Swimming World has in interesting Morning Swim Show video interview with Bill Boomer:
208.106.251.220/.../Tuesday(2008-03-25).wmv
It's too bad that he didn't give an example of a well known "swimming dog", or come out and just say that training swimmers that way just doesn't work.
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Kate Ziegler seems to be an example of a dog. She seems to thrive on volume yardage.
Is it possible to be a "distance cat?" Ous Mellouli comes to mind as a possibility, but I think its rare.
I don't really have a lot of info, so I'm just arm-chairing this, of course.
I was definitley trained as a dog until age 17. Experienced some success, but burned out and then had a major breakthrough 400 IM swim after training which, in retrospect, must have been much more catlike. For me that meant dropping from 2 x a day to 1, and swimming very hard/fast in that one workout.
I suppose that argues that I am a middle distance cat, but I don't think a distance cat, and am sure not a sprinter-cat.
Kate Ziegler seems to be an example of a dog. She seems to thrive on volume yardage.
Is it possible to be a "distance cat?" Ous Mellouli comes to mind as a possibility, but I think its rare.
I don't really have a lot of info, so I'm just arm-chairing this, of course.
I was definitley trained as a dog until age 17. Experienced some success, but burned out and then had a major breakthrough 400 IM swim after training which, in retrospect, must have been much more catlike. For me that meant dropping from 2 x a day to 1, and swimming very hard/fast in that one workout.
I suppose that argues that I am a middle distance cat, but I don't think a distance cat, and am sure not a sprinter-cat.
