It is only tentative at this stage, but looks like this is going to be the schedule for the Masters Championships.
Lots of water to flow under the bridge and possibly some heavy seas before these championships are up and running, starting with making the program final and the entry system being opened.
The promising signs are that the organizing committee is in the process of getting the medals designed and has called for volunteers for the championships. Japan is now also slowly opening up to international travel with Japan commencing to accept foreign nationals coming to the country for business trips, study abroad or technical training starting on Monday, 8 November (Japan Times.) Still to come of course is news of when other visitors to the country will be able to enter Japan.
The current situation with vaccinations in Japan is that 73.6% of the population is fully vaccinated while 78.3% have had their first shot. The comparative percentages at 4 November for the USA are 58.3 % and 67.7%, Australia 66.8% and 75.0% and France 68.3% and 76.1%
As for the numbers of new infections in Japan, on 6 November there were 230 with a 7 day average of 201.
It’s looking very favorable for the championships … at this stage.
How good is it to get first hand insights into what it took to set a new men’s 100 Freestyle World Short Course Record – Congratulations Kyle Chalmers!!!!
Out in 21.40, (0.32 under world record pace) and back in 23.44 for a new world record mark of 44.84 Wow!!
Thanks as well to Brett Hawke for the interview.
Kyle has been on a journey of racing over the past couple of months, maximizing that imense talent, and racing like he has never raced before. One of the keys to that world record was Kyle’s racing schedule, week in and week out, and the opportunity to implement what he practices in real racing conditions.
I his own words, Kyle has “ finally started to figure it out”. The constant racing enabled Kyle to work out and implement what he had to do to execute a great swim for that world record and execute he did.
The fruits of the work Kyle has put in can be seen in the break out off his start, the “execution into the walls”, leg speed in the turns, “pumping five fly kicks off the wall”, stroke rate maintenance, and hitting his goal time at the 50m split.
Yes, the importance of the work off the wall. In the interview Kyle maintains that this is still “an area [he] needs to improve on to be the best in the world”. He also speaks about the role of his coach in pushing the skills aspect ”day-in, day-out”. Kyle also talks about his breathing pattern – shows how individual that is.
Check out Brett Hawke interviewing Kyle Chalmers about his short course 100m freestyle world record.
Travelling to internatonal events like the 2022 FINA World Masters Championships provides an opportunity to explore Japan. Research and planning is required for this adventure and mywaterworld.life likes to share the fruits of its research.
Touring around needs to be accompanied by a bit of training, especially if you are in Japan prior to the championships.
Why Nagoya? – well there are many resons – one being that it is on the bullet train route between Tokyo and Fukuoka . Why not stop and have a look around and while there you can still do your training.
The city has a rich history and is a major centre for industry and commerce (think Toyota). While there, check out the incredible railway museum, one of Japan’s best amusement parks and of course Nagoya castle.
mywaterworld.life has out together an information page, including the usual pool guide, which you can find on the Nagoya page.
Planning a trip overseas to FINA World Masters Swimming Championships provides an opportunity to visit new places, learn about the culture of your fellow swimming competitors and the country the championships are being staged in, indulge in the local cuisine and visit some special places.
Driven by the need to find pools to train in, mywaterworld.life started compiling material about a number of cities in Japan. That initial research then led to the idea of sharing that material with those that are thinking of heading to Japan and Fukuoka in particular.
The first city of focus, for a reason that has now escaped, was Hiroshima, so check out what mywaterworld.life has put together about that city.
The next city that mywaterworld.life will look at will be Nagoya.
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Hello everyone, the Australian Smartraveller website has just (11:54 am 20 October EDST) released its update and advice about obtaining your International COCID-19 Vaccination Certificate.
Australia and Australians are now gearing up for OS travel so it is important to be prepared. Don’t leave it to the last minute.
The first thing that you need is to be double vaccinated as many, if not all, international destinations will require a proof of vaccination before they let you in.
Who knows what sort of travel insurance will be available, but the best way to provide yourself with some cover at least, and some protection for others, is to be fully vaccinated.
Once you are fully vaccinated, or even in anticipation, check out the advice on Smartraveller.
After a break of a few months, mywaterworld.life has awakened from its slumber to see the world, with our Australian eyes, opening up to us. We sat here, quietly inactive, as much of Australia was effectively in lockdown and we were overcome by a miasma of despondency and wondering when we would return to some level of normalcy. After the silence for the last few months, we are now back up and running and enthusiastic again.
Over the next few weeks we will start energising you with new posts, news items and a renewed focus on training. Australians are slowly coming out of lockdowns in a number of States and aquatic centres, with both outdoor and indoor pools, are progressively opening as well.
Australia’s vaccination rates are sky rocketing so the evening sky has turned pink and we are getting ready to go. We are now scaling the heights of vaccination rates and our most populous state, New South Wales has announced that it’s opening its border to international travel from 1 November 2021*.
As an opener, mywaterworld.life has set up a new page devoted to providing news and updates about the next FINA Masters World Championships. You can check out the page from here or the menu link.
It’s great to be backand preparing new content!
Nothing to worry about on this count. No covid-19 at mywaterworld.life. We are double jabbed and have been since 9 August 2021. We hope you are fully vaccinated as well and looking after the safety and health of your friends and family as well as everyone else that you come into contact with.
[Editor’s Note – always read the fine print as at the moment (16 October 2021) it only applies to Australians that are fully vaccinated and landing in Sydney from 1 November. For definitive details, check the Australian Department of Home Affairs Covid-19 website for the latest provisions. https://covid19.homeaffairs.gov.au/travel-restrictions
Pt 1 – Planning for the 2022 FINA Masters World Aquatic Championships
Time has a habit of flying past, often at a completely unhelpful pace, and before you know, it will be time to leave for the 2022 FINA World Masters Aquatic Championships.
While the program for the Championships has not yet been announced, the dates have – 31 May to 9 June, so now is the time to start preparing.
With less than a year to go, the first step is to develop a training plan which focuses on your events. For that focus and based on previous schedules, here are the anticipated event dates.
Anticipated program of events for the 2022 FINA Masters World Championships.
With those days and events in mind, here are mywaterworld.life’s first steps for designing that plan.
Initially, and in conjunction with your coach if you have one, you will need to identify and incorporate the following into your plan:
Dates of holidays and family commitments;
Events you will compete in;
A listing of your weaknesses in technique and conditioning for your events;
Elements of training that you dislike or avoid; and
Identify your favourite elements of training. This is to ensure that when you design your plan you are not unconsciously incorporating a bias into your training regime.
There will be dates of competitions that are as yet unknown, so your eventual pan will need to be flexible enough to adjust for them.
Stay tuned and subscribe to mywaterworld.life for the specifics of planning over the next couple of weeks. Your planning will need to incorporate periodic recovery weeks. You will need to match events such as birthdays and swim meets into those recovery weeks. The training cycle in its general and specific training phases is based on two, three or four-week rotations so it will be easy to incorporate important family and holiday dates into your plan.
As part of your planning process, you should schedule a general check-up appointment with your GP to address any medical issues you may have and request a blood screening. Make sure also that you also organise your vaccinations, both covid and flu.
So now you have some homework to do! The next step will be to put together that plan. The way forward is to Subscribe to mywaterworld.life
During the last week or so the Professional Development material on mywaterworld.life has been expanded by the inclusion of two new pages covering Post Exercise Recovery and Training to Achieve an Outcome.
The material for post exercise recovery comes from the American Council of Exercise. The paper covers areas including the physiology of post-exercise recovery, energy pathways, strategies to enhance recovery, the role post training nutrition plays, alternative methods of, and misunderstandings about, post-exercise recovery including the role of free radicals and antioxidants, and the practical translation of exercise, nutrition and training recovery research into practice. Recovery
The revised section on Training to Achieve an Outcome currently only covers two types of training – Ultra-Short Race Pace Interval Training (USRPT) and High Intensity Training. Both provide their own unique insights into intensive training sets. The design of high intensity sets, including what are commonly called lactate tolerance and lactate production sets, are critical to the development of racing skills. Training to Achieve an Outcome.
In May this year (2021) Masters Swimming Australia conducted a national Mental Health Awareness Month. Mental health however is not an issue just for a month – awareness and mutual support needs a 24/7 focus.
We are all leading our lives in a world of great uncertainty. Just as our individual lives were starting to get back to some stability and certainty in Australia, we now see the Australian State of Victoria in a 14 – day shutdown which commenced at 11:59pm Thursday 27 May 2021 and may even need to be extended further.
These uncertainties and lockdowns can easily crush personal ambitions and goals, but only if we let them. Staying positive is always the best way to face each and every day.
It is easy to understand, based on our shared experiences over the last fifteen months or so, how quickly our lives can be adversely impacted and how dramatically and rapidly our swimming and training routines can change or even be completely denied to us.
The positive is that vaccination numbers around the world are steadily rising and without doubt, notwithstanding vaccine hesitancy, will dramatically improve by the end of 2021. It is also not unrealistic to believe that by late 2021 or early 2022 we will have access to a range of new and additional medical enhancements including new antiviral drugs and rapid response medicines, some of which are already in the human trial stages.
Even now (3 June) there is discussion that fully vaccinated Australians may be provided some relief, all be it minor and subject to health advice, from the quarantine rules currently in place. Trials of new control measures for travelling into and out of Australia may even commence this August, if not earlier.
Our new “normal” lives now need to adapt to living with Covid-19. There are things that we can all do! We need to heed and adopt safety advice from our public health authorities, get vaccinated as quickly as we can, and we need to stay positive.
Staying positive means preparing for the future, maintaining, or adapting our goals and ambitions, or even establishing new ones, and putting plans in place to make those goals achievable.
The next FINA world championships are scheduled for June 2022. The currently proposed dates are May 31 (Tue) – June 9 (Thu).
It is no use waiting for certainty and final confirmations of dates. By the time certainty materialises it will be far too late to start planning and preparing.
If competing at those championships was on your radar, then NOW is the time to start planning. Plans can always be adapted but first up there is a need to design a plan. Get started and if you need some assistance in that planning then you can easily contactmywaterworld.life
While the program for the 2022 FINA Masters has not yet been announced, the dates for the championships have (see above). Next week mywaterworld.life will have a look at a possible program for the championships and share some tips with you on how to set up your plan.
In the meantime, stay healthy and positive and think about some key dates for your plan.
The second story in our lookback as Masters Swimming Championships across Australia has now been published on the mywaterworld.lifeNews page. It is also available as a direct download.
Highlights of the meet were the two FINA World records by John Cocks, five Australian records, eleven NSW records, two Victorian records and a Tasmanian one.
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