Dara Torres Pictures and Biography

Dara Torres, born on April 15, 1967, the 1st American to compete in 5 Olympic Games: 1984, 1988, 1992, 2000, and 2008.

Torres recently competed in the Beijing Olympics in the fifty meter freestyle, 4×100 medley relay, and 4×100 freestyle relay and brought home the silver medal altogether in 3 events.

4×100 freestyle relay and brought home the silver medal altogether in 3 events.

Torres has acquired 12 Olympic medals (4 gold, 4 silver, 4 bronze), 5 of which she gained in the Sydney Olympics in 2000, a effort made altogether the more amazing by the reality that, at age thirty-three, she was the oldest member of the U.S.A. Olympic swimming squad.

She's as well acquired at least one medal in each of the 5 Olympics in which she's contended, establishing her among a handful of Olympians to garner medals in 5 different Games.

Dara Torres, divorced twice and had a child with Dr,. David Hoffman of Florida.

But let me continue with the story.

Later on in 1992, Torres experienced what seemed to constitute a exciting life. She became the 1st athlete to model in the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue,

Torres, married and divorced Jeff Gowen, a sports producer, but maintained fit running and cycling in Central Park, Even playing basketball at the Reebok gym. But in the spring of 1999, despite not having been in a pool, except to cool down, in seven years, Torres decided she wanted to compete in the 2000 games. Later on she moved to California to train.

After merely 5 months, Torres's time in the 50-meter freestyle was 0.3 seconds faster than the world record she set in that event to a greater extent than fifteen years before. In Sydney in 2000, Torres, then 33, won 3 individual Olympic medals - bronzes in the 50-meter freestyle, 100-meter freestyle and 100-meter butterfly.

Torres brought home 2 gold medals in relays also. Although she immediately missed the intensiveness of training for the Olympics-- she stated that she wept en route to the compulsory urine test after her last race.

Sorry that it was over and unsure what to do with her life, Dara Torres went home and again retired. "I felt like I really didn't have anything else to prove to myself," she recounted me. "Plus, I thought 33 was really old. And I was tired."

Dana Torres's former husband, the surgeon Itzhak Shasha, will not be amongst her sympathizers as she competes in the Beijing Olympics.

"Trust me, I've achieved many significant things in my life," Shasha told Palm Beach Post gossip columnist Jose Lambiet, "and none of them was being married to her. I don't want to talk about that marriage, and I don't want to talk about her." Her former husband voiced

Two years ago, she had a baby daughter with David Hoffman, a reproductive endocrinologist, who was the fertility doctor who treated Shasha and Torres.

"I did treat them, but they were separated when we started dating," Hoffman said. "I didn't cause that divorce. That relationship was collapsing way before we started dating.

Dara Torres workout programs does not consist of heavy weight lifting as most people would assume.

In fact as Torres moves further into middle age her workouts are just about completely out of the pool.

She usually has a two-hour water workout and then along with her strength coach, Andy O'Brien, who is also the strength coach of the Florida Panthers hockey team. She begins her "land based' workout.

O'Brien has moved Torres away from heavy weight-lifting and towards training using dynamic exercises that stimulate her central nervous system. "The idea is not to isolate muscle groups but to get muscles contracting together in the right sequences," O'Brien explains.

Weight training, he notes, developed from muscle building and that low-rep high-weight custom is poorly suitable since as a sprinter a body comprised of muscles that have been trained to bring about power alone consumes sizeable energy attempting to move. O'Brien says speed comes by extremely interconnected movements and smooth timing.

Following his advise Torres is twelve lbs lighter, more powerful and a lot more cut than in 2000.

Torres stated that it required her head coach, Lohberg, a bit of time to adopt O'Brien's program, but she says, "I'm swimming really fast now, so he can't complain."

Torres works out for 60 to 90 mins, 4 times per week.

During the following 5 yrs, Dana Torres got married and divorced again.

An Israeli surgeon, Itzhak Shasha, and was initiated in to the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame.

Torres whose father, Edward Torres, a real-estate developer, was Jewish.

She converted before marrying Shasha. Torres became the 1st adult female to acquire the Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach car race.

And so, in the fall of 2005, after fighting for years to give birth to a baby, Torres at long last got pregnant with Tessa.

She also started swimming once again for exercise. she had severe morning sickness and she'd "preferably throw up in the pool gutter.

But of course the ever super competitive person, Torres soon found herself racing "whoever the middle-aged guy happened to be in the next lane," even whilst noticeably pregnant. 3 and a half months postpartum,.

Have you heard about that other 2008 Olympic wonder? NO... No not Michael Phelps-- Dara Torres. Here is a short Dana Torres Biography

Dara Torres has to be an inspiration to "Baby Boomers" everywhere! You see Torres is 41 years old and she is currently swimming at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. She dared to enter the 2008 Olympics and swim a "young person's race" -- The 100 Meter Freestyle.

If you don't know too much about this Floridian mother of one, here are some things you should know about Torres.

You may have also seen her on TV in those Tae-Bo infomercial or some of her modeling photos.

Dara Torres, born on April 15, 1967, the 1st American to compete in 5 Olympic Games: 1984, 1988, 1992, 2000, and 2008. She contended in the Beijing Olympics in the fifty meter freestyle, 4×100 medley relay, and 4×100 freestyle relay and brought home the silver medal altogether in 3 events.

Torres has acquired 12 Olympic medals (4 gold, 4 silver, 4 bronze), 5 of which she gained in the Sydney Olympics in 2000, an effort made altogether the more amazing by the reality that, at age thirty-three, she was the oldest member of the U.S.A. Olympic swimming squad.

She has as well acquired at least one medal in each of the 5 Olympics in which she's contended, establishing her among a handful of Olympians to garner medals in 5 different Games.

On August 1, 2007, at the age of 40 (just 15 months after giving birth to her first child), she gained gold in the 100 meter freestyle at the U.S. Nationals in Indianapolis, her fourteenth win at these events. She then followed that up on Aug four by twice breaking her own American record in the 50 m freestyle, 26 years after she first set the American record at just 15 years old.

Here is a quote that bears writing down and remembering%u2026

"Don't put an age limit on your DREAMS." -- Dara Torres, Olympic Champion.

While, Michael Phelps; her younger, male teammate may be setting the Olympic world on fire at age 23. Dara Torres has become an inspiration to the rest of us who sometimes believe or hear that we are too old to achieve any physical fitness goals. That once we reach a "certain" age that we have to settle for less.

We can all have the body we want and/ or achieve our physical goals. What is required is knowledge, determination and the right training/equipment.