From another thread:
> I have no interest in short distances since I have no fast-twitch fibers to speak of.
It's been decades since I was a physiology student, but I have to wonder if fast twitch fibers would be really all that useful to swimming, even to the short sprints. Maybe for 25s. I would think that larger cross sectional area of the swimming musculature (more available power) and the ability to recruit more muscle fibers simultaneously (using a larger fraction of the power on tap) would be more important for sprinting. Are there published studies which demonstrate that drop dead sprinters have a significantly different distribution of fast twitch and slow twitch muscle fibers than the rest of the swimming population?
patrick,
to my recollection i have not swum the 1650 since 1987. swc champs to be exact. if my aged memory is correct.
were you and i both in the finals?
egad why do i even want to remember that let alone do it again???OK, I stand corrected ... 50 to 1000, but I'm confident you could knock out a great 1650.
As for SWC champs, unfortunately, I know I swam it every year, but I think '87 was the only year I swam it well. I would really love to find old copies of meet results for those years as that was in my pre-blogging, but post-notebook-logging days of swimming.
Freshman year, I actually typed all my workouts into whatever word processor came with my Mac, but, alas, those files are lost now. I really wish I had them, though.
patrick,
to my recollection i have not swum the 1650 since 1987. swc champs to be exact. if my aged memory is correct.
were you and i both in the finals?
egad why do i even want to remember that let alone do it again???OK, I stand corrected ... 50 to 1000, but I'm confident you could knock out a great 1650.
As for SWC champs, unfortunately, I know I swam it every year, but I think '87 was the only year I swam it well. I would really love to find old copies of meet results for those years as that was in my pre-blogging, but post-notebook-logging days of swimming.
Freshman year, I actually typed all my workouts into whatever word processor came with my Mac, but, alas, those files are lost now. I really wish I had them, though.
