As Howard Coselle would put it, "controversy!"
www.swimmingworldmagazine.com/.../11404.asp
I find myself cheering her criticism of unchallenged assumptions about more yards always being better, and an unwillingness to determine why so many swimmers are getting hurt or sick.
Matt
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Wow! This is quite a story. Thanks for the link.
I noticed she used the terms “elite swimmers” and “elite athlete”. I know it is just a convenient term (I’ve used it myself in the past), but I still wonder where the dividing line is drawn.
I was particularly struck by her observations on how many members of the swimming community at large look up to Olympians and their training practices as a model to follow, and that it is (at least in her opinion) a far less than perfect model.
Wow! This is quite a story. Thanks for the link.
I noticed she used the terms “elite swimmers” and “elite athlete”. I know it is just a convenient term (I’ve used it myself in the past), but I still wonder where the dividing line is drawn.
I was particularly struck by her observations on how many members of the swimming community at large look up to Olympians and their training practices as a model to follow, and that it is (at least in her opinion) a far less than perfect model.
