Just wanted to see if anyone here has noticed a significant change in their swim times after losing a decent amount of weight (at least 35 or 40 pounds). Did you notice minor time drops or major time drops after you lost the weight? Or did your times stay the same?
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I lost 70 lbs and dropped time in almost every event in all three courses. The year after I lost the weight, I had fifty lifetime best swims. All were unshaved -- and many of the times I surpassed were shaved times from more than ten years earlier.
I also improved my best One-Hour Swim from 4585 yards to 5075 yards.
Some of my most satisfying time drops included:
100 YD free: 52.69 to 51.55
200 YD free: 1:59.18 to 1:54.68
500 YD free: 5:30.75 to 5:18.68
800 M free (SCM): 10:11.66 to 9:43.81
1500 M free (SCM): 19:53.10 to 18:33.54
200 M back (SCM): 2:37.59 to 2:34.28
100 YD ***: 1:10.56 to 1:06.95
200 YD ***: 2:36.93 to 2:31.10
50 YD fly: 26.80 to 26.30
100 YD individual medley: 1:00.33 to 58.81
200 M individual medley (SCM): 2:39.39 to 2:27.03
400 M individual medley (SCM): 5:59.87 to 5:10.67
I'm glad you asked, because my success story was just posted on Kathleen Daelemans' web site, and I wasn't sure how to tell people about it:
www.kathleendaelemans.com/about_success_bill.html
I have attached a before/after photo just for fun.
Enjoy!
Swimmer Bill
I lost 70 lbs and dropped time in almost every event in all three courses. The year after I lost the weight, I had fifty lifetime best swims. All were unshaved -- and many of the times I surpassed were shaved times from more than ten years earlier.
I also improved my best One-Hour Swim from 4585 yards to 5075 yards.
Some of my most satisfying time drops included:
100 YD free: 52.69 to 51.55
200 YD free: 1:59.18 to 1:54.68
500 YD free: 5:30.75 to 5:18.68
800 M free (SCM): 10:11.66 to 9:43.81
1500 M free (SCM): 19:53.10 to 18:33.54
200 M back (SCM): 2:37.59 to 2:34.28
100 YD ***: 1:10.56 to 1:06.95
200 YD ***: 2:36.93 to 2:31.10
50 YD fly: 26.80 to 26.30
100 YD individual medley: 1:00.33 to 58.81
200 M individual medley (SCM): 2:39.39 to 2:27.03
400 M individual medley (SCM): 5:59.87 to 5:10.67
I'm glad you asked, because my success story was just posted on Kathleen Daelemans' web site, and I wasn't sure how to tell people about it:
www.kathleendaelemans.com/about_success_bill.html
I have attached a before/after photo just for fun.
Enjoy!
Swimmer Bill
