The Fastest Age

So we have the basis for Ion's theory - time to examine the claim: 1. The window for best aerobic development in one's life is 13-19 for boys, (I'm paraphrasing here so if I'm off let me know). By your claims if someone did not swim during the growth years (13-19) they will not be successful? (Ion please define successful, winning a gold medal would be successful I agree, lets face it we are talking about a 1 in how many billions achieve this - Just like like being a billionaire could be deemed successful in business but do you have to be the richest man in the world to be a successful business man, would you agree say a top 10 USMS time could be a way of considring one to be successful in swimming?). 2. The three more cardio-vascular sports are in order -from highest down-, cross country skiing, swimming, marathon running; - how come the highest VO2 readings come from cross country skiiers, distance runners and road cyclist (I haven't found a list that has included any swimmers, I also haven't found a list to include any sprinters (ie Nelson Vails, Carl Lewis, Maurice Greene, etc.) 3. Swimmers at the Olympic level, even sprinters, do overdistance training for developing their cardiovascular shape; - Do they or could it be honing their swim technique, when Tiger Woods finishes a practice round of golf and does 100 one hand putts is he doing it to develop his putting VO2 max or working on perfecting his putting skill. I run my theory by a sports medicine doctor a few days ago and he thinks that this is possible providing that biopsies on athletes' muscles show that the muscles developed in that sport have cells with a greater absorption of oxygen developed during a certain age span. - I think it should be : I ran my theory by - not I run (not that I am one to throw stones since I have had my share of typos, so you can understand someone making a typo now can't we). As I mentioned before I talked to someone very much in the know (Loren Myhre) about Sports Medicine and specifically training of swimmers and VO2 max, his comment to me was that swimming is more about explosive power than VO2 (some exception for the distance events) - that a swimmer should train like their running counter part (ie a 100 free should be training like a 400 runner (since their respective events last the same duration), with the exception of working on technique for swimmers because of how much technique affects their sport.

So we have the basis for Ion's theory - time to examine the claim: 1. The window for best aerobic development in one's life is 13-19 for boys, (I'm paraphrasing here so if I'm off let me know). By your claims if someone did not swim during the growth years (13-19) they will not be successful? (Ion please define successful, winning a gold medal would be successful I agree, lets face it we are talking about a 1 in how many billions achieve this - Just like like being a billionaire could be deemed successful in business but do you have to be the richest man in the world to be a successful business man, would you agree say a top 10 USMS time could be a way of considring one to be successful in swimming?). 2. The three more cardio-vascular sports are in order -from highest down-, cross country skiing, swimming, marathon running; - how come the highest VO2 readings come from cross country skiiers, distance runners and road cyclist (I haven't found a list that has included any swimmers, I also haven't found a list to include any sprinters (ie Nelson Vails, Carl Lewis, Maurice Greene, etc.) 3. Swimmers at the Olympic level, even sprinters, do overdistance training for developing their cardiovascular shape; - Do they or could it be honing their swim technique, when Tiger Woods finishes a practice round of golf and does 100 one hand putts is he doing it to develop his putting VO2 max or working on perfecting his putting skill. I run my theory by a sports medicine doctor a few days ago and he thinks that this is possible providing that biopsies on athletes' muscles show that the muscles developed in that sport have cells with a greater absorption of oxygen developed during a certain age span. - I think it should be : I ran my theory by - not I run (not that I am one to throw stones since I have had my share of typos, so you can understand someone making a typo now can't we). As I mentioned before I talked to someone very much in the know (Loren Myhre) about Sports Medicine and specifically training of swimmers and VO2 max, his comment to me was that swimming is more about explosive power than VO2 (some exception for the distance events) - that a swimmer should train like their running counter part (ie a 100 free should be training like a 400 runner (since their respective events last the same duration), with the exception of working on technique for swimmers because of how much technique affects their sport.