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

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.

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).

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.