I seem to remeber a female swimmer appearing on tv with a Balco hat on. If I remember correctly, she was talking about how she began training for the 200 Olmypics and was using products from this company. She was helping them develop products for swimmers. I'm not real sure but I was really surprised at the time becasue I had heard about Balco from a friend who lives in San Fransisco and is a body builder. I, at the time, was still recovering from lots of surgeries and he told me about all of their "wonderful" products.
Originally posted by hooked-on-swimming
I vigorously believe that swimming is one of the cleanest sports, because it is more technical that physical
I wouldn't be so sure. No, swimming doesn't require the kind of muscular strength some other sports do, but imagine if you could take a drug that allowed you to recover faster, hence enabled you to train at higher levels more consistently?
And about technique. It reminds me of what some people say about steroids in baseball: "steroids can't teach you to hit a baseball." Well, that logic is as dumb in baseball as it is in swimming. We're talking about the truly elite here. They already have the technique part pretty much down. When looking for that extra edge, unfortunately, some turn to illegal performance enhancing drugs.
I think (hope) swimming is cleaner than many other sports, but I think you're wrong if you think swimming is squeaky clean.
Originally posted by hooked-on-swimming
I vigorously believe that swimming is one of the cleanest sports, because it is more technical that physical
I wouldn't be so sure. No, swimming doesn't require the kind of muscular strength some other sports do, but imagine if you could take a drug that allowed you to recover faster, hence enabled you to train at higher levels more consistently?
And about technique. It reminds me of what some people say about steroids in baseball: "steroids can't teach you to hit a baseball." Well, that logic is as dumb in baseball as it is in swimming. We're talking about the truly elite here. They already have the technique part pretty much down. When looking for that extra edge, unfortunately, some turn to illegal performance enhancing drugs.
I think (hope) swimming is cleaner than many other sports, but I think you're wrong if you think swimming is squeaky clean.
