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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 …

Written by: Arena 22 March '17 0
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 …

Written by: Arena 17 March '17 0
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 …

Written by: Arena 3 March '17 0
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 …

Written by: Arena 1 February '17 0
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 …

Written by: Arena 30 January '17 0
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 …

Written by: Arena 19 January '17 0
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 …

Written by: Arena 12 January '17 0
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.

Written by: Arena 7 December '16 0
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 …

Written by: Arena 6 December '16 0
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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. …

Written by: Arena 1 December '16 0