Club News
Pre-2022/3 Coached Training Sessions Presentation
On 22-Sept, before we began our practices for the season, Brian and Keith held an online session to discuss a selection of topics as requested by the club. You can find other posts in Swimmers' [...]
Atlantic Masters Club Swim Results – 2022 (Revised 9-Sept 17:57)
Thank you all who were able to take part in this great event. It was a fantastic day. Results: Atlantic Masters Club Swim Female Skins [...]
Atlantic Lifeboat Swim Results
Thank you all who were able to donate and take part in this great event. Results: Female Skins 1 Joanne Flannagan 33:1020 2 MILLY COSTELLO 36:540 3 [...]
AMSC Takes Part in Hit The Wall 2022
Two members of the AMSC crew took part in Hit The Wall 2022, an annual camp featuring several challenging swims over a long weekend in Co. Louth. (Keith also appeared for support.) Swimmers of many [...]
Atlantic Lifeboat Swim Rescheduled—It’s Coming Soon!
July 23rd 2022 Our swim has been rescheduled and is coming soon! You can register here in [...]
2022 Summer Swim Series – 1 – Lynches Pier
The summer series kicked off with a bang with over 30 swimmers taking part under supervision of our safety crew for the day. Details about our next swim in Ballynacourty can be [...]
Drilling Presentations
Based on questions and feedback from my earlier posts in Swimmers' Corner, Keith provided a presentation on 13-Apr-2022. Deck: 20220413-Atlantic Masters He also completed a related presentation last year: [...]
AMSC Goes To The Irish Open Long Course Swimming Championships – March 4th and 5th, 2022
The Basics The Irish Open Long Course Swimming Championships is held at the University of Limerick every year over a Friday and Saturday every March. One fantastic fact about this competition is that it is [...]
AMSC Club Party – March 4, 2022
March 4th 2022 It's been a long time since we've had a chance to meet up together and celebrate our members' achievements. Come along for some laughs, cheers and a few [...]
AMSC Goes to UL – March 12, 2022
We know that you can complete a different type of workout in the pool versus the sea. Having the ability to drill and complete other work to practice elements of your swimming without also having [...]
Atlantic Lifeboat Swim – 2022 – Save the Date
June 25th 2022 Atlantic Masters Swimming Club will be running a swim event at Renville Pier, Oranmore [...]
Swim Analysis — Is it worth it?
Hi all, as you know the club ran a Swim Analysis by swim coach Robert Mooney in Dec, and I was asked to give a brief overview of the analysis. The analysis took up the [...]
Swim for Sorcha
Swim for Sorcha August 12 th & 13 th 2020 Inis Mór to Salthill, Co. Galway. There are swims, then there are epic swims. This was an epic swim! Whilst the 40km distance from Inis [...]
Cold Water Swimming
How cold is “Cold Water”? There is no magic number of what constitutes ‘cold’. Yours, mine and the next person’s ‘cold-ometer’ is going to be different and that’s okay. Be independent and responsible in your [...]
A List of My Favorite…Drills? (2 of 2)
During my previous post A List of My Favorite Drills (1 of 2), I wrote about why and how you might want to utilize drills to improve your swimming as well as noting when it [...]
A List of My Favorite…Drills? (1 of 2)
I’ve been asked a lot about drills lately. So, as it’s the season, I thought it’d be good to provide you with some information about my favorite drills and why I do them. To start, [...]
Breathing Gives You Options
I’ve been asked about breathing while swimming freestyle. Generically, the query was related to how often to breathe, techniques for breathing, and any drills related to breathing to help swimming. In short, the answer is, [...]
Coaches’ Corner: Swimming Can Be a Pain in the…Shoulders?
Sore shoulders are fairly common among swimmers, and in our opinion, possibly more so among open water (O/W) swimmers. Not because O/W swimmers swim more or have inferior technique, but due to the more intense [...]
That Sinking Feeling – Part Two
In part one, I started discussing sinking legs. The reasons I noted were: Muscle density / Floating Position Head position Core (abdominal or dorsal muscle action) Kicking technique Ankle position / flexibility Arm action at [...]