I overheard some ladies talking yesterday and instructing their kids not to get in the ocean. Here are two of their reasons: 1) they just had lunch and lady said you'll get cramps, you can't swim for an hour, and 2) your face will turn to scales while food is in your stomach.
Later, a young woman was advising me on my newest problem, leg cramps, and she told me it was impossible for me to get leg cramps because I wasn't sprinting. She said that leg cramping is caused from dehydration and only a person who sprints will get dehydrated; not distance people, so she suggested I see a doctor.
We all know these are pretty ridiculous, have you overheard anyone advising others about "their myths?" The people making these comments were from England.
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If you go swimming or if you take a bath after eating you will have a congestion and probably die! That was told to me by my grandparents (from England, duh...), one of which was a medical doctor. I was brainwashed into believing that, although I have little scientific evidence of the fact. One might say that when digesting food some of your blood is diverted to the splanctic (something like that, the digestive tract) system and so if you exercise or take a bath you might have less blood going to the brain and that would lead you to "congestion" which I think means passing out. Not much evidence there either. Hard to break growing up habits, although in the past I have been inbibing at the beach, and eating tidbits and for the purpose of cooling off I would enter the water.
Myth: broad shoulders come from swimming. Not so. It's genetic. I was born with wide shoulders, like my dad and his dad. The same myth that playing basketball makes you taller.
Non swimmers think we can't swim for 1,000 meters or more without stopping. They seem to think that swimming in the pool gives us time to rest. Some people doubt that I can truly swim 1,000 meters at a lake or ocean.
If you go swimming or if you take a bath after eating you will have a congestion and probably die! That was told to me by my grandparents (from England, duh...), one of which was a medical doctor. I was brainwashed into believing that, although I have little scientific evidence of the fact. One might say that when digesting food some of your blood is diverted to the splanctic (something like that, the digestive tract) system and so if you exercise or take a bath you might have less blood going to the brain and that would lead you to "congestion" which I think means passing out. Not much evidence there either. Hard to break growing up habits, although in the past I have been inbibing at the beach, and eating tidbits and for the purpose of cooling off I would enter the water.
Myth: broad shoulders come from swimming. Not so. It's genetic. I was born with wide shoulders, like my dad and his dad. The same myth that playing basketball makes you taller.
Non swimmers think we can't swim for 1,000 meters or more without stopping. They seem to think that swimming in the pool gives us time to rest. Some people doubt that I can truly swim 1,000 meters at a lake or ocean.
