from the PacMasters Update Email
Ross Shoemaker, RIP
1942-2007
Ross Shoemaker died suddenly at the Senior Games following one of his swims. Ross had collapsed on the deck, and was not able to be revived. It is a terrible loss - Ross was a longtime member of the San Mateo Marlins, a warm and supportive man, and a devoted swimmer with an encouraging word for everyone.
Ross coached at Chabot Junior College for many years. Services are pending.
I don't think I need to point out the frequncy with which these unfortunate events have been occuring recently. Should active swimmers be getting stress echos or something as they get older? Are simple BP and lipid screens simply not enough?
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Getting in a hot tub after a workout my give my youthful heart more than it could handle. Sheesh!
Well yeah usually it's a case of feeling like passing out etc...not heart failure...I wouldn't hot tub until after breathing had returned to normal and I'd spent a few mins loafing in the main pool...
Sure. Sleep is also more dangerous than driving drunk.
What did I do with that bottle of Tanqueray anyhow?
The drunk guy does seem to be they one to survive more often then not, but the others involved are so lucky. My guess, its the relaxation factor on the part of the drunk driver.
That is correct--the cardiovascular benefits derive from moderate exercise.
I pondered this overnight and also chatted it up (albeit in 15-20 second intervals) this morning at practice.
So, if I swim 10 X 100 on 2:00, which is a super cruise, I'm getting the same benefit as a harder 10 X 100 on 1:10? Please help me understand. It would seem to me that if I'm working harder that I would get more benefit but maybe that's not the case.
Matt, I am pretty sure that fellow-who-used-to-post-here-and-was-the-fastest-in-the-world-of-people-with-his-precise-background outed you as a wimp long ago. He pegged me as a socialist, so I say just throw someone else's money at the problem.
Matt, I am pretty sure that fellow-who-used-to-post-here-and-was-the-fastest-in-the-world-of-people-with-his-precise-background outed you as a wimp long ago. He pegged me as a socialist, so I say just throw someone else's money at the problem.
Very good Peter! LOL! That was a nice trip down memory lane. :)
Thanks for that info. Maybe a more strenuous set has training benefit then - the old adage you have to swim fast to swim fast? There has to be some benefit to swimming harder and faster sets, right, please (maybe not cardiovascularly but from a training persepctive)? Otherwise, I'm gonna rethink my whole training routine. Then, you'll tell me I can be fat and fit so I can go back to living soley on Doritos and ice cream.
This is good info and free advice from a doctor a definite benefit to us all. If only he wrote peotry as well.
Well my diet of a nightly bowl of vanilla ice cream, cadbury's chocolate (if my kids don't eat it...their loss) and fabulous Tasty Kakes from PA, has not had a negative impact for me. I think you can be fat and fast...
Well, how do you know? You drop 20 pounds you might be a lot faster. You may be fat and fast but you could be less fat and faster. Lugging around a bunch of extra weight also impacts endurance and stroke mechanics, in my opinion.
I read the other day that if you do as little as 15 minutes of high intensity activity a week, you can boost your metabolism, burn more calories and increase fitness. You can obviously burn more calories if you work harder. So, while there be no incremental cardio benefit from increasing the intensity of the workout, there are other benefits. I do some moderate stuff, but I'd lose my mind with boredom if that's all I did. I guess the downside of upping the intensity is that you are more injury prone.
In seriousness I agree, a slightly sleeker me might go faster but the weight loss process would probably be too taxing on me to the point that I'd weaken myself.
I can only assume this is also a joke. Losing weight too taxing on a person? What about the overall health benefits, forget the swim benefits only.
I definitely think a doctor should be involved with a weight loss and/or athletic program but I doubt there are many doctors who would state that weight loss would be too taxing to consider. Who knows, maybe it would be.
