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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Swimming adds muscle to the delts, creates more sweep in the lats, and tones the muscles of the misdsection and this all adds to the appearance of a narrow waist and width at the shoulder.
That's no myth...I think that is what you were inferring though.
That's no myth...I think that is what you were inferring though.
Yes you're right Matt...making your shoulders wider is a sort of myth...actually making them wider is perhaps debatable--depending how you wish to define making them wider.
Swimming does however make them musclier (new word?) and appear to be wider as I described..for stocky guys like me this is a neat trick. :drink:
Well, I did have to buy new "shoulder holders" to store this illusion in since I've been swimming. I guess I'll have to go get shoulder lipo along with my shoulder prolo. I refuse to believe swimming does anything for your inner thighs though. :joker:
:rofl: Shoulder Lipo; that's a good one. And you added another myth even though you don't believe it and that is swimming not doing anything for your inner thighs; it does if you swim breaststroke---your almost new best stroke.
Give that one a whirl, you don't need a breathing pattern :joker:.
Yes you're right Matt...making your shoulders wider is a sort of myth...actually making them wider is perhaps debatable--depending how you wish to define making them wider.
Swimming does however make them musclier (new word?) and appear to be wider as I described..for stocky guys like me this is a neat trick. :drink:
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.
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:
I guess it is just that you eat more than you spend while swimming. But you tone your muscles and look better. Here is the deal: swimming will make you lose weight, but it takes too much time if you are not in it full time or as a student, college whatever. Running or weights or cycling on the other hand takes less time to spend more energy. I lost once 12 pounds true weight over a two week period walking up and down mountains for a minimum 10 to a maximum 25 miles every day. A couple of months later I got it all back. Walking will make you lose weight, if you walk about 6 hours a day. billy fanstone
P.S. The lipo thing, it is done in your arm pits and areas around, when you are doing *** surgery. They even lipo suck you in the back. I am talking from a perspective of someone who is participating actively in this activity by making sure no pain is felt during all this lipo sucking away.
so what is it about swimming that makes it avoid the laws of thermodynamics?
hmm I 've gone from 193 to 180 since Thanksgiving. I've eaten well not avoided anything and swam 3x a week for about 2000-2500Y a swim.
I've worked hard about I'll extend the rest here and there if I'm dragging. I guess we are all different.
I guess it is just that you eat more than you spend while swimming. But you tone your muscles and look better. Here is the deal: swimming will make you lose weight, but it takes too much time if you are not in it full time or as a student, college whatever. Running or weights or cycling on the other hand takes less time to spend more energy. I lost once 12 pounds true weight over a two week period walking up and down mountains for a minimum 10 to a maximum 25 miles every day. A couple of months later I got it all back. Walking will make you lose weight, if you walk about 6 hours a day. billy fanstone
Yikes!!! I would rather swim 10 miles than walk it. I use swimming as transportation down here.:D
Carbo loading is a myth?!? I did not know that - I still carbo load before meets. Is that bad?
I wondered about this, too. We need a nutrition expert to give us the scoop. I thought carbs were the way to go pre-meet.
