i'm one of the only guys on my team that foen't wear a drag suit. do drag suits make that big a difference?
if so is there a drag suit that has VERY LITTLE DRAG that i can wear to get use to at first? (eventually i'd buy one with more drag)
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Zounds! So you should perhaps be very knowledgeable, at least for yourself. Did using all this drag make you a stronger swimmer? And now that you don't use all this drag, are you significantly slower, allowing ever-so-slightly for the passing of time?
Partly. Its all worked in as "part" of a total program. Coming out of HS I was a 15:44 1500 Freestyler, so a big YES to the part about being significantly slower now. I don't train like a world class distance swimmer and couldn't if I wanted to anyways these days. To me Masters swimming is all about doing what YOU can do in the time that YOU have to train. We are all older now and have lots of responsibilities, families, etc.
Even if I won the lottery and hard the time to train HARD all the time, I don't think I'd really want to train like that again. :)
Zounds! So you should perhaps be very knowledgeable, at least for yourself. Did using all this drag make you a stronger swimmer? And now that you don't use all this drag, are you significantly slower, allowing ever-so-slightly for the passing of time?
Partly. Its all worked in as "part" of a total program. Coming out of HS I was a 15:44 1500 Freestyler, so a big YES to the part about being significantly slower now. I don't train like a world class distance swimmer and couldn't if I wanted to anyways these days. To me Masters swimming is all about doing what YOU can do in the time that YOU have to train. We are all older now and have lots of responsibilities, families, etc.
Even if I won the lottery and hard the time to train HARD all the time, I don't think I'd really want to train like that again. :)
