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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Originally posted by Tom Ellison
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.
I wonder if that's not what happened to Ian Thorpe the other day.
Maybe he OD's in VO2MAX Shampoo, exploded of the blocks, and was done with his 400 by the time the timers blinked!!
Originally posted by Tom Ellison
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.
I wonder if that's not what happened to Ian Thorpe the other day.
Maybe he OD's in VO2MAX Shampoo, exploded of the blocks, and was done with his 400 by the time the timers blinked!!
