USAIN Bolt has his lightning-inspired signature pose and Mo Farah the famed "Mobot"; now Glasgow's own Michael Jamieson could soon be busting some moves of his own.

The Olympic silver medallist admits he has been hounding his long-suffering younger sister Lauren, an aspiring professional dancer, to teach him the legendary steps first performed by another well known MJ: Michael Jackson.

"I've been trying to learn the Moonwalk for about five years," said Jamieson. "She's got no patience teaching me."

Whether we will be treated to said dance routine at a poolside any time soon, Jamieson is coy. "Being a swimmer I have no co-ordination or rotation skills," he said. "I'm absolutely hopeless. She has got a lot of work to do."

While his performances on dry land may still need some finesse, in the swimming pool Jamieson is in blistering form. The 25-year-old from Glasgow claimed victory in the 200 metre breaststroke in the 2014 Flanders Speedo Cup in January and was runner-up to Germany's Marco Koch over the same distance in the Berlin International earlier this month. He set a new Commonwealth record of 2:01.43 as he took silver in the 2013 European Short Course Championships in December.

Jamieson will be back in action as the Scottish Gas National Open Swimming Championships 2014 starts at Tollcross International Swimming Centre in Glasgow on Thursday.

The event, which runs to next Sunday, is the first of two this coming fortnight which will give the Scottish swimming contingent their shot at qualifying for Team Scotland for the Commonwealth Games. It will be followed by the British Gas Swimming Championships, also being held in Glasgow, from April 10-15.

"I will be aiming to qualify for the team the first week and basically only swim the following week if I feel like I can swim faster," he said. "The more rest you can have, the faster you swim. Coaches usually tend to cut your rest a bit short so that's why I have entered the British Gas champs the second week, just to give myself the option to post a faster time."

Jamieson will be contesting his favoured 200m breaststroke as well as the 100m. He expects some tough competition, especially over the shorter distance. "I've put a lot of work into the 100m this year," he said. "There are a couple of young guys who have been swimming fast in the 100m this season so it will be interesting to see if I can still give them a run for their money in the sprint event."

To that end, he names his fellow Scots Craig Benson and Ross Murdoch, as well as the English swimmer Adam Peaty, as being among his biggest rivals. "It will be a good race, I think," said Jamieson. "It's so closely packed. Statistically, Scotland is the strongest nation in the world in 100m breaststroke just now, which is unbelievable. I think the third-ranked Scottish guy on paper just now is 60.0sec and that would have been top 10 in London. Fingers crossed all three of us will be swimming that event in Glasgow and we should be making the final."

Jamieson said there had been no repeat of the incident last November in which his heart required to be shocked by medics after going into arrhythmia - an irregular beat - following a tough training session.

"I'm totally fine," he said. "It was a one-off freak incident. I was honestly happier about the fact I could go back to my team-mates and boast about how hard I had pushed on that session. It sounded much more dramatic than it was. It's just a good story to tell now. I've had a number of scans and been given the all-clear.

"They checked for everything: a blood infection or some kind of virus within the heart. There was nothing at all. The chances of it happening again are very, very slim. Apparently it's quite common with OAPs but not athletes. He [the doctor] said that there was myself and two other athletes [he'd seen with the condition]. He didn't name names but they were both Olympic gold medallists. Even then I was in esteemed company."

Like Andy Murray in recent weeks, the Bath-based swimmer refused to be drawn on the topic of the Scottish Independence Referendum. "I'm in the same boat [as Murray]," he said. "To be honest I haven't done my homework so I'm in no position to make a comment for or against. I'm going to try and avoid it really."