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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geochuck
Obviously you were a little younger then, did you do any training or were you naturally strong in the legs?
I actually have relatively small legs, my thighs are not big. I do have great calves, I have trouble putting on cowboy boots over my calves.
Back in the old days, we did not do any weights for swimming. We used stretch bands, and worked out with the wrestlers and ran track.
I taught nautilus for 6 years back in the 80's, the best I would squat was 320 pounds. BUt when I moved to a new gym, I was challenged by a 110 pound woman body builder to do more. I went from 320 to 450 in one day, then went to 600 in a week. It was all in my mind. I did build up slowly to a 800, then was challenged by the same lady to do more. I was working in with a man who had HUGE thighs, twich my size. we went up to just over 1000 that day. I got an Atta boy from the lady
:p
That actually meant a lot to me at the time, and the guy I was working with said he had not gone that high before either!
Once you have been to a 1000, anything less is easy in the mind. I have had periods of no gym workouts and struggle to get above 700 the first workout back. But within weeks I can go above 900 if I feel like it. I have to worry about the knee tracking at very heavy weights above 1000, so I prefer to keep it lower and do more reps and pyramids. I try to go negative on all my reps, sometimes going 3-4 seconds on the negative. It burns real sweet!
As they say what doesn't kill you makes you stronger:)
geochuck
Obviously you were a little younger then, did you do any training or were you naturally strong in the legs?
I actually have relatively small legs, my thighs are not big. I do have great calves, I have trouble putting on cowboy boots over my calves.
Back in the old days, we did not do any weights for swimming. We used stretch bands, and worked out with the wrestlers and ran track.
I taught nautilus for 6 years back in the 80's, the best I would squat was 320 pounds. BUt when I moved to a new gym, I was challenged by a 110 pound woman body builder to do more. I went from 320 to 450 in one day, then went to 600 in a week. It was all in my mind. I did build up slowly to a 800, then was challenged by the same lady to do more. I was working in with a man who had HUGE thighs, twich my size. we went up to just over 1000 that day. I got an Atta boy from the lady
:p
That actually meant a lot to me at the time, and the guy I was working with said he had not gone that high before either!
Once you have been to a 1000, anything less is easy in the mind. I have had periods of no gym workouts and struggle to get above 700 the first workout back. But within weeks I can go above 900 if I feel like it. I have to worry about the knee tracking at very heavy weights above 1000, so I prefer to keep it lower and do more reps and pyramids. I try to go negative on all my reps, sometimes going 3-4 seconds on the negative. It burns real sweet!
As they say what doesn't kill you makes you stronger:)
