Swimming Cats and Dogs

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Former Member — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 16:52:14 GMT

findarticles.com/.../ai_n14879156 This article talks about Salo's approach. dead link

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Elaine Krugman — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 10:31:21 GMT

photos of 5 dogs swimming underwater The Joy of Water... Through a Dog's Eyes by Becky Kellogg www.weather.com/.../slideshow-underwater-dogs_2012-02-16 Fabulous photos; those are a HOOT! :lmao:

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Former Member — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 07:58:49 GMT

Fabulous photos; those are a HOOT! :lmao: photos of 5 dogs swimming underwater The Joy of Water... Through a Dog's Eyes by Becky Kellogg www.weather.com/.../weath...ogs_2012-02-16 OP's Morning Show link: www.swimmingworldmagazine.com/.../17590.asp

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Rich Abrahams — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 03:15:25 GMT

Kip, Try this link to the original Bill Boomer interview. vodpod.com/.../4083819-mss-bill-boomer

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Brian Stack — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 02:48:02 GMT

dead link Not surprising since the post was made in '08.

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Former Member — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 16:50:15 GMT

How is Ous an example? Doesn't he train with Dave Salo? Just a conjecture based on what minimal second hand info I had overheard. I have no info on Salo's training methods... I was hoping to get somone to suggest a more concrete example of a "cat" successful in the distance event realm, as it does not seem possible. Obviously, an example would prove it to be possible.

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Former Member — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 10:25:49 GMT

findarticles.com/.../ai_n14879156 This article talks about Salo's approach.

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Former Member — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 05:40:23 GMT

I suspect any sprinter who has lived through a "train everyone for the 1500 and 400IM" program will like his ideas. :agree: Hey, you know... I remember Ron Vordough (sp?), his events were the 400 IM and 1500 free... He later specialized in the 400 free and 200 free... We trained side by side for 4+ years... There was one set I remember clearly, 16x400 on 4:30... I made it to about the 12th or 13th repetition...

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Former Member — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 16:14:08 GMT

You know Lindsay, I really liked that interview... He's talking about training the physiological systems that are best suited for each swimmer. For sure...

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Former Member — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 15:18:34 GMT

You know Lindsay, I really liked that interview... I suspect any sprinter who has lived through a "train everyone for the 1500 and 400IM" program will like his ideas. :agree:

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Former Member — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 12:44:24 GMT

How is Ous an example? Doesn't he train with Dave Salo?

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Former Member — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 08:57:18 GMT

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.

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ViveBene — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 08:22:21 GMT

He's talking about training the physiological systems that are best suited for each swimmer. For sure... I'll try to view it on a different machine. Sounds interesting. Quite a lot of experimental work has been done with swimming mice and orienteering, with applications to human visual system. Regards, VB

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Former Member — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 11:32:08 GMT

How about a fox, the cat-like canine?

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Former Member — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 10:51:00 GMT

Erik Vendt is a prime example of a dog if you ask me, and I think a lot of the Mission Viejo guys would match that as well.

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Former Member — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 09:53:51 GMT

He did not say that training swimmers either way was wrong. I think he said that training a "cat" like a he / she was a "dog" was wrong. It's not that hard to figure out who is who -- the Race Club trains Cats. I have even heard an interview with Mike Bottom referring to this. If you hear about the long yardage people do - think dog (for the most part). Many coaches now do a mix.

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ViveBene — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 09:21:12 GMT

Ted Erikson, the famed long distance swimmer, with his dog Umbra, in the Guinness Book of World Records. According to legend, Umbra swam behind Ted and nipped his heels whenever Ted flagged. :) http://www.sdogv.com/swim.html Should be some videos at that link, but it is utterly hopeless with a dialup so I didn't check. Regards, VB