Originally posted by Ion Beza
A lot of claims in USMS are misinformed anyway and fed with cliches for the feeble middle-aged.
Originally posted by Ion Beza
...this is a discussion forum not a dictator forum, so inputs by everyone into swimming are being communicated, analyzed and discussed on their merits.
With a paltry 3 posts one can be irreverent towards me? That question should be reserved for advanced users only. Users with at least 250 posts.
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The following statement puzzles me again, after I called it earlier when in a similar version, pseudo-science terminology.
'Fast' to me means as a late starter in the sport.
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It might be due to the fact that when pulling I am not getting a big enough distance per stroke, and I speculate that it is because of not having enough blood vessels going from the heart to the triceps due to my late start in swimming when the body was already grown (i.e.: I joined my first ever swimming club at age 28).
How is it that I have blood vessels going from the heart into the quadriceps, given the same factor of starting late in swimming, I don't know.
in the 2003 Short Course Nationals, I lost my aerobic for the 1000 free, but surprisingly I got around my fastest speed.
I am in the top 10% in every Masters club I have been across U.S., and in meets I overtake plenty of lifelong swimmers who are already a small percentage of the people who dare to compete.
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Something that I don't seem to have conveyed accross yet, *** and ***, is that I swim for the inner power of personal performance, not the outer power of social rewards.
Hence, a similar standard of achievement by Swim magazine could be a match:
like in being knowledgeable about late bloomers who are competitive amongst lifelong racers.
But there is no match:
Swim magazine has not many clues, and is mostly a waste.
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I am stating that to my achievements, the Swim magazine is mostly a waste, with its bureaucratic style of peachy superlatives and accolades to former age-group swimmers who keep in shape in USMS.
My swimming is a Thorpe-style of swimming, in another league though.
...no matter that I trained and train harder and smarter than the national top ten swimmers
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Now swimmers like us talk, and the politically correct are mute.
In the thread that was deleted I was calling this supression of quest for quality in a list of requirements for better standards in USMS, similar to what the religious Taliban fundamentalists are doing in Afghanistan:
unfounded sentimental feel good for a few conservative and stale but no crytical skills in analytical thinking.
if fat and unhealthy people are worth cajoling in Swim magazine articles, then training like me in swimming as a late starter who catches up in a competitive way with the sport as it is being practiced by lifelong racers is that worth ignoring?
think about the body fat that you carry at meets where I see you, and in contrast to this sloppy body shape you see me slim and strong.
By now, dragging yourself on this board to read enough times that I posted that the swimming VO2Max is developed in most USMS winners prior to USMS (at least in men 40 to 44), should make it within your comprehension also.
Originally posted by Ion Beza
A lot of claims in USMS are misinformed anyway and fed with cliches for the feeble middle-aged.
Originally posted by Ion Beza
...this is a discussion forum not a dictator forum, so inputs by everyone into swimming are being communicated, analyzed and discussed on their merits.
With a paltry 3 posts one can be irreverent towards me? That question should be reserved for advanced users only. Users with at least 250 posts.
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The following statement puzzles me again, after I called it earlier when in a similar version, pseudo-science terminology.
'Fast' to me means as a late starter in the sport.
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It might be due to the fact that when pulling I am not getting a big enough distance per stroke, and I speculate that it is because of not having enough blood vessels going from the heart to the triceps due to my late start in swimming when the body was already grown (i.e.: I joined my first ever swimming club at age 28).
How is it that I have blood vessels going from the heart into the quadriceps, given the same factor of starting late in swimming, I don't know.
in the 2003 Short Course Nationals, I lost my aerobic for the 1000 free, but surprisingly I got around my fastest speed.
I am in the top 10% in every Masters club I have been across U.S., and in meets I overtake plenty of lifelong swimmers who are already a small percentage of the people who dare to compete.
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Something that I don't seem to have conveyed accross yet, *** and ***, is that I swim for the inner power of personal performance, not the outer power of social rewards.
Hence, a similar standard of achievement by Swim magazine could be a match:
like in being knowledgeable about late bloomers who are competitive amongst lifelong racers.
But there is no match:
Swim magazine has not many clues, and is mostly a waste.
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I am stating that to my achievements, the Swim magazine is mostly a waste, with its bureaucratic style of peachy superlatives and accolades to former age-group swimmers who keep in shape in USMS.
My swimming is a Thorpe-style of swimming, in another league though.
...no matter that I trained and train harder and smarter than the national top ten swimmers
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Now swimmers like us talk, and the politically correct are mute.
In the thread that was deleted I was calling this supression of quest for quality in a list of requirements for better standards in USMS, similar to what the religious Taliban fundamentalists are doing in Afghanistan:
unfounded sentimental feel good for a few conservative and stale but no crytical skills in analytical thinking.
if fat and unhealthy people are worth cajoling in Swim magazine articles, then training like me in swimming as a late starter who catches up in a competitive way with the sport as it is being practiced by lifelong racers is that worth ignoring?
think about the body fat that you carry at meets where I see you, and in contrast to this sloppy body shape you see me slim and strong.
By now, dragging yourself on this board to read enough times that I posted that the swimming VO2Max is developed in most USMS winners prior to USMS (at least in men 40 to 44), should make it within your comprehension also.
