Category: Health
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Injured Olympian swimmer Amy Van Dyken-Rouen on moving forward
In this web extra, Van Dyken-Rouen shares how she stays optimistic during her recovery from an ATV accident that severely injured her spine.
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Ten of the most successful people with ADHD, including Michael Phelps
9. Michael Phelps, the most decorated Olympian of all time Michael Phelps is one of the greatest athletic icons in the world. Phelps also holds the all-time record for Olympic medals and credits much of this success to his ADHD. He started the Michael Phelps Foundation which focuses on growing the sport of swimming and…
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Ellie Simmonds Reveals How To Swim Happy
This summer, Ellie Simmonds is encouraging the nation to get back in the water and rediscover their love of swimming with an exclusive SwimBritain training session. A new four-week study by British Gas SwimBritain reveals that swimming increases sleep quality, energy levels and fitness. In fact, it can improve well-being by 20% after only one…
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It’s a myth: swimming right after eating is totally fine
In the coming weeks and months, you might hear some well-meaning parents warn their children against swimming right after they eat. The idea is that swimming after eating can cause muscle cramps or a side stitch. The preventative measure, usually, is to wait 30 minutes after eating before getting in the water. It’s unclear where this originally…
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Ten Percent of U.S. Beaches Fail Swimmer Safety Standards
Read WSET You may want to check the beach water before you get in to swim. Researchers with the Natural Resources Defense Council monitored more than 3,000 beaches and according to the annual “Testing the Waters” report, 10% of U.S. beaches failed the government’s swimmer safety standards. Virginia had one of the lowest failure rates of water samples. The…
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Young swimmer with dwarfism racking up the medals
See USA Today At only 10-years-old Mia Towl has won three gold medals, set world records in the breast stroke and butterfly and was named “most promising athlete” from Sportswomen of Colorado. Mia was also born with Achondroplasia, a form of dwarfism. She was a star at the 2013 World Dwarf Games, where she won…
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1936 Olympian Adolph Kiefer still gets a kick from swimming
See Chicago Tribune Adolph Kiefer, a 96-year-old Chicago area swimmer who won a gold medal in the 1936 Olympics, talks about his lifetime of swimming. Kiefer is also an inventor and innovator of new products related to aquatics competition. http://youtu.be/XWBa-X4z4D0
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Amy Van Dyken ‘Going to Get Through It’
See ABC News The six-time Olympic Gold medalist swimmer who severed her spinal cord in an ATV crash says the surgeon told her to say her goodbyes to her husband after the crash. “There’s a good chance I wasn’t going to make it out of surgery,†Amy Van Dyken-Rouen said Wednesday. “I looked at my…
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Video: Amy Van Dyken Speaks To The Press, Surgeon Explains Injury
See SwimmingWorld While lying on a stretcher just a few feet from the airplane set to transport her to Craig Hospital in Colorado, Van Dyken said her memory of the day she was thrown from an all-terrain vehicle in Show Low, Ariz., is very fuzzy. Most of what she knows was described to her after…