Open Water Swimming For Beginners – Equipment

Open Water Swimming For Beginners Equipment

The swimming equipment, swim caps and swimming goggles are the silimar with some small variations.

A silicone swim caps might be preferable to keep the head warm. Sometimes the swimming cap may not have a good condition and have been wrinkle. This will be very bad during a race. Try wearing a new silicone swim cap which isn't stretched out.

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Try to wear a mirrored swimming goggles which can reflect the sun and can also be helpful on reduce glare, but they are not a necessity. Make sure your swimming goggle’s head strap is properly adjusted, and you may want to use an anti-fog coating or a bit of saliva to avoid cloudy lenses.www.poqswim.com

A special swimwear is not necessary, although chaffing is a consideration when you choose the dress. Body parts and swimwear can occur friction, similar to the case of brine. Salt, the more easily rub. When I travel 12 miles when the tournament in Key West, where the water is heavy salty, my swimsuit all seems are a manufacturing point of friction, very unusual.

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Vaseline, lanolin, bag balm or other grease can be used to prevent chafe marks. Now that I've had a baby, I suspect that "Desitin" would also work well, but I haven't tried it yet. For beginners, apply grease in the armpit, neck and inner thigh. If rubs are going to occur in other areas, a few training swims will make bring them to the forefront. Some swimmers use gloves, a rag or even a stick off the beach to apply grease without getting it on their hands. Grease on the hands can easily get on goggles.www.poqswim.com

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Vaseline, sheep grease, oil or other lipstick grease sachets can be used to prevent scratches. Now that I've had a baby, I suspect "Desitin" will be useful, but I have not tried it yet. For starters, apply to the armpit, neck, inner thigh fat. If rubs are going to occur in other areas, a few training swims will make bring them to the forefront. Some swimmers will use gloves, a sweat towel rub, not even a stick in the hands are greased cream. Hand cream grease stains easily on goggles.

Greasy goggles, not good! Also, don't forget sunblock if you are out during peak sun hours. Experiment and find out what works best for your skin. Waterproof does not necessarily mean that the block will work for hours on end. If you are planning a long training swim, try to start early in the morning before the sun's rays reach their peakwww.poqswim.com

Triathlon Tips–Improve Open Water Swimming

Triathlon Tips–Improve Open Water Swimming

Swimming in the open water is more challenging compare with swimming in a swimming pool. Because it is important for you to practice your open water swimming in the open water else you will be wasting your effort.

First of all when swimming in open water you will notice that the water in the sea is saltier compare to the water in the swimming pool. Not only will salt water taste bad but it can really hurt your eyes if you allowed the water to get to them. So remember to protect your eyes with a good swimming goggle else you will have a tough time doing open water swimming.

The next challenge you will face when doing open water swimming is the forces of nature like water current, wave and wind. Unlike swimming pool where water current is controlled and the area is smaller, swimming in the sea can be very difficult if you are used to a controlled environment. That is why it is very important to practice swimming in the sea so that you are more adapt to the environment. Another benefit when practice in the sea is that the area is so much bigger compare to the swimming pool which makes your laps longer which is more suitable for a triathlon race.

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Triathlon Tips - Improve Open Water Swimming

Water temperature is another obstacle that you will need to overcome. Typically sea water is usually colder compare to swimming pool water. If you are afraid of cold water then now is the best time to practice by taking cold showers to help your body to get used to it. If not your open water swimming performance will be affected greatly because you will constantly have to fight the freezing sensation. I highly recommend that you wear a good swimming suit as it will help with the cold temperature. Do a good warm up is also a great idea so that your body is prepared for the task ahead.www.poqswim.com

Getting a group of friends to do open water swimming has a lot of benefits as well. Not only will it help you with training but it can make your life much safer. When swimming in the sea you must be prepared for a lot of unexpected events and sometimes having a friend around can save your life. As for practice you can compete with your friends to make your practice a more joyful one rather than swimming alone. With your friends around you can practice overtaking when doing open water swimming as well. You have to remember that triathlon swimming is not limited to a single lane for each swimmer. There is no lane and only a finishing line and when you want to overtake someone in front of you, you must know how to shift your swimming direction to go pass your competitor. Not only that you have to deal with the water current that is cause by your competitor in front of you. Triathlon Tips-Improve Open Water Swimming.www.poqswim.com

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The last and most important thing of all is practice, practice and practice and you will be good at it. Open water swimming takes time to get used to because it is not a controlled environment like a swimming pool.www.poqswim.com

Two Quick Tips If You Struggle With Breathing

Two Quick Tips If You Struggle With Breathing

If you're quite new to swimming freestyle, you might well struggle with your breathing. You might be drinking water when you try to breathe or feel desperately out of breath and have to stop for a rest at the end of each length.

Don't worry that's perfectly normal; here are two quick tips to help:

The One-Two-Stretch Mantra

One of the biggest causes of breathing problems when swimming is if your lead arm is collapsing down into the water as you breathe.www.poqswim.com

As you start to take a breath on the water, your lead arm should still be out in front supporting you. If it sinks down in the water with little purchase then your mouth will sink below the surface and you'll drink water on swimming pool.

At this point of the stroke when on the swimming in water, you're naturally thinking ‘give me that air’ and not other things! The key of breathing when you are swimming is to let your breath take care of itself and keep your focus on the support of the lead arm instead.

 

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To help with this, try repeating this mantra to yourself when you are swimming: 1-2-Stretch; 1-2-Stretch where the 1 and 2 are on normal strokes and the stretch is on a breathing stroke, This will help you reminding to keep that lead arm stretched forward for support when you are swimming.

If you have a tendency to pause and over-glide in your stroke when you are in swimming, then be wary of leaving this arm stationary for too long or you risk stalling. Just stretch and feel like the focus is on that lead arm and not on breathing in.www.poqswim.com

If you found this tip helped your breathing then take a look at our Bambino Swim Type and see if it rings any bells with your stroke when you are swimming. The Bambino Stroke Correction Guide will give you plenty more tips to improve your swimming, all tailored to your specific stroke style!

Popeye Breathing

Our second tip breathing when swimming is to remember to angle your mouth to the side.www.poqswim.com

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This looks a bit like Popeye chewing his spinach, which is where the technique gains its name from. Breathing in this way helps you keep your head lower without drinking water, which is important as lifting the head too far causes your legs to sink downwards.www.poqswim.com

Tips for triathlon swimming

Tips for triathlon swimming

                                                             

It’s always great to be given a few great triathlon swimming techniques from competitors beating you out of the water.

Here are a few of the best Triathlon Swimming.

1. Don't miss your groups swim time. It’s always funny seeing someone running through the water after their wave has gone off, however it’s not great for getting a good time.

2. Do a swimming warm up, it’s essential to get blood to your arms, particularly as the body needs time to adjust to the cold of the water.

3. Swim goggles - put your swimming goggles on first - so your swim cap goes over the back of your goggles. This will make it difficult for your goggles to come off in the sea of arms and legs.www.poqswim.com

4. Pick your starting point, if you’re not a confident swimmer it might be best not to be in the middle of the pack, start on the left or right extreme.

5. Dolphin Dives - it much more efficient to dive and swim through the water than run through the deeper water. Have confidence, dolphin dive!www.poqswim.com

6. Keep your head down. If your head is pointing down your legs will be more parallel and less of a drag.

7. Long slow strokes are better for beginners - rather than turning the arms over and suffering in the second half.

8. Keep Swimming - regardless of what over swimmers are doing - yes they may swim on top of you - its best to try and keep moving forward. It’s a bit freaky but you will survive.

9. When you open your mouth to take a breathe, try opening on the beach side, this will save you swallowing sea water.

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How to Sight Correctly In Open Water Swimming

How to Sight Correctly In Open Water Swimming

Sighting - lifting your eyes out of the water to see where you are going - is a very important skill in open water and triathlon swimming. The mistake most swimmers make is to crane their head high out of the water to try and sight and breathe at the same time. This sinks your legs, adding lots of drag (even in a wetsuit) and ruins your stroke rhythm.

The correct technique is to keep your head much lower, just raising it enough to lift your eyes above the surface of the water:

When do you breathe? Immediately afterwards and to the side.

As you catch the water and pull through with your lead arm, lift your head and look forward. Then immediately www.poqswim.comrotate to the side to breathe with the stroke, dropping your head back into the water as you rotate. The whole thing is one smooth fluid action and it takes less than a second to complete.

Practice this technique in the pool and get used to timing your head movement. It's normal for it to feel quite mechanical and awkward at first so allow yourself around six sessions and it will start to feel much more natural.

Turn A Fuzzy Picture Into A Clear One

The great thing about this technique is that it creates less downward pressure on the legs and so less drag, there's also very little interruption to your stroke rhythm. The downside is that you don't have very long looking forward, so hold the image of what you saw in your mind and analyze it afterwards. www.poqswim.com With any sighting technique you won't always get a clear view of what's ahead but that's OK - don't panic! Perform a couple more strokes and sight again and you'll gradually turn a fuzzy picture into a clear one in your mind.

How Often Should You Sight?  

Anywhere between every 3 and 12 strokes depending on the conditions and also on the symmetry of your stroke. If you have confidence that you swim straight then you can afford to look forwards less frequently, avoiding the extra effort of lifting your head and the downward pressure on your legs that results.

If you find you veer off course all the time then something as simple as bilateral breathing  during your training can significantly improve your stroke symmetry, helping you to swim straighter and faster in open water as a result.

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Mexico to give up the right to host 2017 World Swimming Championships

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Five years ago, Because was trapped in a financial crisis, Dubai give up the right to host the 2013 world swimming championships which he has got from China Hong Kong, Madrid, Hamburg, and other six cities with many difficulties. It has made the world surprise about this behavior. Currently, the embarrassment has been gradually forgotten. There are some very similar thing has happen. Because the impact of international oil prices plunged by the Mexican government announced in April, because it is difficult for the city of Guadalajara to bear the huge cost of running the game, The office of Mexico have to give up the 2017 World Tour event.www.poqswim.com

For the world swimming championship, it costs a lot of money, but with few benefit, Based on the Guadalajara which has give up this most fame "one of the world's major race”. It makes people to realize the scars. On the competitive level of swimming, the swimming world championships have always been the undisputed benchmark in the profession. It has Yinsuo Pu, Michael Phelps and other swimming superstar to emerge and rise to the highest, but now has suffered the embarrassment of little benefit. Fortunately, last week, the city Budapest which announced took over in 2017 World swimming championship, FINA also be temporarily alleviated the immediate need. However, if this balance is now a serious uneven economic account on the 1st unable to settle, winter swimming world championships will still not be in the past.

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World Swimming Championships is not without its own spring ushered through, in this century, two generations of Thorpe and Michael Phelps swimming superstar turned out that it had to rely on broadcast revenue to spend some happy times of plenty. However, another great star will eventually stepped down, only the establishment of a mature business model in order to make long-term favored by the market, and drive more talented young people into the pool.

As a global epidemic of mass sports, swimming is not the lack of mass base, but FINA has as limited in commercial development. In fact, the athletic types, swimming and track and field has many similarities. However, when the IAAF Diamond League has already launched other commercial events, FINA's short-course swimming World Cup in addition to outside events still retains most of the traditional athletic tournament appearance. Lack of business degree, hamper their enthusiasm in the brand business. Until now, the official partner of FINA's only Nikon Omega influential in the world, and the remaining part of the city, mostly specializing in market local brands.

The reason, both swimming events can expose advertising booth rare congenital factors - and different track and field events, swimming Players only cap out of the water, unable to effectively brand appearing on swimwear, but also with FINA operation of ideas are not unrelated. www.poqswim.com

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America got the Championship of Kazan Man’s 10KM Open Water Swimming

America got the Championship of Kazan Man’s 10KM Open Water Swimming

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In the 2015 World Championships Men's 10 km open water swimming competition, the American player Willy Karimov Chomsky finishes in 1 hour 49 minutes 48 seconds to 2 and become the championship. Dutchman player Whitman and the Greek players Gian Antonio Ortiz won the runner-up and second runner-up.www.poqswim.com

Men's 10 km open water swimming are total with 66 players participated, including the previous 5 km open water swimming winner who got the gold medal in the South Hall Chad players, the Chinese team sent Zu Lijun with Joe Chung Yi two contestants.www.poqswim.com

Competition is fierce competition, the players who have completed the first lap of 2.5 km timing point, Hungary's Frog King Gu Aita, 8 to 28 minutes 23 seconds in the first row. Britain's Brunner slower of 2.1 seconds followed. Chinese players with 28 minutes 40 seconds Zu Lijun 7 and range 20 to complete the first lap of the race, Joe Chung Yi used when it is 28 minutes 42 seconds 3

After the half, the players in front of group composition changed greatly, Gu Aita slow down significantly withdraw from the competition, www.poqswim.com the US players Willy Karimov Chomsky swim to the front, 7.5 km finished in 1 hour and 23 minutes and 45 seconds 2, Polish player Surrey Mowei Ci 7 1 second behind Tunisia's London Olympic 1500 meters gold medalist in Melo came in third.

 

Last lap with 2.5 km, Willy Karimov Chomsky hold the lead, the first to reach the end, to score one hour 49 minutes and 48 seconds to 2. Dutchman Whitman came from behind to score 3 1 hour 50 minutes to get the runner-up. Understanding the defending champion, the Greek players Gian Antonio Ortiz, in 1 hour 50 minutes 00 seconds 7 to finish the race in third, failed to achieve three consecutive years of the project. www.poqswim.com

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