Here's a thread for the ladies to discuss anything that relates to women and swimming. For example, feel free to discuss how disgustingly ugly fastskins are, how the "curse" can kill a meet, how suits don't fit, how swimming wrecks your hair, how hormones unhinge you, etc.
It would be interesting to see if bikram yoga would have a positive effect on swimming. I suspect it would not be terribly important for sprints, but it could really affect long distance stuff of the sort Andre mentioned.
You would think hot yoga would be more effective than passive sauna exposure. But then again, a lot of what seems intuitively correct is not always so.
More study needed!
Some endurance athletes use saunas for heat adaptation. I've even heard of people exercising in the sauna, doing stuff like running in place for 10 minutes. If you live in a moderate climate and you're training for an event like Ironman Hawaii or the Badwater 135, you need to find a way to get used to the heat. Take your run at the hottest part of the day, schedule a training camp somewhere hot, etc. One of the reasons that Ironman Arizona moved from April to November was so that athletes from cooler parts of the country could train for it in the summer, rather than the winter. BIG difference.
It would be interesting to see if bikram yoga would have a positive effect on swimming. I suspect it would not be terribly important for sprints, but it could really affect long distance stuff of the sort Andre mentioned.
You would think hot yoga would be more effective than passive sauna exposure. But then again, a lot of what seems intuitively correct is not always so.
More study needed!
Some endurance athletes use saunas for heat adaptation. I've even heard of people exercising in the sauna, doing stuff like running in place for 10 minutes. If you live in a moderate climate and you're training for an event like Ironman Hawaii or the Badwater 135, you need to find a way to get used to the heat. Take your run at the hottest part of the day, schedule a training camp somewhere hot, etc. One of the reasons that Ironman Arizona moved from April to November was so that athletes from cooler parts of the country could train for it in the summer, rather than the winter. BIG difference.
