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European Masters Swimming Championships*

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Pool Racing starts Sunday, 28 August.

If you are on the Australian east coast, remember the 8hr time difference. With racing starting in Rome at say 9:00 am, that equates to a 5:00 pm start on the Aus. east coast.

Five thousand competitors – now that is a sizeable meet so plenty of racing, starting with the 800s on Sunday. You can get the full racing schedule from here.

The championships are being conducted in two pools – the Centro Federale UNIPOL BluStadium di Pietralata and the Stadio Olimpico del Nuoto – takes some of us back to the 1960 Rome Olympics as that is the main site of the refurbished complex for these championships.

Racing is being live-streamed from both the competition pools.
Stadio Olympico – live stream and schedule
Stadio di Pietralata – live stream and schedule

Both pages have event and access to heat lists so you can follow your European friends or check out the form of your competitors.

If you spot something interesting that you think mywaterworld.life should share about these championships , please contact us.

*The image used in this post is from a screen capture from the official championship site.

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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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New – Training to Achieve an Outcome and Post Exercise Recovery

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.

You can access our new pages directly from the mywaterworld.life Professional Development page.

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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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Virtual Covid 2020 Polish Masters Swimming Championships (unofficial)

Huge congratulations to Gosia Serbin, a Polish masters swimmer, who took it upon herself to organise an unofficial 2020 Masters Swimming Championship for Poland following their cancellation.

Great to see such an initiative by Gosia.  It would be fantastic to see meets like this being staged in other parts of the world (not saying that there aren’t). 

Now is the time for national, regional and local masters organisations to do the same.  Masters swimmers are crying out for incentives to train and the staging of virtual competitions provides just that incentive. 

Well done to all of those Polish masters who took part in those virtual championships and they now have something quite unique to remember this meet by.  Podium finishers were all eligible to claim a unique medal and certificate. A commemorative participation medal for all other competitors was also made available by Gosia Serbin.

FB event page. Medals by Wall of Fame,

If readers of mywaterworld.life know of any similar events they can send us details by email – don’t forget to include some visuals.