I do not know if this expression (float dead) it is well undertood in English, and may be the fact that I can not "float dead" is kind of ridiculous for some of you (for me too), but even when I have been master swimming for over 13 years now (practicing 6 days a week), and I have participated in many open water meets in my life, and some of them I have wan at my edge group (35-39).... even so I still can not play as float dead (face up) with my body, neither in a pool or on the sea.
I can do it with a pull buoy in my ancles but with out it, my feet just sink.
My both children can float dead easily since they were little (4 years old) and I show them how to do it, but I can´t, is it not funny?
Anyone have a tip?:confused:
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As many know, I have asthma. My lung capacity is 72% of predicted value fopr my age & heigth. However, that is 9 liters. I used to have 13.5 liters. I loved getting my PFTs with the old machines that looked like refrigerators becaseu the technician would have to change the bell that held the air. The new machies are really computers tht simply measure the amount of air that passes through the tube.
Another thing that has changed. It used to be that many of the techs were retired navy guys who worked with Navy divers. I swear there were three different guys in DC working at different hospitals who were retired navy. What was really odd about them was that they all wore wigs. One was at the old Group Health office on Pennsyvania Ave., one at the Adventis Hospital in Tacoma Park, and the other worked for a private doctor in Silver Spring. I always wondered if wearing a wig was a job requirement!
As many know, I have asthma. My lung capacity is 72% of predicted value fopr my age & heigth. However, that is 9 liters. I used to have 13.5 liters. I loved getting my PFTs with the old machines that looked like refrigerators becaseu the technician would have to change the bell that held the air. The new machies are really computers tht simply measure the amount of air that passes through the tube.
Another thing that has changed. It used to be that many of the techs were retired navy guys who worked with Navy divers. I swear there were three different guys in DC working at different hospitals who were retired navy. What was really odd about them was that they all wore wigs. One was at the old Group Health office on Pennsyvania Ave., one at the Adventis Hospital in Tacoma Park, and the other worked for a private doctor in Silver Spring. I always wondered if wearing a wig was a job requirement!
