HEALTH AND FITNESS
Benefits of dryland training for swimmers
There are many different ways you can improve your swimming through the use of dryland activities. You may eventually find that you are unable...
ATHLETE DEVELOPMENT
Pat Chat: Sleep enhancement for youth athletes
In the second of our three-part series, AD Academy Programme Manager and Lead Coach Patrick Davenport focuses on the importance of sleep for the...
How can you build psychological safety?
When it comes to pursuing excellence, moving from where we are now to a place that is more effective, how we behave is what...
SWIM SCHOOL
What is the role of a supervisor?
We want our Swim School to run as smoothly as possible and for everyone to have a good experience each time they come to...
Importance of bilateral breathing
When we swim, most of us will feel more natural when we breathe to one side than the other. However, learning to breathe to...
AUT MILLENNIUM
Power of a positive attitude
We're less than a year away from the Tokyo Paralympics, and things are starting to heat up for our para-athletes across all sports. AUT...
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50 Questions Every Youth Athlete Should Ask Themselves
Asking good questions is an excellent way to assess your performance and become more in tune with what to focus on to get better.
At...
5 Reasons Why Competition is Good (and bad) for your Child
What does the word ‘competition’ bring to mind? Is all competition a good thing? How do you distinguish between helpful competition and that which...
The Menstrual Cycle and How It Affects the Female Athlete
It’s well-known that sex differences between men and woman exist. Differences that affect your physiology.
But what’s not so well known is how these differences...
Lessons from A Silver Fern
Guest Contribution: Anna Harrison - New Zealand Netballer.
Another big year of Northern Mystics and New Zealand Silver Fern Netball commitments has come to an...
Ankle Injuries: how to strap them
Ankle injuries are not only the most common injury that is registered with ACC out of all sporting injuries but they also have one...
EVENTS
Giving a flip about mental health
Auckland strongmen Gareth Edwards and Tom Moore are aiming to break the Guinness World Record for tyre flipping in July, all in the name...
North Island’s top weightlifters in action
This weekend's North Island Championships are your chance to see the some of the country's leading weightlifters in action, including Commonwealth Games gold medallist...
Halloween Week Photos
Thank you to all our wonderful Gym members for a fantastic Halloween week. We loved seeing all your awesome costumes and hope you had...
AUT Millennium Gym Open Day – 20th October
WANT TO BE THE BEST YOU CAN BE?
Come along for a FREE workout or group fitness class to experience our community Gym!
We'll have our trained...
VIDEO
Tracey Lambrechs 2015 Houston IWF World Weightlifting Championships
Tracey Lambrechs is a NorthSport Olympic Weightlifting and New Zealand weightlifting athlete, as well as being an AUT Millennium Scholarship Athlete.
Find out a little...
HIGH PERFORMANCE
15 years of growth for water polo
Water Polo continues to be one of New Zealand’s fastest growing sports and North Harbour Water Polo Club is no different.
The club, then known as NorthSport Water Polo Club and training at Glenfield Aquatic...
Transitioning into ‘real life’
Changing jobs can be an anxious and nervous time for anyone, but for an athlete, the trepidation around leaving the sport they've dedicated their life to can be daunting.
For weightlifter and Gym staff member...
Life as a Foundation Club Athlete
AUT Millennium is a training ground for a wide variety of sportspeople, water Polo players, athletics, weightlifters, kayakers, sailors and swimmers. Laura Quilter, a New Zealand swimmer and surf lifesaver, is one of those...
Building a strong foundation
Long before Millennium Institute of Sport and Health, now AUT Millennium, was built in 2002, an athletics club existed.
North Harbour Bays Athletics Club is not just one of the most successful athletics clubs, it...
North Harbour Waterpolo Club win 5 Pan Pacific Championship titles!
Well done to the U20, U18, U16, U14 Womens & U20 Mens North Harbour Water Polo Club teams who all placed FIRST in the Youth Pan Pacific International Water Polo series!
What an incredible achievement!
NATIONAL AQUATIC CENTRE
The best seat in the house
Jodie Rawle has worked at the AUT Millennium Speedo Shop since 2011, but it’s the time spent here by her family that spurred her decision to sponsor a seat in the National Aquatic Centre....
Multiple benefits from hydrotherapy
Carrying groceries, getting in and out of cars, and even walking are everyday tasks taken for granted by most people. But for those living with Multiple Sclerosis, common symptoms including muscle weakness, loss of...
Creating strong partnerships: The National Training Centre
AUT Millennium’s 50/50 partnership with AUT University in 2009 and subsequent partnership with High Performance Sport New Zealand (HPSNZ) has brought together the very best in research and education, high performance sport and community...
National Aquatic Centre News: July 2018
Monday 2 - Friday 6 July: 2018 AON Open Swimming Championships
In early July more than 300 of New Zealand’s fastest swimmers arrived at the National Aquatic Centre for the 2018 AON Open Swimming Championships....
