weeks until Trials (as of Sunday) In 1981, Mary T. Meagher established world records in the 200 fly (2:05.96) and the 100 fly (57.93) at the U.S. Long Course National Championships in Brown Deer, Wisconsin, both of which lasted nearly two decades. Her 200 fly time was rated as the fifth-greatest single event performance of all time by Sports Illustrated magazine. Marys 100m record was broken by Jenny Thompson (U.S.A.) in 1999 and her 200m record fell to Susie ONeill (Australia) a year later. Video from...
Protein and Vegetarian Swimmers By Chris Rosenbloom, PhD, RDN, CSSD Recently, a swimmer sent me an email about her coach’s concern about her choice to be a vegetarian. She chose a vegetarian diet for “ethical reasons,” but her coach told her she needed to eat meat to be a competitive swimmer. I don’t want to contradict her coach’s advice, but I responded that what she needed was the nutrients in meat, not necessarily the meat. Don’t get me wrong, I honor everyone’s dietary choices, and you can eat a healthful...
What Champions Know About Nutrition By Jill Castle MS, RDN Swimmers want to do their best. Not only that, they want to win. Many young swimmers work hard to get to the next level. They log endless hours in the pool, work on their stroke technique, and even tweak their eating to get the most out of their bodies and their performance. Many champion swimmers know that nutrition is an essential part of their success. In other words, they understand how important food is to their performance results. Here are...
