Ross is the Chair of Sports Science at the University of Edinburgh (from January 2000) and is the Coaches' Infoservice Swimming Digest Editor.
To find out more about Ross then click on his photograph.
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Swimming Can Improve Cholesterol Ratios and Cardiovascular Health |
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Bagheri and colleagues have found that moderate training over many weeks improved the levels of HDL-c (the good fats) and decreased LDL-c (the bad fats) and that this effect was greater for swimming than for cycling or running.
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I always swim badly in the final |
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Brian Marshall delivers advice that is essential for coaches to work effectively with swimmers to help them to have constructive thoughts that enable them to perform at their best rather than destructive thoughts that undermine swimming performance. The talk is very practical in nature drawing on ‘real world’ experiences common to swimmers and coaches. Great ideas that you can start using to help your swimmers straight away.
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Stroke frequency strategies for top performance |
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Per Ludvik Kjendlie explores whether the frequency freely chosen by a swimmer is necessarily the best frequency to use for best performance and economy and whether a strategy of changing the frequency during a race can be beneficial? Is a ‘U’ shaped stroke frequency pattern better than a constant stroke frequency? Per Ludvik presents some data from elite performances to shed some light on this issue.
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Where does body roll come from and how does it help? |
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Carl Payton’s lecture provides an insight into body roll with clear explanations and very effective demonstrations with the aid of a turntable. What rolls more the shoulders or the hips? Do swimmers roll more when breathing than not breathing? Is roll mostly a reaction to the swimmer’s own movements? Is it produced mostly by pushing against the water? Or is it because the buoyancy force and gravity force are out of alignment? Perhaps some of each! How does body roll influence the hand path and hand speed? Does body roll contribute to propulsion? Does body roll minimise drag? Does increased body roll reduce the risk of shoulder impingement? These are just some of the questions addressed in Carl’s excellent talk.
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