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Swimming training: methods to improve swimming speed
By applying new research courtesy of fluid dynamics and supercomputers, every swimmer can swim faster
David Walliam's Endurance Swim Coach Reveals All
Endurance Training and Mental Toughness for Long Distance Swimming
Strength Training Program Part 1: Competition Preparation
The best Weight Training Exercises to prepare for competition
Swimmers affected by body clock
Circadian rhythms affect swimming performance
Sports News: Aquatic Plyometrics
The Benefits of Aquatic Plyometrics
how to train triathlon
How To Train For A Triathlon : Your complete strength and conditioning programme
triathlon swim
Triathlon Swim: Swim slower for faster triathlon times
sports psychology article
Sports psychology article: Beset by 'Olympic phobia' and lacking in focus and toughness: a sport psychologist's damning verdict on the underperforming GB swim team
Triathlon Swimming Techniques
Triathlon swimming techniques - Drafting for triathlon swimmers
How Good is the 'Bod Pod'?
Body Composition - Fat Measurement: How Good is the 'Bod Pod'?
Swimming technique: stroke training to improve swimming times
Swimming Training: An overview of the basics of technique for all strokes and specific training needs
The psychology of swimming: how swimmers approach training and competition
The importance of paying attention in sport
Swimming training: why high-intensity training is more productive for swimmers than high-volume training
Traditional high-volume model of training will NOToptimise performance
Strength training: gym exercises to improve swimming performance
Swimmers need to follow a programme of exercises that replicate their actions in the water as closely as possible.
Nutritional supplements: your nutritional strategy should be planned in detail as part of your overall training programme
Look, listen and think before you take supplements
Post workout burn
Post Workout Burn: After you've finished a workout, your body is not finished working.
Swimmers - Is fatter faster?
Swimmers - Is Fatter Faster?
eating disorder athletes
Eating Disorder Athletes
veronique billat | exercise research:
Veronique Billat - Exercise Research
Exercise-induced diarrhoea
Exercise-induced Diarrhoea
Motivation
Motivation: Here's how to design a self-determined training programme that will drive you to new heights
swimming techniques | swimming training
Swimming Techniques - Training: Although super-high training volumes are the rule rather than the exception for swimmers, there' s solid evidence that these heavy loads may be counter-productive.
Lactate threshold: 2-2 t-20
Lactate Threshold: 2-2 T-20: Since I first started attaching a fairly specific intensity to lactate-threshold workouts about 10 years ago, the whole idea of threshold training seems to have gained in popularity.
Ginseng
Ginseng, which has been used as a tonic and restorative for over 5000 years in China, is one of the most popular new nutritional supplements for athletes, but research into ginseng's effects on athletic performance has yielded ambiguous results.
Blood cholesterol levels
Blood Cholesterol Levels: Swimming sometimes gets a bad rap. Although the sport provides a fine cardiovascular workout and bolsters overall aerobic capacity, some studies have shown that regular swimming doesn't reduce - and may even increase - body fatness. Also, the effect of swimming on blood-cholesterol levels has been uncertain.
Endorphins
Endorphins: Weight trainers miss out on the "runner's high"
Training | recovery 1
How a spoonful of sugar helps keep your muscle protein from going down
Training | recovery 2
How a spoonful of sugar helps keep your muscle protein from going down
Sequencing in Training 1
Sequencing In Training 1: Get your training in order: how sequencing determines your overall fitness
Sequencing in Training 2
Sequencing In Training 2: Get your training in order: how sequencing determines your overall fitness
Time-splitting and race results
Time-splitting And Race Results: If it makes sense to run the second half faster than the first, then why do the Kenyans
go out so fast?
tapering | the importance of tapering
TApering: What exactly happens inside your body when you taper - and why you should do it more often
Genetics and Performance
Genetics And Performance: Now science is getting to the long and the short of how genes influence performance
Interval Training 1
Interval Training 1: How to strike and sustain VO2max gold, and other benefits of high-quality workouts
Interval Training 2
Interval Training 2: How to strike and sustain VO2max gold, and other benefits of high-quality workouts
Deep water running
Deep Water Running: When your training should land you in deep water
Menstruation & exercise
Why 'the curse' is often lifted for female athletes
Tapering for competition 1
Tapering For Competition 1: Why fast, exponential decay beats step reduction when preparing for a peak performance
Longevity
Longevity: Exercise helps you to live longer, but how important is intensity?
Marathon carbohydrates
Marathon Carbohydrates: Which works best before and during a marathon: carbs in liquid or solid form?
MCTs
Why MCTs alone don't work. It's important to bear in mind that the MCTs had to be ADDED to carbohydrate in order to shore up performance; the MCT-only drink produced terrible results.
Improving performance
If you want to improve your performance times, turn up the intensity and turn down the volume.
Stress fracture
Stress Fracture: One in ten of all sports injuries is a stress fracture. Here's how to break the pattern..
Creatine Effects
Creatine Effects: A man who is showing athletes how to use advances in sports nutrition to produce dramatic improvements in their performances.
Exercise | pregnancy
Exercise | Pregnancy: Is it safe to exercise when you're pregnant? Here's what science has to say
freestyle swimming techniques
Freestyle swimming techniques: Only the development of swimming flumes in the 1970s allowed tests to be performed which compared to those being carried out on such activities as cycling and running.
Hand paddles
Hand Paddles: Considerable attention has been paid to the possible advantages of using hand paddles during training.
Swim-benches
Swim-benches: Another mechanical ergogenic aid to training is the swim-bench.
Mood states
Mood States: High-level college swimmers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the States were studied for a research project published in 1991.
Conditioning
Conditioning: Next to cross-country skiing, running is the best type of fitness training for all sports.
Distance running & testosterone
Distance Running & Testosterone: Can distance running determine the sex of your children
swimming pools medical hazards
A quick look at the medical hazards of swimming in pools.
Glycaemic index
Glycaemic Index: Things mother forgot to tell you about the glycaemic index of your food - and how it influences your training
Personal best training program
Personal Best Training Program: Moderate starts, consistent pacing, and negative splits can carry you to new PBs.
muscle building
Muscle building: Squats, leg press or knee extensions - which exercise is best for the quads?
overtraining symptom | rest
All work and no play makes Jack an underperforming athlete.
rugby league training | strength | power
Rugby League Training - Strength And Power: Professional Rugby League is a demanding sport, combining raw aggression and subtle playing skill in equal measure.
Quantifying intensity
Quantifying Intensity: How to use heart rate to quantify your fitness training intensity.
Tapering and performance
Tapering And Performance: In order to be the best in whatever swimming discipline, competitive athletes and their coaches are constantly seeking new and effective methods to improve performance.
Fluid replacement
Fluid Replacement: Are sports drinks suitable for interval workouts as well?
Self-diagnosis
Self-diagnosis: Your workouts can reveal what's wrong with your health.
thoraric pain | shoulder injuries
Case study: a swimmer with left-sided thoracic pain and shoulder pain.
Running injury
Running injury: Pity the poor runner he'll have arthritis when he's older. Or will he?
Cross Training Workouts
Cross Training Workouts
Female and male performance times
Female and male athletes seem to respond to training in a comparable manner. As the quantity or intensity of training increases, aerobic capacity (V02max) shoots upward, body fat tends to decrease, and performance improves, regardless of gender.
emergency training | cycling training
If you need to get into competitive shape fast, follow the example of these South African cyclists.
Physical activity
Just how good is exercise for you? Damn good. In addition to improving your fitness and giving you more energy to carry out your everyday activities, regular exercise can limit your chances of suffering from a number of deadly - and not-so-deadly - diseases.
Use it or lose it
If you want to keep well as you get older, adopt the " use it or lose it" philosophy.
Use it or lose it
If you want to keep well as you get older, adopt the " use it or lose it" philosophy.
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