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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Indeed. No amount of swimming is going to increase the distance from humerus to humerus, or glenoid to glenoid. I suspect that some in here might actually have narrower shoulders as a result of swimming. The wearing away of the glenohumeral cartilage will cause an ever so slight decrease in the width of ones shoulders. Enough nit picking!
As you say, what you can do is increase the amount of muscle tissue that wraps around your shoulders and thereby give the appearance of wide shoulders. For some, this can be substantial.
We're in the same camp. For me shoulder width is from the actual joint to the other joint...not the measurement between the two outermost points of the lateral deltoids.
OK Matt and I get A's for Shoulder anatomy... :banana:
Indeed. No amount of swimming is going to increase the distance from humerus to humerus, or glenoid to glenoid. I suspect that some in here might actually have narrower shoulders as a result of swimming. The wearing away of the glenohumeral cartilage will cause an ever so slight decrease in the width of ones shoulders. Enough nit picking!
As you say, what you can do is increase the amount of muscle tissue that wraps around your shoulders and thereby give the appearance of wide shoulders. For some, this can be substantial.
We're in the same camp. For me shoulder width is from the actual joint to the other joint...not the measurement between the two outermost points of the lateral deltoids.
OK Matt and I get A's for Shoulder anatomy... :banana:
