What are the possible advantages and disadvantages of training wearing girl suits to try and increase the drag resistance?
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Has anyone noticed that a) women have to swim with those straps digging into their shoulders all the time b) high school swimmers seem to go for weirder-is-better approach to practice attire and c)nobody seems scarred for life? I think as an adult we cannot guess the workings of the teenage boy's mind (nor would we want to) and what works to motivate a h.s. team perhaps would not be effective for masters - for the boys team I coach, using trunks, tights, etc is part of the "getting psyched for states" process. We (coaches and any other adult that might encounter them in late February) know they look strange (they also have bizarre hairstyles by that part of the season, but it's all part of it) but they feel like it helps them swim faster. And they DO swim FASTER - who is to say that the mental part of taper is not as important as the physical?
Has anyone noticed that a) women have to swim with those straps digging into their shoulders all the time b) high school swimmers seem to go for weirder-is-better approach to practice attire and c)nobody seems scarred for life? I think as an adult we cannot guess the workings of the teenage boy's mind (nor would we want to) and what works to motivate a h.s. team perhaps would not be effective for masters - for the boys team I coach, using trunks, tights, etc is part of the "getting psyched for states" process. We (coaches and any other adult that might encounter them in late February) know they look strange (they also have bizarre hairstyles by that part of the season, but it's all part of it) but they feel like it helps them swim faster. And they DO swim FASTER - who is to say that the mental part of taper is not as important as the physical?
