In swimming, how is it that one can excel in both sprints and long distance? Is it because the distance games in swimming are only "relatively" distance games but are not really distance games from a physiologic perspective?
In the world of tracks, for example, an athlete cannot excel at both sprints and distance. Even the athletes from the two areas look different - much leaner for the distance runners and muscular for the sprinters.
I am wondering about this because whether I should focus on either the sprint or the distance as I plan to participate in the masters meet, or whether I don't have to sacrifice one for the other.
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I think triathletes miss a big advantage by only training freestyle. I find that when i even train breastroke(which takes a really freaking long time) that I do learn something that I can use in my other strokes. Pluse it is a nice diversion from the norm...even better when I pass freestyle at my local pool, using my crappy stroke.
Plus Breaststroke makes you a real swimmer and builds nice big biceps and shoulders...any old kicking stick can swim front crawl...
;)
OK and wth the bait laid out...I'm going home!
lol :D
I think triathletes miss a big advantage by only training freestyle. I find that when i even train breastroke(which takes a really freaking long time) that I do learn something that I can use in my other strokes. Pluse it is a nice diversion from the norm...even better when I pass freestyle at my local pool, using my crappy stroke.
Plus Breaststroke makes you a real swimmer and builds nice big biceps and shoulders...any old kicking stick can swim front crawl...
;)
OK and wth the bait laid out...I'm going home!
lol :D
