Nutrition for swimming in open waters

Case Study: Competition Nutrition Intakes during the Open Water Swimming Grand Prix Races in Elite Female Swimmer. A Czech group has the diet of a swimmer in 7 occasions of 15-88 km resp.3-12 hours duration analyzed. Per hour, the swimmer took around 83 g of carbohydrates and 12 g of egg whites during the fat loss was around 1G.

Per competition lesson gave the approximately 390 kcal energy supply. The whole analysis can be found under https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26731793/

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Meaning of swimming, cycling and running for triathlon

Changes in Contributions of Swim, Cycle, and Run Performances on Overall Triathlon Performance over a 26-year period The French sports scientist Romuald Lepers has studied how strong the disciplines swimming, cycling and running performance in a triathlon. For this he has taken the 50 fastest athletes about the short distance and the Ironman distance from the years 1989 to 2013.On the short distance, the athletes were swimming and running faster, but there was no change in cycling time and the total time. On the Ironman track the wheels and maturities and the total time were faster, but nothing happened when swimming.Swimming made about 18% on the short distance, running with 47% and 36% cycling made a much larger part.At the Ironman, cycling and run about 40%.

Life athletes longer?

Do Elite Athletes Live Longer? A Systematic Review of Mortality and Longevity in Elite Athletes Canadian researchers have systemically analyzed the previous literature regarding survival of athletes.

It showed the athlete, if controlled for gender and age with the general population, significantly longer life than inactive people. The analysis can be read below https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26301178/

Bruno Dobelmann in the ice water

Bruno Dobelmann floats 3 ice mugs in 24 hours Bruno Dobelmann floats in lippesee at Paderborn 3x an icemile, accompanied by the University of Zurich and hedged by the DLRG Paderborn and Dlrg Augustdorf. A movie of this event can be seen under https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvw6ujhdfei

SPORT SCIENCE SUMMARY

Summarized scientific knowledge about sport performance, training & health The sports scientist Pieter van der Berghe has put together on his website results of many studies on sports, training and health. It’s worth it on the website Current findings shortly can be read, everything can be found at https://www.sportsciencesummary.tk

The age of winners at World Cup and Olympia in swimming

The Age in Swimming of Champions in World Championships (1994–2013) and Olympic Games (1992–2012): A Cross-Sectional Data Analysis 26 years ago, Schulz and Curnow examined the course of the age of Olympic Masters in Swimming 1986-1980. It showed that the age of women at 18 years and in men was 21 years ago and this age has remained constant over almost 100 years.We have now examined the age of the world champion and Olympic champion of the newer years across all styles and routes. Over the period of 1994-2013 for the World Cup and 1992-2012 for Olympia showed that the age of the winners remained constant.

East African runner over half marathon and marathon

Male and female Ethiopian and Kenyan runners are the fastest and the youngest in both half and full marathon It is well known the runner from East Africa dominate the largest marathons in the world. Until now, East African elite runners were examined by the marathon route, little is known for East Africans who do not run at the largest marathons in the world and run runs over the half marathon track. We have numbers of over 500,000 runners who run between 1999 and 2014 in half marathons and marathons of Switzerland.

Body core temperature in the preparation for the sleeve channel

The effect of cold water endurance swimming on core temperature in aspiring English Channel swimmers An Australian group has examined the course of the body core temperature in floats, which have completed a preparatory swimming over 6 hours at a water temperature of around 15-16 ° C. It showed that the body core temperature absorb, regardless of the physique of the swimmers.

Older floats tended to a hypothermia as well as swimmers with a deeper impact frequency while swimming. This work can be found under https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26835005/

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Masterathlets in the freestyle swimming

Performance trends in master freestyle swimmers aged 25-89 years at the FINA World Championships from 1986 to 2014 The performance of elite schemes in freistic swimming is well examined. On the other hand, it is not known as the performance of age-class athletes in the freestyle swimming has developed since 1986.Since this year, there is official World Championships for Masterathlen who will start without preliminary and finals. Thus, one can examine both the development of participation as well as the performance for these athletes.We have thus examined how participation and performance have developed for more than 65,000 athletes in the age groups 25-29 to 85-89 years. It showed that participation in the athletes older than 40 years increased.For men like women showed that the performance over all the freestyle routes in all ages improved.In the age groups 25-29 to 75-79 years, men were faster than the women, but not in age groups 80-84 to 85-89 years.