Swimming Myths

Here's one I'm sure most of us can appreciate: Beating someone consistently in practice is a good indicator you'll also beat them in a meet.

Fort- Try sets of streamline breaststroke kick on your back--knees cannot break surface of the water. Do three sets of 10x 25 mixed in with other BS drills and call me in a day or two. If you don't feel it in your inner thighs, you ain't doin' it right! We do these with the kids on the first night of "breaststroke week" and by the third night, I can't move my legs to kick. I've done this before! But there is only so much time for stuff and so much stuff to do. Like fly drills. Plus, I only swim one length of breaststroke per meet. I guess I'm left with lipo ...:rofl: Do squats and lunges help the inner thighs? I still think they're pretty resistant. As for you male shoulder gurus, FlyQueen and I have privately confered and we think you are all nuts. Swimming keeps us trim, but grows our shoulders. End of story. If you don't believe us, buy us new tops. Conversely, when I quit swimming in college, my shoulders shrunk. I don't care where the heck the bones or whatever are. The overall width is broader. Fortunately, as some have stated, there are some intelligent men who like broad shoulders and swimmer bodies. It's incredibly frightening that 40% of Americans are 100 pounds overweight. I don't see it where I live. Lotta runners around here. They must eat junk food 24/7 to put on the kind of poundage. People are just not that naturally overweight.

Fortunately, as some have stated, there are some intelligent men who like broad shoulders and swimmer bodies. Yay for female swimmer bodies, broad shulders and all.:applaud: It's incredibly frightening that 40% of Americans are 100 pounds overweight. I don't see it where I live. Lotta runners around here. They must eat junk food 24/7 to put on the kind of poundage. People are just not that naturally overweight. I see it here all the time. Especially on the reservation.

Here is a master's myth (also works for young ones): you will swim faster if you have a fastskin, even if it is old and worn out, cheapo or one you got from your college kid who no longer is using it since it is so old! Wearing a cap (irrespectable of rules and hygienic concerns) will make you faster. If it is one of those european newer caps with some designs or stuff on the outside that will make you faster.

The reason I mentioned they were from England was because this would normally be something a Honduran would say, they have a thousand old wives' tales, some you just can't believe; I could write a book on their tall tales. Someone has already stolen your idea for the book: http://tinyurl.com/2z638f Good old England. We have all the best mind numbingly stupid myths: My hairdresser told me that my hair would fall out if I didn't wear a swimming cap. If you urinate in the pool it turns purple because of a special dye. And my old swimming coach would tell anybody who listened that people of African descent / ethnicity could not swim well because of a 'special bone' in their foot. He had a whole long list of other such ethnically based 'facts'. My favourite though is a salesman in a shop where I was trying to buy a suit. He complained that my arms and legs were both too long and that my feet were too big for any of his merchandise to fit me. All of which he blamed on swimming.

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 had just the opposite experience.:mad: Because of a nerve problem in my left arm I had to cut out swimming since the start of the year. I've done a lot of kick sets and some other stuff, but still managed to gain 10 pounds.

Hi ljlete: Yeah, but walking 6 to 8 hours in the alps with talking, picnic stops and the views is a lot easier than swimming for 6 to 8 hours. That is my point. When I was in high school, during the three months of winter we swam about 5,000 yards every afternoon. I could eat all I could and I did. I have a friend who trains for Ironman distance triathlons. He has to ingest at least 10,000 calories per day. It is all a math equation. Also, as you mentioned, if you do one hour of intervarls or sprints you spend more than one hour easy swimming. The question here is that swimming as your only exercise within a reasonable time and effort is not as good for losing weight as weight lifting and/or running. But you are also right in that my upper body muscles have all hardened up. (oops, tricky word there!) and thus even though I am at the same weight I look thinner or look "better". billy fanstone

Girls who swim have no necks their shoulders start at their heads.

My personal favorite, sung by older folks everywhere: "Swimming is so easy on your joints" :rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:

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: Fort- Try sets of streamline breaststroke kick on your back--knees cannot break surface of the water. Do three sets of 10x 25 mixed in with other BS drills and call me in a day or two. If you don't feel it in your inner thighs, you ain't doin' it right! We do these with the kids on the first night of "breaststroke week" and by the third night, I can't move my legs to kick.