Looking at one-hour results, and just finishing New England Masters SCY Championships at Harvard, how is it that older swimmers are getting faster and faster, and pretty much everyone is getting faster and faster compared to a few years ago when there seemed to be more mortal swimmers?
What are older (45+ women; at this point 65+ men) swimmers doing that keeps them at such elite levels? Weights? Extensive training? How much of both? How do they have jobs and families and train? The field of fast swimmers is getting deeper and deeper. Anyone have idea as to why?
I want to know the secrets. Are the people who race now self-selecting more and more as elite swimmers? Has everyone swum all their lives? I know to swim hard you have to train hard, but I am baffled by sudden increase in amazing fast times and so many records getting broken.
We should try this experiment.
We each continue on as we are.
However, add this in:
I use fins for some fly sets and/ or fly kicking and you don't use your fins/ mono for some kick sets. Maybe we'll each get a bit faster?! A little of both mentality. . .
I only do dolphin kick shooters or fast 50s with fins/monofin. Otherwise, I just use bare feet for kicking. I even just timed my slow flutter kicks!
We should try this experiment.
We each continue on as we are.
However, add this in:
I use fins for some fly sets and/ or fly kicking and you don't use your fins/ mono for some kick sets. Maybe we'll each get a bit faster?! A little of both mentality. . .
I only do dolphin kick shooters or fast 50s with fins/monofin. Otherwise, I just use bare feet for kicking. I even just timed my slow flutter kicks!
