Today has been a very strange day. On the way to practice today I got a call from one of my swimmers giving me the sad news about Alex passing away. The rest of the day I have been in shock. The death of Alex is a great loss in many ways. First of all ... ...
How making coffee ready in the evening changed the life of a client of mine. For all of us one little change in life can end up changing the results we make big time. One little thing can have a huge impact on our life. A little a thing as making the coffee ma...
In this video you can hear how World Record Holder Annamay Pierse tell how he gets ready for Canadian trials. It is all about relaxing! I also like that she also realize how much pressure there is on the coaches. It is almost never talked about. But havenÂ...
Today  Scottish Swimming Performance Coach Ian Wright at the University of Stirling posted these great words on his facebook wall: “The more I talk to athletes, the more convinced I become that the method of training is relatively unimportant. There are...
Now it is final. Ian Thorpe will not go London as a part of the Australian Swim Team after not even making it to the semifinal in 100 free With a time of 50.35 Thorpe is #21 and now out of the run for the Olympic games. After making the semi final in 200 free ...
 In this video Josh Davis interview three-time Olympian Ian Crocker (who don´t remember when he just went for it and made a fantastic world record in 100 fly?) Crocker is asked what advice he have to swimmers who are going to the Olympic trials. This meet wi...
The Danish news site Sporten.dk today has an article about Danish National Coach Paolus Wildeboer with the head line “This is how he made Denmark a super power” He has done a great job of bringing the best Danish swimmers the last difficult step to...
At SwimmersDaily.com  Rókur has gathered some good articles about the doping issue leading up to the London games. Basically the grand old man of anti-doping is pointing out that all these great resources now spend to test athletes for doping should have bee...
In Iceland there is a national fitness competition between schools every year.  See english intro page here For the events in this competition there are registered Icelandic records and especially for the girls it seem to be athletes coming from swimming ...
This time Rókur post a pics with swimmers here from Iceland – I have to repost that! ...
Thanks Alexander Dale Oen
The Little Habit That Changed a Life
Annamay Pierse say: Just Relax!
Great Words from A Great Coach
Thorpe Didn´t Make It
Awesome Coach Interviews: Ian Writght
Turn things upside down
Game of Inches
First Part of the British Olympic Team Selected.
Walking up the mountain
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