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How to choose a good Swimming Channel Swimming Coach

Choosing a good coach is crucial for your personal or professional development.

In my opinion, a good coach is like a good doctor (yes, I will compare a coach with a doctor, since both specialties are related to the body and mind of athletes, and by often a coach should understand more than a doctor in a narrow specialization).
Here are some guidelines to help you find the right coach for your needs:

Define Your Goals:

After-drop is real (and how to deal with it)

Simon Griffiths discusses the realities of “after-drop” and how swimmers can manage it.

If you have spent any time hanging around open water swimmers you may have heard the term “after-drop”. If you’ve done any swimming in cool water, you may have experienced it. For the uninitiated, after-drop refers to the decline in your core body temperature after you have got out of the water.

België - Vier plekken waar je gratis in openlucht kan zwemmen

In Scandinavië, Schotland, IJsland en de Baltische Staten is wildzwemmen gewoon toegelaten, tenzij er expliciet staat dat het verboden is. The right to roam, zo noemen ze het daar, een basisrecht op bewegingsvrijheid. Maar waar exact moet je in België zijn om te zwemmen in de natuur?

Zwemjuf Linda leert kinderen veilig zwemmen in de zee

Zwemmen in de zee kan prachtig zijn, mits je dat veilig doet. Daarom geeft zwemjuf Linda Damme ieder jaar een aantal zwemlessen in open zee aan haar leerlingen. Afgelopen week was het zover. Met een wetsuit aan, een badmuts op en een zwemboei rond de middel, namen de kinderen een frisse duik in de Oosterschelde.

Voeden tijdens een oversteek

Op de Facebook pagina van de ACNEG vond ik een video die fraai de techniek demonstreert hoe te voeden bij een marathon-oversteek.

Heerlijk weer dat weer! Tips voor zwemmen in het buitenwater

De zomer was al begonnen, maar nu lijkt het weer ook meer op de zomer. De zwemliefhebbers die graag in buitenwater zwemmen kijken dan ook alweer uit naar een verfrissende duik in open water. Maar hoe aanlokkelijk het ook klinkt, het is zeker niet zonder gevaar en echt anders dan zwemmen in het zwembad. Hierbij een paar tips en wil je je het hele jaar door voorbereiden op zwemmen in buitenwater? Ook in het zwembad kun je volop trainen.

Reus Sport Kids Swim 2023

Datum: 
zaterdag, 9 september, 2023 - 11:30

Nog iets te jong voor de grote oversteek maar wel helemaal gek van zwemmen? Doe dan mee aan onze Kids Swim gesponsord door Reus Sport Den Helder en ervaar hoe het voelt om te zwemmen in zee en als een heuse held onthaald te worden bij de finish!

In groepjes van 20 zwemmers zul je afhankelijk van je leeftijd 1 of meerdere rondjes om de boei heen zwemmen die zo’n 50 meter van het strand te water ligt. Ren jij daarna als eerste van jouw groep onder de finishboog door?

4-way English Channel swimmer Sarah Thomas talks cold water tolerance

It’s the first Saturday of October, at 6:15 in the morning. It’s still dark out, with the faintest of light creeping in over the eastern horizon. I’ve arrived at the Gravel Pond, where most of my open water training over the last decade has occurred, hoping to sneak in one last long swim before the pond closes for the season. I have no distance goals today; I’m just aiming to swim until 10 am, when the session closes.

The nighttime air temperatures are hovering around 37 degrees F (2.7C). The water temp is still warm enough, right at 58F (14.4C). The temperature contrast is causing a fine layer of mist over the water, as if the air is struggling to steal the remaining warmth from the water below. The skies overhead are crisp and clear, with a nearly full moon just starting her descent toward the foothills to the west.

A day at the beach: ‘The shark did a big lap around me. That’s when I saw my fin in its mouth’

When a great white shark stole a flipper from freediver Callum Stewart, he felt terror, curiosity and a deep love for his family – all in the space of 30 seconds.

A week before a great white shark took my diving fin, I went diving with nurse sharks on the New South Wales south coast. It was epic. I’ve always really liked sharks and was interested in seeing them in the wild. From what I’ve been reading and hearing, sharks are really not interested in attacking humans.

Open water skill: Superman buoy turns

Even if you never want to enter a swimming event, learning how to turn quickly and efficiently around a buoy is a fun and useful skill to learn. If you do have swimming events planned, a well-executed buoy turn will not only give you a faster swim but also make you feel more confident and look really professional!

Buoy turns can be one of the most daunting parts of a swim event or triathlon. Like a mass start, they are feared for being like an aquatic rugby scrum as swimmers vie to get round the buoy as quickly as possible. 

Should you stay in cold water for one minute per degree of water temperature?

‘One minute per degree’ is a rule often touted among cold-water swimmers, but is it a reliable guideline? Heather Massey and Mike Tipton of the Extreme Environments Laboratory at the University of Plymouth investigate.

There is an inverse relationship between water temperature and rate of cooling (the colder the water, the faster your tissues cool). So, the idea that in-water duration is reduced as water temperature cools in winter and spring is not a bad starting point.

But the nature of the relationship between water temperature and deep body cooling rate varies hugely between individuals.

How to swim safely with weeds

“You will get dragged down by weeds!” Just one of many anxious thoughts that might go through a swimmer’s mind before taking the plunge. Simon Griffiths has your myth busting guide to swimming safely with weeds.

There is something about being in open water that nags on your subconscious. However comfortable you are in the water, and however competent you are at swimming, somewhere in the dark recess of your mind is a voice that says you don’t really belong here.

The most important body parts to keep warm when swimming

If you want to perform at your best in the water, you need to keep warm. Here, Professor Mike Tipton highlights the body parts that it's most important to insulate

To continue swimming in open water through winter safely and comfortably, you’ll need to make sure you take measures to keep your body warm. But what are the most important body parts to keep toasty while swimming in cold water? Professor Mike Tipton explains…

If you understand the underpinning physiology, then everything else will make sense. You can’t lump gloves, boots and hats in together, as they do different jobs!

10 ways to tackle cold water according to famous ice swimmer Ram Barkai

Swimming in cold, open water has become a popular hobby for thrill-seekers. From the frigid waters of Cape Town’s Atlantic seaboard to the icy dams of the Karoo, South Africa offers many opportunities for a refreshing dip.

The Obscure Ultra-Endurance Sport Women Are Quietly Dominating

In 1985, Nature published a paper arguing that women would outrun men in marathons by 2000. Like so many other things that were supposed to happen “in the year 2000,” this prediction never came to fruition. Women’s finishing times were indeed improving rapidly as compared to the rate of men’s improvements, but that was likely because women were so much newer to distance running as compared to men. As science writer Rose Eveleth has explained, that Nature paper “extrapolated linearly from a few points of early data. (Its conclusions are mocked in many entry-level statistics courses.)” In 2016, the fastest men runners are still about 12 percent faster than the fastest women, and most exercise scientists doubt that women will ever outperform men at the elite marathon level.

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