Power lifting makes me look like a tank ... at least relative to my old pre-swimming self. (I added that caveat for Smith.) So I guess I'll stop a teensy short of maximizing my potential. In any event, "maximizing your potential" is an awfully tall or abstract order for masters swimmers with lives and responsibilities. Just gotta do the best you can do given your circumstances. On the upside, at the moment, I'll be able to take down my skinny little cross country runner when he crashes the car.
I'd be curious to compare how I do one season with lifting and one season without. I still think my best meet was last August and I wasn't lifting much then. Perhaps lifting is more important for short course.
I officially quit! I don't want to swim faster. I am much more concerned with negative changes in my appearance that I'm imagining. I'm feeling the effects of lifting, and I don't want to pay my dues so I can be much faster when I'm rested.
Suit yourself.
I officially quit! I don't want to get stronger. I just want to not look and feel like a tank. Its torture to swim and run when I lift like this. Lifting heavy, for me, is like being married to the wrong person. From now on, I'm all about the core work. The rest of you carry on and I'll read about your exploits!
I understand how you feel.
However, that's actually a pretty nifty lookin' tank you got there.
In terms of getting motivated to get stronger and more tank-like, have you considered growing a penis?
In terms of getting motivated to get stronger and more tank-like, have you considered growing a penis?
That would be an interesting look in Fort's FS Pro.
Fort,you set your self up for grief by telling us you were quitting lifting.You should have said that you had been lifting so much you needed a REALLY long taper(like the rest of your life.):notworking:
Seriously,listen to your body.You already have one burnout experience from swimming and don't need another.You want to swim for life and if lifting messes up your motivation,don't!
In terms of getting motivated to get stronger and more tank-like, have you considered growing a penis?
:doh::doh::doh:
Was that REALLY necessary?
Now I need brain floss
I thought you didn't let yourself get completely torn down.
I'm never not torn down...I'm old school but I recognize and accept that...and am confident in knowing how to rest and heal myself for a tapered meet. Unlike some I've never personally felt how fast or how far I swam in workout was the ultimate measure of how good I was.
Had a very interesting and enjoyable conversation about this today with Ron Johnson...don;t worry (S)he he's someone who has been so successful...but because he's older probably (vs. the younger college swimmers) not someone you would be interested in listening to.
Anyway, the discussion was about how swimmers like Hansen at UT is swimming like crap (2:13 200 *** recently) because he's torn down, tired and will focus on the end results...which he has typically done well in.....vs. some of the "new school" folks who swim fast all the time but take smaller drops or don't drop in their tapers. Won't go into the details but will say that in the betting pool I'm in on Trials I'm openly biased to the old school gals/guys.
Along those lines does GHJ, the 6th fastest man in the US going into the trials (in the 50) man up and make the team?
PS; Fort...love the new avatar!
Oh good, I've felt like crap since Nationals. An old fashioned taper is great, but you have to have the big meet and fast pool to do it in. We don't all go to Nats every season!
I am so strong now that I just won the wrestling match with my Nero comp! Holy sh@t that was hard to get on. Feels very different from the Pro.
I'm never not torn down...I'm old school but I recognize and accept that...and am confident in knowing how to rest and heal myself for a tapered meet. Unlike some I've never personally felt how fast or how far I swam in workout was the ultimate measure of how good I was.
Had a very interesting and enjoyable conversation about this today with Ron Johnson...don;t worry (S)he he's someone who has been so successful...but because he's older probably (vs. the younger college swimmers) not someone you would be interested in listening to.
Anyway, the discussion was about how swimmers like Hansen at UT is swimming like crap (2:13 200 *** recently) because he's torn down, tired and will focus on the end results...which he has typically done well in.....vs. some of the "new school" folks who swim fast all the time but take smaller drops or don't drop in their tapers. Won't go into the details but will say that in the betting pool I'm in on Trials I'm openly biased to the old school gals/guys.
Along those lines does GHJ, the 6th fastest man in the US going into the trials (in the 50) man up and make the team?
PS; Fort...love the new avatar!
I officially quit! I don't want to get stronger. I just want to not look and feel like a tank. Its torture to swim and run when I lift like this. Lifting heavy, for me, is like being married to the wrong person. From now on, I'm all about the core work. The rest of you carry on and I'll read about your exploits!
