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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I wonder in part if this will be dependant on how big people will get. I think that kids now are much bigger people than when I was a kid. And I think my generation is bigger than my grandparents. I am not talking fat, I am talking tall and strong. When I go to my son's HS, at 5-4, girls and boys tower over me. These kids are not fat, but they are not the skinny kids that I went to HS with. If they are in athletics, they have usually been working out from a young age and are much more muscler than my generation was.
So over time, will people develop to be bigger and stronger, and therefore the times will slowly continue to drop?
I wonder in part if this will be dependant on how big people will get. I think that kids now are much bigger people than when I was a kid. And I think my generation is bigger than my grandparents. I am not talking fat, I am talking tall and strong. When I go to my son's HS, at 5-4, girls and boys tower over me. These kids are not fat, but they are not the skinny kids that I went to HS with. If they are in athletics, they have usually been working out from a young age and are much more muscler than my generation was.
So over time, will people develop to be bigger and stronger, and therefore the times will slowly continue to drop?
