Newton Aquatics

09/30/2018

03/18/2018

6 hours of swim lessons in a row makes me feel as if I have been through the spin cycle.

03/06/2018

Kinesthesia is the ability to feel movements of the limbs and the body, and proprioception is the ability to sense the position and location of the body and its parts. These two sensory skills account for the fluidity and almost effortless-looking nature of elite swimmers’ strokes.

02/02/2018

01/26/2018

Feel the water!

"Greatness is not a function of circumstance. Greatness, it turns out is largely a matter of conscious choice and discipline.” Jim Collins, Author of Good to Great - husband of Joanne Ernst, 1985 Hawaiian Ironman Champion

01/25/2018

01/18/2018

In 1926, Gertrude Ederle, at age 19, became the first woman to swim the English Channel. She beat the contemporary men’s record by two hours, and secured her place in history as the first woman in a major sport to best a men’s record.