When considering the overall speed of swimmers in the past and present it seems that although times are still dropping for swim events there is a "dropping off"graphically of time improvement..now do you think this could mean that there will be an ultimate saturated speed time that will never get beat?i think that unless we evolve say webbed feet or the like then this is possible....thoughts?
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This is a great theoretical discussion as it pertains to lowering times to a point where it is physically impossible to go any lower. As I posted in a recent thread, I still maintain that using VO2MAX Shampoo could theoretically enable a swimmer to explode off the block and actually finish the race before it starts.
Having said that, discussions such as this are somewhat abstract to say the least…and…much the same as trees falling in the forest and no one being around to hear the sound….but…whatever logic I have remaining in my rather bent head….I think there is a point where we simply cannot go. Lets face it, swimming a 50 free in 5 seconds is simply NOT going to happen…EVER…regardless of the advances in suits, training, human conditioning, human evolution or anything else…Of coarse, I randomly chose 5 seconds as a point of reference to buttress my thoughts regarding the point where we simply will never be able to go. In reality, I believe it will be much higher then 5 seconds…but where is anyone’s guess…and I also believe we are within….say….3 to 4 seconds of this number in the 50 free…..no matter how much time we give it.
Lastly, I heard the tree when it fell in the forest and I wasn’t even there….were not, was to, was so, was not….what's really wild is that tree had my tree house in it....honest....it really did....
This is a great theoretical discussion as it pertains to lowering times to a point where it is physically impossible to go any lower. As I posted in a recent thread, I still maintain that using VO2MAX Shampoo could theoretically enable a swimmer to explode off the block and actually finish the race before it starts.
Having said that, discussions such as this are somewhat abstract to say the least…and…much the same as trees falling in the forest and no one being around to hear the sound….but…whatever logic I have remaining in my rather bent head….I think there is a point where we simply cannot go. Lets face it, swimming a 50 free in 5 seconds is simply NOT going to happen…EVER…regardless of the advances in suits, training, human conditioning, human evolution or anything else…Of coarse, I randomly chose 5 seconds as a point of reference to buttress my thoughts regarding the point where we simply will never be able to go. In reality, I believe it will be much higher then 5 seconds…but where is anyone’s guess…and I also believe we are within….say….3 to 4 seconds of this number in the 50 free…..no matter how much time we give it.
Lastly, I heard the tree when it fell in the forest and I wasn’t even there….were not, was to, was so, was not….what's really wild is that tree had my tree house in it....honest....it really did....
