Fitness & Wellness
Water fitness: now you won’t have anymore excuses not to get in the pool!
With the term water fitness, we can group together a vast universe of activities, dynamic and fun, to do in addition to classic swimming and its 4 styles. Activities that …
Fitness & Wellness
Is it best to train in the pool alone or with others?
Swimming is a beautiful sport (in fact, it is the most practiced in the world), able to produce countless benefits for the body and mind. Everyone does it for personal …
Fitness & Wellness
Children, everyone in the pool! The benefits of swimming begin at an early age
From the very first days of life, contact with water is an amazing experience that tests a newborn’s motor skills. The aquatic environment in fact recalls the mother’s womb for …
Fitness & Wellness
Do you feel down? Try hydrotherapy!
Hydrotherapy is an ancient practice that as the name suggests uses water for therapeutic purposes. The German naturopath Sebastian Kneipp, father of modern hydrotherapy, has created over 160 useful techniques …
Elite Team
arena extends relationship with Olympic champion Sarah Sjöström
arena has extended its highly successful relationship with Swedish superstar Sarah Sjöström, signing a new sponsorship agreement that will run through to the Tokyo Olympics in 2020. The 23-year-old from …
Training & Technique
High intensity interval training and performance
In cooperation with Sport Science Lab In the context of training, “optimal stimulus” refers to how dose-response is perfectly calibrated to physiological adaptation. Would you like to know how to …
Fitness & Wellness
Health and safety, health rules for the pool
If swimming is our passion, we can’t wait to put our swimsuit on and dive into the water. But we often underestimate the fact that, being a hot and humid …
Elite Team
Life is short, live it fast! Interview with Hannah Miley
In preparation for racing at a SC meet I start the season working on plyometric work and athletic based land work to try and gain that athleticism and explosive power for starts and turns. In training, I focus on the technique of each aspect mentioned at slower speeds gradually building up to race pace speed once the ideal technique has been reached to reinforce it.
Elite Team
Short course – Interview with Stefano Morini, FIN (Italian Swimming Federation) Coach and Head Coach of the FIN training aquatic centre in Ostia (Rome)
With the 25m pool, technical aspects such as the turn, push, glide, and sprint naturally become more important – how do you work on these aspects in your preparation for …
Events & Competitions
13th FINA SC World Championships – PRESS KIT
In 2016, for the first time Canada plays host to the FINA World Swimming Championships (25m) from 6-11 December in the nation’s southernmost city of Windsor on the Detroit River. …