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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.

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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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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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 2^nd 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.

mywaterworld.life has published a story on the 6,000^th record Masters Swimming Tasmania record and that honor belongs to Brent Walker.

In the first and only heat of the 1500m freestyle at the Masters Swimming Tasmania, Short Course Long Distance Championships contested on 12 December 2020, a remarkable 8 Tasmanian records were broken by 4 competitors over distances of 400, 800 and 1500m. 

mywaterworld.life had to do some analysis as working out which was the 6000^th record was just not straightforward – same heat, various age groups, strokes and intermediate distances and all in the same cauldron of competition.

We had to do a bit of thinking and analysis and the complete story is published in our news section.

How good it is to watch an international swimming competition courtesy of the International Swimming League.

We have seen eight new world record marks set in ISL 2020, great presentation of the meets, incredibly good photography and a team based competition. Records are subject to ratification by FINA.

ISL includes innovative events such as the skins racing format – 8 competitors with 4 eliminated, a further two eliminated in the next race and finally the last 2 remaining race head to head in the final. Rounds of the skin event are held every three minutes.

The stroke of the skins race is picked by the winners of the women’s 400 medley relay and the same for the men. Great to see stokes other than freestyle swum in a skins event.

SWIMMING FAST – WORLD RECORDS

Name	Country	Team	Event	Time
Caeleb Dressel	US	Cali Condors	100m Butterfly	47.78
Caeleb Dressel	US	Cali Condors	100m Individual Medley	49.28
Caeleb Dressel	US	Cali Condors	50m Freestyle	20.16
Adam Peaty	UK	London Roar	100m Breaststroke	55.49
Adam Peaty	UK	London Roar	100m Breaststroke	55.41
Kliment Kolesnikov	RU	Energy Standard	100m Backstoke	48.58
Kira Toussaint	NL	London Roar	50m Backstroke	25.60
Women	US	Cali Condors	400 Medley Relay	3:44.52

A full listing of all results is on the ISL Results web page.

In Australia you can catch the ISL on the 7Plus app. As it is a team competition, each of the two day sessions are called a “Match” by ISL and are all on the 7Plus app.

A further ISL format innovation is being introduced to address the need for a distance event – the 800 free.

The proposed format includes three checkpoints – at the 100m 400m and 800m marks. Contestants will win points at each of the checkpoints which has both jackpot times and an event cutoff time. The details of the points system are set out toward the end of the official ISL announcement.
– ISL Trials new race ahead of season 2020 finale – 19 November 2020

Today mywaterworld launches its Professional Development resources page. Our first technical reference is to a paper by Brent S. Rushall, PhD on sprint training. Its relevance is far wider than its title as it covers a vastly broader area including technique. The Conditioning section of the paper sets out the parameters for the design of ultra short sprint training set. Sprint – Ultra Short Race Pace Training : Training for 50-m races

Heard the one about someone “swimming fast” and silently wondered what was meant by that comment? mywaterworld looks at that type of observation in a 2 part story.

In Part 1, consideration is given to exploring what may be meant by that observation. We also take a look at swimming speeds to understand what is actually “fast” and consider the need for a frame of reference for that type of observation.

In Part 2 we look at the FINA points system, how it works and allows us to understand how fast someone is actually swimming within a frame of reference.

Members of masters swimming clubs from Tasmania have competed at FINA world masters swimming championships with the first podium finish in 1990 at the 3rd edition (as FINA calls them) of the championships held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

You can read all the details in our podium finishers roundup.