Dara Torres-Amazing

...A person could dope all they want, but that does not give them technical effeciency, especially in the water. Torres program is very in-depth, and very swimming specific. Her meridian strength program recruits a different kind of muscle, muscle that is better adapted to the requirements of swimming; stretching under pressure, precisely what you need in the water. Drugs will never give someone that, it must be earned through years of training.... I'm inclined to agree - sprinting probably requires even more technical expertise than distance racing. I completely respect sprinters, having seen how quickly my stroke falls apart when I try to go even a little bit faster. Quote: "It's very difficult for my body to recover after workouts now that I'm older, so we have to keep them short, which means they're extremely difficult and intense. It sucks. I can't sit here and say that it's been easy making this comeback. It hasn't. I mean, there are days when I feel like I'm swimming with a piano on my back and I'm going to sink." This matches up with a previous thread on masters athletes and training, the finding that short intense efforts maintain fitness better than long slow distance and that the body produces it's own natural HGH when older athletes train this way.

...A person could dope all they want, but that does not give them technical effeciency, especially in the water. Torres program is very in-depth, and very swimming specific. Her meridian strength program recruits a different kind of muscle, muscle that is better adapted to the requirements of swimming; stretching under pressure, precisely what you need in the water. Drugs will never give someone that, it must be earned through years of training.... I'm inclined to agree - sprinting probably requires even more technical expertise than distance racing. I completely respect sprinters, having seen how quickly my stroke falls apart when I try to go even a little bit faster. Quote: "It's very difficult for my body to recover after workouts now that I'm older, so we have to keep them short, which means they're extremely difficult and intense. It sucks. I can't sit here and say that it's been easy making this comeback. It hasn't. I mean, there are days when I feel like I'm swimming with a piano on my back and I'm going to sink." This matches up with a previous thread on masters athletes and training, the finding that short intense efforts maintain fitness better than long slow distance and that the body produces it's own natural HGH when older athletes train this way.