What do you think of total immersion?

Originally posted by gull80 As for buffering enzymes, I don't know how "engaging" they are, but they are pretty darn useful during a race when you're dealing with lactic acid. Or is lactate production eliminated by TI? As a swimmer most competitve in 200+ yd free events, that lactic acid "burn" was a very familiar companion in many races. A few years ago, after training w/ some people knowledgable about TI, I swam my best Masters times in the 500 and 1650 the same weekend after competing hard for 13 years . During my p.r.'s in both races, the lactate burn simply wasn't there as before. I concentrated on making my stroke a efficient as possible. The next day, however, I felt like I had been beaten with a baseball bat! :0)

Originally posted by knelson Long Curse Nationals, huh? Freudian slip or intentional? :) I'll see you this summer at Worlds, Ion. Good luck with your training. It seems like quite a few people from the forum will be going to the World's at Stanford. Perhaps we could arrange a dinner one night so we can put some faces to some names. Just an idea.

Very nice swims at Nationals, Terry. Congratulations. Looks like you split the 500 perfectly.

After swimming and competing for over 30 years, I have had some shoulder injuries. I got Terry's book a few months back, I thought it was great, I could swim farther with less excertion. The YMCA where I swim only teaches this tech. I am hoping to correct poor tech. I developed , so I could swim with shoulder pain. Every swimmer out ther has their own idea what works for them Terry thanks

From now on I swim my way, rather than my rivals Good quote Terry. It's similar to what my college coach said which was something that can be used as a life lesson. My College coach said, "You can't control they guy next to you, so why worry about him".

In 1964 I raced 44k in Egypt 11 laps of 4k, I found that after 4k I was sitting in the 1,2,3rd place with two Eyptian swimmers Shazly and Galil, so I settled in with them and decided I did not want to swim in first place or go to the front, strange things happen when you swim in Egypt. after 4 laps the guys in my boat told me Abou Heif and Zytoon had both gotten out. These were the two main competitors in the race. So I sat right there with the other two and was quite happy to just stay there. The water was very warm and very salty in Alexandria harbour. It was also very polluted the sewage from the city was dumped there but they said it was turned off for the day, but I did come accross a couple of brown lumps. This is where you can really think about your technique and watch the strokes of the other swimmers and plan a finish. I decided I would hold on until the last kilometer and sprint it out. With 1 lap to go as we passed the turning bouy and the startting dock Shazly and Galil swam to the dock and got out leaving me in first place and no one close. I was already counting the Rubles. When I arrived at the 2nd bouy it was huge, they used to tie up freighters to it. What a surprise the guy Zytoon who got out of the race early on was sitting behind the bouy and I ran into him. He started sprinting away as if he had just gotten in the water. I tried to stay with him but could not so I figured it happened and nothing I could do 2nd place prize money would not be too bad. I swam to the bouy and then the next then to the finish no one passed me Zytoon came 1st and I came 7th every one else in the race except Zytoon and I swam the four bouys all the rest only swam the last 3 bouys. At the party after the race I sat with Galil and Shazly and asked why they got out and they said they knew what was going on so they got out.

I was present at the ISHOF in 1998 when Abou Heif was inducted. I spoke with him at the reception at length regarding cold water swimming. He was very funny explaining how much he ate to gain weight and body fat for cold water swims. One of the greatest long distance swimmers who ever lived.

Originally posted by Stillhere I was present at the ISHOF in 1998 when Abou Heif was inducted. I spoke with him at the reception at length regarding cold water swimming. He was very funny explaining how much he ate to gain weight and body fat for cold water swims. One of the greatest long distance swimmers who ever lived. Abou was a great swimmer, I had heard that he is very sick and was in touch with his son, a race car driver he was also very sick, but now when I try to reach them my emails end nowhere. When Abou and his wife came to our house he would grab my daughter Linda and dance all over the living room with her and at the races he would take Linda for walks and tell everybody that this is George's little Linda he said Linda in Arabic ment Beautiful One. He sure could eat in Rhode Island they paid for our food at a resturant and after a couple of days they cancelled the right to order our own food as Abou would order three steaks for breakfast, lunch and supper. They gave us food vouchers after that.

"He sure could eat in Rhode Island they paid for our food at a resturant and after a couple of days they cancelled the right to order our own food as Abou would order three steaks for breakfast, lunch and supper. They gave us food vouchers after that." George, funny you write this, because he said his friends didn't like having him over for dinner or as a house guest during his training years because he would eat them out of house and home. He said his family put up with his eating habits but came close to making him pay for dinner.

He invited me to dinner at his house when I was in Cairo, what a meal 7 courses maybe even 20. We started with a fish soup, It was delicious until about my fourth spoonful, I had a head of a fish with the eye staring at me. Flavored rice balls wrapped in grape leaves. Beef with a gravy that was the best I had ever eaten. A pasta in a sauce not tomato almost a gravy. Then two little fish pan fried I do not know what they were but a white fish same as the ones in the soup. Greek diamond shapped pastries made with honey and nuts. The food went on forever. My goodness forgot the fresh figs that Julio Travaglio the Italian swimmer loved. The entertainment was great also belly dancers and then his wife an opera star sang for us.