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.
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Oh come on now, I know she sneaks in the occasional quad in between rearing four children and being the CEO of two fortune 500 companies!
She actually sold the companies, which is why we can afford to do nothing but train now. And, it was only two kids, one of whom is a presedential candidate in two different countries at the same time and the other nominated for a Nobel prize in a combination of rocket science and brain surgery. Just didn't have the time to impart that kind of success to two more!
I have seen her do a run, swim, bike and weights in a continuous 5-hour session before but I didn't want to lay too much on her.
Oh come on now, I know she sneaks in the occasional quad in between rearing four children and being the CEO of two fortune 500 companies!
She actually sold the companies, which is why we can afford to do nothing but train now. And, it was only two kids, one of whom is a presedential candidate in two different countries at the same time and the other nominated for a Nobel prize in a combination of rocket science and brain surgery. Just didn't have the time to impart that kind of success to two more!
I have seen her do a run, swim, bike and weights in a continuous 5-hour session before but I didn't want to lay too much on her.
