Working on your flexibility will help improve your swim strokes, but do you know exactly how to work on it? This is an interesting topic because all coaches and instructors just don’t agree. The A Camp says that swears by pre-workout stretching – noting its impact on the frequency of injuries. The B Camp says…
Did you know that there is evidence that only 11 percent of girls ages 5 to 8 get the recommended hour a day of physical? This is especially disturbing when you realize that 42 percent of boys of the same age group get their recommended exercise. These statistics were reported by the Archives of Disease…
Little Otter hosted a Safety Day to teach children many safety tips and techniques. In support of Safer 3’s promotion of water safety as a part of its campaign to prevent drowning deaths through education, Little Otter had instructors working with children to learn the Jump, Turn and Grab technique for reaching safety if they…
Water is an amazing substance. It helps us to stay clean, gives plants what they need to grow and sustains our bodies so that we can live healthily. It is part of the fluid that sustains us in our mother’s womb and it soothes and relaxes us throughout our lives. The most abundant substance in…
Do you have swimmers who love the water and being in it so much that it’s more than a fun and healthy hobby? They may have even hinted that they want to be involved with swimming as an adult. There are definitely some career paths for these young ones to dream about. Inspired Swimmers can…
Should you worry if your child has verrucas (plantar warts)? Warts on the feet called verrucas are often the subject of questions from parents. They want to know if these plantar warts are something they should worry about if a child has them on their feet. Most are in agreement that verrucas are anything other…
Kids bring more than homework home from school. And this seems even worse when they go back after the winter break. They bring sneezes, sniffles, fevers, upset stomachs, and flu into your house. And it seems that even if they are immunized, they are still in danger of picking up new strains or germs that…
Swimming for a Longer Life? One of the things that Dr. Steven Blair* did in his keynote at the World Aquatic Health Conference several years ago was ask a simple question: Does swimming reduce our risk of dying? And the answer, Dr. Blair believes, is pretty simple: yes! Dr. Blair then shared findings** that offer…
Of course, we think that it is important for everyone to know how to swim. It is especially important for parents to make sure that their children are afforded the opportunity to learn to swim. They have no hope to safely enjoy being around the water if they don’t. Swimming is an important life skill…
We put amazing stress on ourselves every day. Packing our days with as much as we possibly can and feeling inadequate when we can’t get it all accomplished. This stress doesn’t emerge just in the adults in the equation but also unleashes itself on children. How do you stop it? Or at least give yourself…
