I posted this message a while ago, but I thought I'd ask again. I'm a University student writing an article on people ages 30-50 that swim on a regular basis. Specifically I'm looking for people that had joint or bone problems from other forms of exercise, ex: running- knee problems, and switched to swimming because of the low stress on your joints. Or if you would like to reply to this and tell me why you love to swim and why it helps you, that would be great too.
Thanks,
Rebekah
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Meg, in our age group a lot of our contempories have not swam meets in years or just do it for exercise So, we do better than if we would have if those people would have stayed in. If I could do my times I did at 20 years old like I did a community college, I would have made the top ten in 50 breastrokes and 50 butterfly and 100 breastroke and 100 yard butterfly for the 45-49 age group for women. But I was away from swimming for too many years and I lost a lot of upper body strength and even those swimmers that swim at the top of our age group that were national and pre-national when they were younger swim slower, there are excepts like L. Val in the 50 to 54 age group.
Meg, in our age group a lot of our contempories have not swam meets in years or just do it for exercise So, we do better than if we would have if those people would have stayed in. If I could do my times I did at 20 years old like I did a community college, I would have made the top ten in 50 breastrokes and 50 butterfly and 100 breastroke and 100 yard butterfly for the 45-49 age group for women. But I was away from swimming for too many years and I lost a lot of upper body strength and even those swimmers that swim at the top of our age group that were national and pre-national when they were younger swim slower, there are excepts like L. Val in the 50 to 54 age group.
