With only 7 weeks to go till 2023 the time has come to start serious preparations for the next competitive year.
mywarterworld.life is based in Hobart, Tasmania so our preparations and those of our other Australian swimming friends will slowly shift the focus to the 2023 competitive callendar.
In 2023, Masters Swimming Tasmanian will be hosting the Australian Masters Swimming Championships (18-22 April) in Hobart and, as a run-in, their own championhips will be held on 18 and 19 February, also in Hobart at the Doone Kennedy Hobart Aquatic Centre. The FINA World Championships are now also only 37 weeks away and there is a section on this website devoted to those championships.
In the meantime, and now is the time to start serious preparations for the 2023 competition year. If you would like some assistance in preparing you overall plan then just contact me, Maciej Slugocki, from here.
Let me know any competition dates and I will incorporate them into that overall plan.
mywaterworld.life has now prepared an introductory dry land training program.
Its easy, straightforward and on day 1 will take you less than three minutes to complete. The program has a 15 second rest break between each of the exercises. On day one you will only need to do three – 10 push-ups, 10 squats and a 30 second plank. If needs must, then start with less repetitions. Consistency is your golden key!
Interested in finding out about the full introductory 1st 30 days then its all on the NEW Dry Land Training page. From the menu you can find it under Technical.
As always, check with your medical expert on the suitability of these exercises for you.
The vaccination rate for Australia’s population aged 16 and over has now reached over 80% fully vaccinated (two shots). On a whole of population basis, the rate has reached 75.3% (1 shot) and 68.2% fully vaccinated. Vaccination rates of increase in Australia not yet flattening out so the rates will improve even further.
As a comparison, the whole of population vaccination rates for Japan are 78.5% and 74.7%, while for France the rates are 76.1% and 68.5% respectively. Australia’s rates are now rapidly growing and scaling the world rankings.
With travel restrictions starting to ease, mywaterworld.life now includes links to Australian and USA Travel Advisory information on its Guide and Tips for Japan page.
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.
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.
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.
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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