when I swim at a middle distance race pace, like if im doing 5 x 100 on a quick interval my muscles get tired faster than my heart. I wont even be breathing hard but my arms are tired and causes my stroke techinque to go bad quick. Does anyone else have this problem.
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The basic laws of hydrodynamics tell us that as you apply more force (as sprinters do) the water will give way faster, i.e. more slippage will occur. If there were a way for sprinters to swim more efficiently/with less slippage than distance swimmers the distance swimmers would adopt the same changes as efficiency is "more important" in distance swimming - because sprinters can trade some efficiency for more speed over a shorter distance.
At Terry pointed out, I botched the wording of this, efficiency should always be used with respect to some measure, in this case I used it with respect to slippage, as indicated by the / in the sentence. This meaning was completely lost when Terry only quoted half the sentence. I meant to say:
If sprinters found a way to reduce their slippage, despite the greater force they apply, the distance swimmers would adopt the same technique.
But I should have qualified it even further to restrict the discussion to changes in the pull, as we know sprinters will use a very strong kick, despite it's energy cost, because speed, not total energy used or minimal slippage, is the goal. With a strong enough kick one can reduce slippage to zero, although with a very likely loss of speed as zero slippage will occur at the point where zero force is applied.
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The basic laws of hydrodynamics tell us that as you apply more force (as sprinters do) the water will give way faster, i.e. more slippage will occur. If there were a way for sprinters to swim more efficiently/with less slippage than distance swimmers the distance swimmers would adopt the same changes as efficiency is "more important" in distance swimming - because sprinters can trade some efficiency for more speed over a shorter distance.
At Terry pointed out, I botched the wording of this, efficiency should always be used with respect to some measure, in this case I used it with respect to slippage, as indicated by the / in the sentence. This meaning was completely lost when Terry only quoted half the sentence. I meant to say:
If sprinters found a way to reduce their slippage, despite the greater force they apply, the distance swimmers would adopt the same technique.
But I should have qualified it even further to restrict the discussion to changes in the pull, as we know sprinters will use a very strong kick, despite it's energy cost, because speed, not total energy used or minimal slippage, is the goal. With a strong enough kick one can reduce slippage to zero, although with a very likely loss of speed as zero slippage will occur at the point where zero force is applied.
