The Fastest Age

My comments about VO2max were made with the assumption that the technique is good. Popov trains overdistance but not at the expense of his technique. Here's a question: Today while I was warming up with a slow 800, one of the other regulars was sprinting a 50 free. His stroke rate was twice mine, yet I easily passed him. I was swimming at a fraction of my VO2max, while he was probably at 100% of his. Why the difference? Could it be technique?

Ion, I never know either what you will understand or what you did understand. You see, that was a joke. The joke was . . . . Oh, forget it. I try not to explain jokes. If I have to explain it, it was probably a bad joke. From now on, I will use one of those 'laugh track' smileys. (no, not really)

Originally posted by swimr4life After I posted that reply, the count went to 75! Does anyone out there understand this? :rolleyes: :confused: Psst.... there's an option that lets you display like 5,10,15...40 posts per page. Thus different people will have different amounts of pages.

Children learn faster and adapt more readily than adults. Is anybody really going to argue that point? As a music teacher it is well known that children can learn something much faster then an adult. You can start teaching a child and an adult to play the piano at the same time and you will find the child picking up on playing much faster then the adult. My five year old daughter just the other day told me to watch her and she did a backstroke flip turn. She learned this just by watching me do it in my workouts. No one ever taught her. Yet a member of my masters team as trouble even thinking about learning to do the backstroke flipturn. She was never taught how to do it when she was younger. She quit swimming before the backstroke flip turn was allowed in swimming. Now that she has returned to swimming she says she sticking with the way she knows how. I think this would give the "late-bloomer a disadvantage" along with a million other factors that have been mentioned in this never ending thread. As for all this discussion maybe we can at least all agree to disagree. We all have some great veiws and points but I feel like I'm starting to swim in circles thinking about all this.:eek:

I did not know there were options for post per page, so mine is probably at the defaust.

Wait Ion I know I spelled wrong, default, default default.(My daughters teacher makes her write the words she spells wrong multiple times!). I show 26 pages now!

Originally posted by swimr4life I understand why different people would have different page counts depending on their settings. What I don't understand is why MY count changes from 25 to 75 after I post!? WEIRD! :confused: The server doesn't like you :p

I thought that the Bay area is the home of triathletes. The average income in the Bay area is higher than San Diego. Also, Orange County to the North has a higher average income. Most triathletes are apart of the upper-middle,so the greater those in the upper-middle class the more likely there is more triathletes, Ion.

Originally posted by Ion Beza I already answered this in the thread about the VO2max that was deleted. I don't feel like I should re-re-re...re-cycle for the Johnny-come-late. No you didn't. Mentioning that there was a study, is not the same as listing the title, authors, journal, and publication date. (I would just settle for title and authors, at this point.) Since this "fact" is so crucial to your theory, I thought you would be eager to display it, so that others will understand. Your reluctance to make the citation, and attempts to make it sound like you did, could lead to the conclusion that you are ducking the issue.

Cherry picker Beza, did read the whole post including this part: I don't think that VO2 max enters into it all that much. There isn't a very close relationship at all between VO2 max and performance in swimming (unlike running and cycling and x-c skiing, where there is a significant relationship). It's more related to the "redness" of the swimming muscles...how many capillaries, how many mitochondria, how much myoglobin (all things which make red muscle red). So, read the whole post before you go off bragging. I find it completely humorous that you can't provide your own data and have to rely on others to do it for you. And, even when they do, you misquote them and take only minor parts to support your theory.