FINA Launches a Sports Medicine Section on Swimming, Diving, and Water Polo
Friday January 16, 2009
The world governing body for aquatic sport, FINA (Fédération Internationale de Natation), has a
sports medicine section on their website. It is "designed to provide team physicians and allied medical support staff with up to date medical and scientific information to guide their daily care of the aquatic athlete" - but swimmers, coaches, and parents will get some good information here, too. There are only a few articles currently listed:
- Talent Identification Programmes
- 2008 Olympic Games Medical & Doping Control Programmes
- A Safe But Demanding Sport
- Doctor On Deck
- Optimising Performance & Promoting Health
- Sport Supplements In Swimming
Thursday January 15, 2009
Avoid sore eyes - make sure the
goggles you are about to buy fit with this simple test.
Tuesday January 13, 2009
To learn how to get more out of each stroke, play a game of Golf! This simple swimming drill will help swimmers develop better swimming technique, improved efficiency, and sense of pace.
Here's how...
Sunday January 11, 2009
Many things limit how fast a swimmer can swim, from swim technique to fitness to hand and foot size to a swimmer's natural bone and joint structure. Some athletes will have limits on technique because they don't bend certain ways - their range of motion is physically limited by joint structure. That does not mean that those swimmers can't get faster, but they may never be as fast as swimmers that have a differing joint structure. There are
several swimming technique skills you can work on to get faster in the water.