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 breastroker
Howard, any male over 40 who has bad knees would be insane to do a ....
I agree. I only asked because you said you could squat 1080. I had it in my head what a squat was, thinking power lifting, and wasn't thinking of the incline squat machine.
The one thing I keep thinking about is that if you can go 12 yards in 3 seconds, that's 24 yards in 6 seconds. That's assuming your turn is roughly the same as your start which it probably isn't. Let's add a second and make it 7 seconds. That means you only have to swim 26 yards to complete a fifty. The record for your agegroup is 28.7 so all you would have to do is swim 26 yards in 22 seconds to break the record. Sounds like a piece of cake when I think of it that way but I keep thinking I'm missing a piece of the equation. Am I missing something?
Originally posted by breastroker
Howard, any male over 40 who has bad knees would be insane to do a ....
I agree. I only asked because you said you could squat 1080. I had it in my head what a squat was, thinking power lifting, and wasn't thinking of the incline squat machine.
The one thing I keep thinking about is that if you can go 12 yards in 3 seconds, that's 24 yards in 6 seconds. That's assuming your turn is roughly the same as your start which it probably isn't. Let's add a second and make it 7 seconds. That means you only have to swim 26 yards to complete a fifty. The record for your agegroup is 28.7 so all you would have to do is swim 26 yards in 22 seconds to break the record. Sounds like a piece of cake when I think of it that way but I keep thinking I'm missing a piece of the equation. Am I missing something?
