Author: mywaterworld

I am a masters swimmer based in Hobart, Australia
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High Intensity Training

After a hiatus to refresh the mind and body, mywaterworld.life resumes providing news and access to technical articles. Our aim is to assist members of the masters swimming movement, in this case, but not exclusively, the coaches to develop their knowledge of the various types of training that they can implemented with their swimmers.

Today the focus is on High Intensity Training (HIT) .  The scientific article by Gian Mario Migliaccio, PhD and Johnny Padulo, PhD published by Swimming Science titled the “Complete Guide to HIT (High Intensity Training for Swimmers)” is quite technical in nature.  (Unless you are completely familiar with terminology, mywaterworld.life suggests that readers take note of the various definitions within the article as they work their way through it.

In the article the authors discuss a broad range of aspects of HIT style training including the physiology that underpins it, its principles and benefits, the resulting adaptions and critically, and in a practical sense, how to construct HIT sessions.

This link takes you directly to the article or you can get to it directly from the mywaterworld.life Professional Development page.

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FINA Top Ten Ranked Tasmanian Club Relay Teams

With the FINA World Top Ten rankings for 2020 now published mywaterworld.life has compiled the rankings and has now published the story of the remarkable achievements on the world stage by Masters Swimming Tasmania clubs in 2020.

37 club relay teams have made the rankings with 80 club members contributing to the 2020 success. The story is in the mywaterworld.life news section.

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As usual if we have missed anything in our stories please let us know and we will update our content. Please fee free to share material on this site noting that the material is copyright.

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2020 FINA World Top Tens released

27 members of masters swimming clubs across Tasmania achieved 83 Individual FINA World Top Ten rankings in 2020.

A fabulous story and reward for Masters Swimming and Masters swimmers in Tasmania.

What a year 2020 it was for masters swimming across the world. Tragedies reported every day but now, seemingly with the ever increasing availability and access to vaccines, we are slowly moving towards some sort of normality (whatever that will eventually mean).

Tasmanians were indeed fortunate in 2020, especially as the Tasmanian’s managed to complete their complete championship racing season.

mywaterworld.life scoured the rankings and have published the story of those remarkable achievements on our News page. Read it there!

On Friday, 5 March mywaterworld.life will publish our roundup of the relay rankings. Stay tuned and remember to subscribe.

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Sue Mayne – Top Tasmanian National Record Breaker

In our latest news story, mywaterworld.life looks at the Tasmanian masters swimmers who have broken national records over the years. 

Top of the listing is Sue Mayne having set 69 national marks.

You can read all about the record breakers in our latest News story

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Amanda Duggan – Highest Ranked in Tasmania in 2020

Amanda Duggan of the Van Diemans MSC has topped the Fina points table for Tasmania with the top point score for 2020 of 738 points for her 400m freestyle time of 5:24.50

mywaterworld.life has published the top ten overall swims of 2020 in their 2nd news story of 2021. The top five ranked swims of 2020 for both men and women and by course have also been announced.

Full and comprehensive details are all in mywaterworld.life News.

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Wendy Winzenberg – MST’s top record breaker for 2020

Wendy Winzenberg from the Devonport Masters Swimming Club is Tasmania’s top record breaker for 2020.

In a season’s training disrupted by by the pandemic, Wendy set a total of 15 new marks, five of which were long course and 10 short course.

Showing her versatility, Wendy broke 10 freestyle records over distance from 50m to 1500m, 3 butterfly and 2 backstroke sprint records at distance of 25 and 50m.

There is a full roundup of MST’s 2020 records in mywaterworld.life‘s first story of 2021 in the news section.

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Drills – Backstroke – comprehensive and complete

This very comprehensive video is produced by SWIM FAST and features elite swimming coach Bill Sweetenham (former head coach of swimming teams from Australia, Britain, Hong Kong and Argentina). 

In this video, Bill takes you through sets of comprehensive backstroke drill progressions. mywaterworld.life advice is to use fins when practicing these drills. The drill progressions can be incorporated on request into the Technique and Drill sessions conducted by mywaterworld.life

You can do a screen dump of each of the slides used as part of the video clip (prt sc key and paste them into your own document).

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Drills – Breaststroke – a complete overview

Fantastic 5 minutes investment on breaststroke tips and drills with Rikke Møller Pedersen, the current women’s 200m breaststroke world record holder. Her 2:19.11 time still stands at the date of this post, having been set in 2013. 

There are great underwater shots that help explain the various concepts that Rikke talks about. These include specific elements of the stroke to focus on – a great streamline, correct hand position and arm stoke, head position, hip movement, eliminating leg drag and where to kick (to). Drills include sculling and stroke length.  Take some notes and practice in your next training session.

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Drills – Freestyle – Triple Touch Switch

This drill called the Triple Touch Switch (3TS).  A great drill by legendary coach  Bob Bowman.  You need to master some easier drills before you start practicing this one.

At the outset it is recommended that you practice this one with fins.  

The Tripple Touch Switch Freestyle Drill