What is the fastest age for a swimmer(mine seems to be faster as i get older and yes i swam as a youngster...now im 37..)?
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As you age and your body changes do you think your weak swim events maybe become your stronger and vice versa.
I will totally disagree with this statement. In high school I was a long distance swimmer and a backstroker. To this day I can not sprint and I am not a breaststroker.
As for this VO2Max factor, I would say between running, playing soccer, and two years on my high school swimteam (marching band, too if you want to count that.) I would think that I would of built that up. Yet as a swimmer today I am far from being fast. I attribute that to poor technique, poor conditioning, being overweight, and having children who changed my whole body shape.
Because I was only on the swim team for two school years it really did not build my technique. Since we have such a small masters team we have no coach. So I continue to swim with out anyone to help me with my technique. This I beleive is a major factor in my not being a faster swimmer.
If VO2Max was a major factor in swimming fast then these other factors shouldn't slow me down much, but they do. So for me to swim faster I know I need to concentrate on working on the factors I stated above and not worry about this VO2Max thing.
As you age and your body changes do you think your weak swim events maybe become your stronger and vice versa.
I will totally disagree with this statement. In high school I was a long distance swimmer and a backstroker. To this day I can not sprint and I am not a breaststroker.
As for this VO2Max factor, I would say between running, playing soccer, and two years on my high school swimteam (marching band, too if you want to count that.) I would think that I would of built that up. Yet as a swimmer today I am far from being fast. I attribute that to poor technique, poor conditioning, being overweight, and having children who changed my whole body shape.
Because I was only on the swim team for two school years it really did not build my technique. Since we have such a small masters team we have no coach. So I continue to swim with out anyone to help me with my technique. This I beleive is a major factor in my not being a faster swimmer.
If VO2Max was a major factor in swimming fast then these other factors shouldn't slow me down much, but they do. So for me to swim faster I know I need to concentrate on working on the factors I stated above and not worry about this VO2Max thing.
