Did anyone see the new Gary Hall, Jr Barbarsol commerical. It is about time swimmers get some good endorsements besides Speedo and the other swimming apparel companies. Madison Ave has really come a long way in the last few years. You would never see a swimmer in a commerical a year after the Olympics before. It is nice to know that all the endorsements aren't going to Phelps even though the boy more than deserves whatever endorsements he get. I mean Phelps is out of this world.
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Now we know why swimmers are fatter than runners! (See other discussion thread.) We all love to eat! Think about it. We look at why runners are so thin, and try to figure out why running appears to be more effective at reducing weight.
Shirley's hypothesis: swimming is MORE effective at keeping weight off because people who love to eat chose it to avoid looking like Dom Deluise. If you want to be a runner, man you better not be too hefty when you start because you will break you ankle and tear up your knee. But if you love to eat and hate to sweat (Let's see a show of hands from those of us who fit that profile. Thought so.), swimming is your sport.
AND, all that agility and body awareness that natural athletes have built up playing land based sports...GONE. If anything their slender &/or muscular builds make it HARDER for them to float easily, and we all know what happens when a novice swimmer tries to elevate his pie-hole far out of the water.
Let's see another show of hands of people who stayed in swimming, or even better water polo, because it was FINALLY a chance to kick sand (so to speak) in the faces of all the people that made us look like idiots in gym class all those years. (Once again, thought so.)
Matt
Now we know why swimmers are fatter than runners! (See other discussion thread.) We all love to eat! Think about it. We look at why runners are so thin, and try to figure out why running appears to be more effective at reducing weight.
Shirley's hypothesis: swimming is MORE effective at keeping weight off because people who love to eat chose it to avoid looking like Dom Deluise. If you want to be a runner, man you better not be too hefty when you start because you will break you ankle and tear up your knee. But if you love to eat and hate to sweat (Let's see a show of hands from those of us who fit that profile. Thought so.), swimming is your sport.
AND, all that agility and body awareness that natural athletes have built up playing land based sports...GONE. If anything their slender &/or muscular builds make it HARDER for them to float easily, and we all know what happens when a novice swimmer tries to elevate his pie-hole far out of the water.
Let's see another show of hands of people who stayed in swimming, or even better water polo, because it was FINALLY a chance to kick sand (so to speak) in the faces of all the people that made us look like idiots in gym class all those years. (Once again, thought so.)
Matt
