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Doing some training in town this week. Always nice to stay close to home and get some pool time with my grandson. Also getting ready for the Hudson River Seal Swim

My newest blog post:

NBA Centers Wilt Chamberlain & Emeka Okafor: Pool Workouts — Streamlined Performance “In the 1980s, when I first started taking some of the world’s best athletes into the pool, my long-time companion Wilt Chamberlain had elbow surgery by Frank Jobe, M.D. to repair a triceps tendon he had torn playing racquetball.  Wilt wanted to speed healing and we had learned that poo

My newest blog post:

www.streamlinedperformance.com/articles/2019/12/24/breakthrough-on-how-professional-athletes-use-the-water

"I have seen time and again athletes who get injured and have no other choice but to use the pool as a way to rehab, stay conditioned while recovering, or reluctantly placate a demanding coach or physical therapist. This part is not new but what has become evident to me after almost 3 decades of training large dryland athletes in the water is that we should be using the water more! We should not be using the water only as a place of last resort when nothing else will do.

Time and again it has been shown by experience that using in water exercises including proper swimming can help athletes recover faster, stay in shape during the off season without as much wear and tear to the body, maintain weight requirements, expand energy systems, decrease time to ramp up to specific dry land training, extend careers, a better active retirement life and much more.

I believe we are on the cusp of having a breakthrough on how professional athletes use the water in all of these areas if eyes are opened to the empirical evidence that is all around us."

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Jeffrey Utsch

Breakthrough on How Professional Athletes use the Water — Streamlined Performance Breakthrough on How Professional Athletes use the Water I have seen time and again athletes who get injured and have no other choice but to use the pool as a way to rehab, stay conditioned while recovering, or reluctantly placate a demanding coach or physical therapist.  This part is not

My newest blog post: www.streamlinedperformance.com/articles/2019/12/19/nfl-russell-wilsons-secrets-to-record-straight-starts-in-his-career-swimming

Russell Wilson’s secrets to his seemingly innate durability? To his ability to withstand brutal hits? To start not just every game, but every practice?

Postgame swimming.

No, this time it’s not Recovery Water. But it is about the water.

“I get up early in the morning, I swim. That’s one of the first things I do,” Wilson said Thursday before New Year’s Eve practice. “That helps a lot (to) get ready to go.

“Best thing to do is always be available. I think that obviously, to not miss practices, to be out there on game day, that’s what I’m here for. Ultimately: Whatever it takes. That’s kind of the mentality. Try to take care of your mind, body as much as possible throughout the week, get ready to go. I’m big on the mobility part of it, too.”

“Best thing to do is always be available. I think that obviously, to not miss practices, to be out there on game day, that’s what I’m here for. Ultimately: Whatever it takes. That’s kind of the mentality. Try to take care of your mind, body as much as possible throughout the week, get ready to go. I’m big on the mobility part of it, too.”

Yes, the most indispensable member of the Seahawks gets in the pool each Monday so he can practice all week and play again on Sunday. Wilson tries to do up to 30 laps in a pool on the day after games.

“I swim pretty good. I’m not a phenomenal swimmer or anything like that; I’m not Michael Phelps out there,” he said, chuckling. “But for me, I definitely swim laps. I’ll swim probably 30 if I can, if I have the opportunity to swim in a big enough pool. So that’s a big thing for me.

“I’m not going to tell you where I go swim.”

Could be inside his own house. In 2015, the 27-year-old Wilson bought a 10,700-square-foot mansion on Lake Washington, west of downtown Bellevue, for $6.7 million — though no real-estate listings say it has an indoor pool.

Wherever he does it, it works. Not only has Wilson never missed a game in his NFL career, he hasn’t been on an injury report — not for even a single practice day. The only time he’s missed any Seahawks practice came in May. He missed a voluntary minicamp. He chose instead to fly to Florida to attend the funeral of a beloved mother figure to new teammate Jimmy Graham.

Wilson hasn’t missed any game or practice time since the first game of his freshman year at North Carolina State.

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Jeffrey Utsch

NFL Russell Wilson’s secrets to Record Straight Starts in his career ... Swimming! — Streamlined Performance Russell Wilson’s secrets to his seemingly innate durability? To his ability to withstand brutal hits? To start not just every game, but every practice? Postgame swimming. No, this time it’s not Recovery Water. But it is about the water. “I get up early in the morning, I swim. That’s one of t...