Calling all USMS members. Your response to this post will be used to create an article in Swimmer magazine about cross training. What types of training do you most commonly do outside of the pool? How often? What cross training works the best, and what types are the least helpful for swimming? :bliss:
Dynamic stretching appears to be where it's at these days.
Dynamic stretching of sports specific motions, you mean--in other words, swim in slow motion for a while to let the capillaries open up and the cartilaginous rust particles and other species of physiological corrosion gradually flake off your joints!
I personally call this tai chi swimming. Why is tai chi swimming not on the official list of cross training activities?
Not to mention competitive hot dog eating. I am certain there are plenty among us who engage in competitive eating training of one sort or another, without, perhaps, being entirely aware that this is what gluttony is, circa 2012.
And on this note, back I retreat to await the binder of young women who I have faith will one day flock towards me, in need my assistant instructor's expertise in guiding their yoga poses, inside or outside a pool of Jell-O.
Dynamic stretching appears to be where it's at these days.
Dynamic stretching of sports specific motions, you mean--in other words, swim in slow motion for a while to let the capillaries open up and the cartilaginous rust particles and other species of physiological corrosion gradually flake off your joints!
I personally call this tai chi swimming. Why is tai chi swimming not on the official list of cross training activities?
Not to mention competitive hot dog eating. I am certain there are plenty among us who engage in competitive eating training of one sort or another, without, perhaps, being entirely aware that this is what gluttony is, circa 2012.
And on this note, back I retreat to await the binder of young women who I have faith will one day flock towards me, in need my assistant instructor's expertise in guiding their yoga poses, inside or outside a pool of Jell-O.
