Category: FINA World Championships

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Daily Training Programs

mywaterworl.life is expanding its offering – this time by making a daily training program available on line.

You don’t need to be a subscriber to this site but we would like you to be. That way you can guarantee that you recieve a notification each time we post something new.

This is a sample program , the first one mywaterworld.life has published on its NEW training programs page.

The programs are part of an integrated season training plan which mywaterworld.life can tailor to your racing season.

The 2023 focus of the training plan is the 2022* FINA World Masters Swimming Championships, starting on the Japanese island of Kyushu on 2 August 2023.

* And if you are curious why the chahmpionshisp being held in 2023 are called the 2022 championships it is beacuse that is what FINA, soon to be called World Aquatics, calls them.

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Reaction Times and More on Pacing

How important and significant are reaction times?

Today we take a dive into the outcome of the Mens 4 x 50m freestyle relay at the World Aquatics Short Course Championships.

The margin between the 1st and 2nd placings was only 0.04 seconds – tighter margins are feasible, but not by much. Australia won this relay, not because it swam faster in the water, it didn’t, but because team members had better reaction times, by 0.09 seconds in total, than those of the Italians – and that was enough for the win.

Check out our story on the importance of reaction times and pacing in 400s.

FINA SC Champs 2022 Melb – Part 2Download
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Starts, Turns and Pacing

World Aquatics Championships provide a great opportunity to have a look at the difference in skills, and therefore the effectivness of the execution of race plans.

mywaterworld.life has put together this quick analysis of the Women’s 400 and Men’s 1500m freestyle events and the 4 x 100 freestyle relays.

FINA SC Champs 2022 MelbDownload

In none of the events were the diffences in reaction times and skills off the turns significant enough to affect the results in any meaningful ways.

The events featured are all longer events, or relays, but when you get down to the shorter ones (50s and 100s) , and especially as this is short coure racing, hundreths of a second make the diffrence between a podium finish and not even making a final. This equally applies in relays as there are multipel changeovers and corresponding reaction time. It is so important to make evey push-off and turn in training a skill development pririoty. And as for the starts and turns, try some box jumps and burpees.

Pacing for the distance events is critical so have a look at the tables and see how consistent the pacing needs to be – train that pacing.

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Plannning for 2023

2022 is quickly winding down so mywaterworld.life is turning its attention to a big 2023.

2023 will see the usual menu of club, state, regional and national championships and the, twice postponed, 2021 FINA World Masters Championships which are now back on the competition callendar commencing in Japan on 2 August 2023.

mywaterworld.life has just created a new 2023 Championship Preparation Planning page. That page provides masters swimmers with the entry point for planning their 2023 training and racing campaigns.

On that page, mywaterworld.life sets out the simple step (by contacting mywaterworld.life) that you can take to generate a season plan, based on your major and minor racing dates, and from where you wil be able to access to our 2023 resources.

For our Tasmanian friends, here is a snapshot of the initial high level level plan which you can download.

If you decide to print this high level plan, set your printer to print in “Landscape” mode.

TrainingPlan2023Download

Go to our planning page!

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Update on the 2022 FINA World Masters Championships

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.

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Nagoya

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.

You chould also check out this quirky video of Ten Things to do in Nagoya.

And now that the World Masters Games have been postponed (again) you have more time to travel around. Even more reason to compete at the FINA worlds.

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Heading to Japan for the 2022 FINA World Masters Championships

A guide to Hiroshima

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.

As usual, if you find mywaterworld.life a useful resource, then please subscribe and, if you have any information that you think could be shared, please contact us.

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MYWATERWORLD.LIFE awakens from its covid* induced slumber

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 back and 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