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.
Wow, you're really a fan of those things. Other than the risk of inflicting a serious injury on yourself or a lanemate, what is it that they provide that fins don't?
As a MF fan (who rarely gets a chance to use it), the benefits over fins are:
1) Better engagement of entire body for SDKs.
2) Works the core like no other swim drill can
3) Improved feedback on proper streamline. This one really surprised me.
Now, don't get me wrong, can the above be attained with traditional fins? Sure, but having used both, I find that the degree that each can be attained is greatly increased with a MF vs traditional fins. But that might just be me.
Paul
Wow, you're really a fan of those things. Other than the risk of inflicting a serious injury on yourself or a lanemate, what is it that they provide that fins don't?
As a MF fan (who rarely gets a chance to use it), the benefits over fins are:
1) Better engagement of entire body for SDKs.
2) Works the core like no other swim drill can
3) Improved feedback on proper streamline. This one really surprised me.
Now, don't get me wrong, can the above be attained with traditional fins? Sure, but having used both, I find that the degree that each can be attained is greatly increased with a MF vs traditional fins. But that might just be me.
Paul
