{"id":219,"date":"2015-06-02T09:02:50","date_gmt":"2015-06-02T09:02:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/fsiblog\/?p=219"},"modified":"2015-06-02T09:02:50","modified_gmt":"2015-06-02T09:02:50","slug":"working-harder-to-swim-faster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/maritimeblog\/2015\/06\/02\/working-harder-to-swim-faster\/","title":{"rendered":"Working harder to swim faster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Marion James, a FSI PhD student based in our\u00a0Performance Sports Engineering Laboratory (PSEL) at the University of Southampton while on holiday in the USA last month was pleased to see the outcome of some\u00a0performance\u00a0testing undertaken awhile ba<a href=\"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/maritimeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/363\/2015\/06\/mj.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-222\" src=\"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/maritimeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/363\/2015\/06\/mj-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"mj\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/maritimeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/363\/2015\/06\/mj-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/maritimeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/363\/2015\/06\/mj-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/maritimeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/363\/2015\/06\/mj-1568x2091.jpg 1568w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/maritimeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/363\/2015\/06\/drag1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-223\" src=\"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/maritimeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/363\/2015\/06\/drag1-300x164.png\" alt=\"drag1\" width=\"300\" height=\"164\" srcset=\"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/maritimeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/363\/2015\/06\/drag1-300x164.png 300w, https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/maritimeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/363\/2015\/06\/drag1-768x421.png 768w, https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/maritimeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/363\/2015\/06\/drag1.png 984w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/maritimeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/363\/2015\/06\/drag2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-224\" src=\"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/maritimeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/363\/2015\/06\/drag2-300x174.png\" alt=\"drag2\" width=\"300\" height=\"174\" srcset=\"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/maritimeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/363\/2015\/06\/drag2-300x174.png 300w, https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/maritimeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/363\/2015\/06\/drag2.png 604w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>ck in the University of Southampton Jubilee Pool. She commented,\u00a0\u2018Speedo USA asked us to drag-test and evaluate the performances of several products to support the training programme of high-level swimmers, and especially sprinters. As a result, two products <a href=\"http:\/\/explore.speedousa.com\/innovation\/dragster.html#features\">\u2018Dragster\u2019 and \u2018Dragtini\u2019 <\/a>are now available on the US market. They act as a parachute to increase the swimmer\u2019s drag during a training session in order to provide higher intensity training and power-up swimming performances.<br \/>\nPSEL has been looking into swimming drag over the last six years. A recent paper in <a href=\"http:\/\/pip.sagepub.com\/content\/229\/2\/126\">Journal of Sports Engineering and Technology<\/a> by \u00a0lead author Angus Webb looks at how repeatable techniques are for measuring a swimmer&#8217;s resistance when towed passively<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marion James, a FSI PhD student based in our\u00a0Performance Sports Engineering Laboratory (PSEL) at the University of Southampton while on holiday in the USA last month was pleased to see the outcome of some\u00a0performance\u00a0testing undertaken awhile back in the University of Southampton Jubilee Pool. She commented,\u00a0\u2018Speedo USA asked us to drag-test and evaluate the performances &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/maritimeblog\/2015\/06\/02\/working-harder-to-swim-faster\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Working harder to swim faster<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4066,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/maritimeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/maritimeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/maritimeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/maritimeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4066"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/maritimeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/maritimeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/maritimeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/maritimeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/maritimeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}