Category: Health
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Andy Coan on the road to recovery from Guillian-Barre Syndrome
In 1975, at 17 years of age, Andy broke Jim Montgomery’s 12-day old ward record in the 100m freestyle. He won 3 gold medals at the 1975 FINA World Championships and at the University of Tennessee won seven NCAA titles, including the 50 and 100 free twice. Late in 2014 he was diagnosed with Gullian-Barre…
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Granny celebrates centenary in style…with skydive and shark swim
Thrill-seeking centenarian Georgina Harwood certainly made the most of her 100th birthday by marking the milestone with a shark dive, two days after completing a skydive. South Africa on Monday 16 March. She said of the experience: “I’m so glad I did it, a special experience in my life time, I just can’t compare it…
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How swimming turned my life around: Grant Hackett
If someone had told me six years ago that I would be physically and mentally preparing myself to embark on any sort of competitive swimming program, I would have said “not a chance in the world” and walked away laughing. It’s fair to say life has had many twists and turns in the last four or…
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Aquatic Therapy for Children on the Autism Spectrum, Customer Testimonial Texas Swim Academy
Texas Swim Academy is an infant, child and adult swim lesson facility. The academy strives to introduce children to water at an early age through infant aquatics, and to fully develop their swim stroke abilities through adulthood through stroke development. Children are taught life saving swim safety skills and have the option to prepare for…
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Is Chlorine in Indoor Swimming Pools Hard on Your Lungs?
In winter or on a rainy day, an indoor pool can be just the way to get moving and to get your heart pumping. However, common chemicals in pool water that can get more concentrated indoors may make it harder on your lungs. “The main concern with indoor pools is the chlorine, which is used…
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Fitness: 50 lengths a lunchbreak – secrets of a regular swimmer
A high-speed collision between my shoulder and somebody else’s knee during a tag-rugby match smashed my clavicle and resulted in my arm being put in a sling for three weeks. During the ensuing lay-off – when even the simplest activity, such as dressing, became an epic struggle – I reached an irrevocable conclusion: my days…
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Blind swimmer sees no obstacles
Inside a small college in Conway, some of the best swimmers in Central Arkansas are racing for a trip to the state tournament. The stands are packed with parents, but most are cheering for one swimmer in particular: the swimmer in lane seven. He can hear it and feel it, but he can’t see it.…
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Paraplegic gold-medal swimmer Amy Van Dyken embraces every challenge
John Lewis intended only to say hello to Amy Van Dyken and get his picture taken with the six-time Olympic swimming gold medalist when he saw her at the UCLA-USC women’s swim meet last week. A former competitive swimmer and the father of swimmers, Lewis had followed Van Dyken’s career from afar — especially her…
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Conor Pope: ‘I’ll swim a mile, and it won’t kill me’
I have never trusted swimming. Unlike most forms of exercise and beach or poolside activities, when you are swimming you have to spend a lot of time in something that can quite handily kill you. And that has never seemed entirely wise to me. While I did not grow up with a fear of water,…