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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Originally posted by gull80
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Maglischo cites numerous studies showing loss of these adaptations when training stops. Do they lie dormant for decades, as Ion suggests, only to be "reawakened" years later? I doubt it.
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I think they do, as was noted here too:
Originally posted by Conniekat8
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Over the years, I've seen lots of old guys who were former youth swimmers get
into the water after a long layoff. First couple of days, they're not so
tough. After a month, they are kicking some serious butt. I think it's much
more related to muscle physiology than to technique.
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All because of their capillaries, mitochondria, and myoglobin.
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I think that muscle physiology allowing to absorb the highest percentage of VO2Max when swimming is developed mostly in the growing years of a person.
I.e.: the capillaries, mitochandria and myoglobin in the swimming muscles are developed at most in the growing years;
when one doesn't swim much, this development is partially lost;
when one starts to re-train, some of this development that was lost comes back, easier than it is for an adult swimmer to do this level of development from scratch;
this beats technique.
Originally posted by gull80
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Maglischo cites numerous studies showing loss of these adaptations when training stops. Do they lie dormant for decades, as Ion suggests, only to be "reawakened" years later? I doubt it.
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I think they do, as was noted here too:
Originally posted by Conniekat8
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Over the years, I've seen lots of old guys who were former youth swimmers get
into the water after a long layoff. First couple of days, they're not so
tough. After a month, they are kicking some serious butt. I think it's much
more related to muscle physiology than to technique.
...
All because of their capillaries, mitochondria, and myoglobin.
...
I think that muscle physiology allowing to absorb the highest percentage of VO2Max when swimming is developed mostly in the growing years of a person.
I.e.: the capillaries, mitochandria and myoglobin in the swimming muscles are developed at most in the growing years;
when one doesn't swim much, this development is partially lost;
when one starts to re-train, some of this development that was lost comes back, easier than it is for an adult swimmer to do this level of development from scratch;
this beats technique.
