Chicago Blue Dolphins had its best finish at a State Meet ever this weekend, 5th Place, at the Illinois Masters State Meet at the Kishwaukee YMCA in DeKalb. Two other notables for now are Eric Nilsson who took the Men’s High Point trophy for the 18-24 Age Group and Tim Carlson who…
Team Captain, Tim Carlson, made the Top 10 in the World for Men Ages 30-34 in 5 Short-Course Meters events in 2009: 100m Breast — 8th Place (1:03.05) 200m Breast — 2nd Place (2:17.92) 100m Fly — 5th Place (0:55.11) 100m IM — 5th Place (0:57.34) 200m IM — 2nd…
To help you track your swimming yardage during the Holiday Fitness Challenge, we suggest using the US Masters Swimming Fitness Log, or FLOG. This program can track for multiple types of workouts and fitness memberships. And it’s FREE with your USMS membership. Here are the steps you can follow to…
As the fund-raising part of the Holiday Fitness Challenge, I would like Chicago Blue Dolphins to raise money for the Greater Chicago Food Depository. With the economy in the state that it’s in, stopping hunger over the holidays sounds like a pretty good thing for us to do for our…
And speaking of competitions… The Kishwaukee YMCA in DeKalb, site of the 2008 ILMSA State Meet, won the bid again to host the 2010 State Meet. The meet will take place on April 23-25, 2010 (start getting your entry cards ready now!). There was a big push to get the…
In keeping with the discussion on the technical swim suits, here’s an article from the November 3rd “Wall Street Journal,” Some Aging Competitors Call High-Tech Swimsuits Dirty Pool. It kind of rehashes a lot of the discussion that we’ve already heard over the past year or so, but it’s a…
As I was digging myself out of an email blizzard after being gone for a couple of weeks, I found this message from Rules Committee Chair, Kathy Casey on the USMS policy on swimming suits. If you own a racing suit, take a gander at the note below. You can…
When I was in Florida last month for the American Swim Coaches Association annual convention, I met some great coaches and had a chance to exchange some ideas. Out of these meetings came the idea for the Holiday Fitness Challenge, a way of keeping ourselves in shape over the holidays,…
Sorry that this post came in late… We do sets called “stroke elimination sets” periodically in practice. These are sets where we start off with a base stroke count and ask you to take strokes off the count when you swim. We do these sets as a way of getting…
I was at a fitness expo this weekend, and I got into a conversation with one of the trainers at Hi-Fi Personal Fitness about some complementary kettlebell classes this month. They will run on Monday October 19th and Monday October 26th at 7am. The classes will be about 45 minutes…
