The Fastest Age

Originally posted by lefty Connie, I really am having trouble with this: Do you not think that it is a disadvantage to start swimming late in life? That is just stupid. If your problem is with Ion personally, then why attack his theory and ideas? Are you unable to seperate the two? I don't know if it is a disadvantage ort not. Depends on what a person is trying to achieve, and which way you're looking at it. I mentioned before, I think that the lifestyle is much more of a disadvantage that age, up to a certain age, which I think happens somewhere in person's 50's or so. Some of the terms you guys are talking about cover such a broad range of factors, it's difficult to make absolute statementa about them, much like this 'starting late in life disadvantage.' Disadvantage as opposed to what? and trying to accomplish what? There has to be a goal in mind before you can define advantages. -If a person starts to do any sport at 40, and expext to make the olympics, than we're not talking disadvantage, we're talking unrealistic. -If a person says it's the lack of VO2MAx development in his youth that is limiting his potential that is realistic for a 44 year old, well, I don't believe there is a way to know. I have serious doubts that this is the only component that is holdiong Ion back. According to ion, I'm not even sure whether he complains he's being back by VO2Max development or not, one minute he says that it's hinderance, then he claims that he is an exception. Sop, it't the contradictions in his statements that raise my eyebrow. -As for his personality, I've already did what I think of it. To answer your question, I can separate his theories from his abrasive approach (I do that every day wioth engineers I work wioth - many Ions in my fiels), and frankly, I'm not very impressed with either. I think if he worked on his personality, he'd be able to develop his swimming and his ideas farther. I can't say that I can predict the path those ideas would take if he managed to bridge the poersonality issues. He may learn something new, or he may calm down enough to present hios own ideas with fewer contradicting tangents, and more evidence with fewer assupmtions.

Originally posted by lefty Connie, I really am having trouble with this: Do you not think that it is a disadvantage to start swimming late in life? That is just stupid. If your problem is with Ion personally, then why attack his theory and ideas? Are you unable to seperate the two? I don't know if it is a disadvantage ort not. Depends on what a person is trying to achieve, and which way you're looking at it. I mentioned before, I think that the lifestyle is much more of a disadvantage that age, up to a certain age, which I think happens somewhere in person's 50's or so. Some of the terms you guys are talking about cover such a broad range of factors, it's difficult to make absolute statementa about them, much like this 'starting late in life disadvantage.' Disadvantage as opposed to what? and trying to accomplish what? There has to be a goal in mind before you can define advantages. -If a person starts to do any sport at 40, and expext to make the olympics, than we're not talking disadvantage, we're talking unrealistic. -If a person says it's the lack of VO2MAx development in his youth that is limiting his potential that is realistic for a 44 year old, well, I don't believe there is a way to know. I have serious doubts that this is the only component that is holdiong Ion back. According to ion, I'm not even sure whether he complains he's being back by VO2Max development or not, one minute he says that it's hinderance, then he claims that he is an exception. Sop, it't the contradictions in his statements that raise my eyebrow. -As for his personality, I've already did what I think of it. To answer your question, I can separate his theories from his abrasive approach (I do that every day wioth engineers I work wioth - many Ions in my fiels), and frankly, I'm not very impressed with either. I think if he worked on his personality, he'd be able to develop his swimming and his ideas farther. I can't say that I can predict the path those ideas would take if he managed to bridge the poersonality issues. He may learn something new, or he may calm down enough to present hios own ideas with fewer contradicting tangents, and more evidence with fewer assupmtions.