Olympic Swim with Pieter!

I swam with an Olympic legend today: three time gold medalist freestyle Pieter van den Hoogenband! He is Hollands best swimmer in history and one of our most famous Olympians. In 2000, he defeated Ian Thorpe on his home turf in Sydney, Australia to take both the 100m and 200m gold medals while setting new [...]

Swim workouts

I was at a loss for a good swim workout for today, so I scoured the web for ideas. Here’s a cool idea: swimming ladders while increasing the amount of repeats as you are descending down the ladder. So, instead of  a “standard” ladder like 500 | 400 | 300 | 200 | 100 | 50 [...]