Full article, with photos and video:
www.nytimes.com/.../29torres-t.html
A Swimmer of a Certain Age
By ELIZABETH WEIL
Published: June 29, 2008
NEAR THE WARM-UP POOL AT THE Missouri Grand Prix swim meet, in Columbia, a crop of Olympic hopefuls lolled around in practice suits and towels on a Saturday morning in February. Fully clothed among them stood some relics of Olympics past: Scott Goldblatt, who won a gold medal in the 2004 Games, wore an aqua sport coat and a striped tie and was doing on-air commentary for Swimnetwork.com; Mel Stewart, who won two golds and a bronze in 1992, wore the same goofy get-up, working as Goldblatt’s sidekick. Meanwhile, Dara Torres, who won the first of her nine Olympic medals in 1984, a year before Michael Phelps was born, stripped off her baggy T-shirt and sweat pants, revealing a breathtaking body in a magenta Speedo. She pulled on a cap marked with her initials and prepared to swim. Torres is now 41 and the mother of a 2-year-old daughter, Tessa Grace. She broke her first of three world records in 1982, at 14, and she has retired from swimming and come back three times, her latest effort built on an obsessive attention to her aging body....
Funny you should post about this Fort. As I was reading the magazine article yesterday I was thinking of the conversations between you and Paul.
I think some of the things Dara is said to be doing in her training sound innovative and I would absolutely experiment with them...as I've said many times I'm open to trying almost anything.
However my discussions about this subject here and with Fort are more basic...if your doing little, no or the same old strength training than almost any increase in effort and change in types of exercises used are going to help.
The strength training routine that Laura and I used and shared with Fort was based of what the U of A & ASU college teams have been doing in recent years and that involves a lot of Olympic style lifts with a goal of increasing explosiveness...the weight training is only part of the picture however, what you don't see and hasn't been discussed so much on this thread are the core exercises being done as well.
Funny you should post about this Fort. As I was reading the magazine article yesterday I was thinking of the conversations between you and Paul.
I think some of the things Dara is said to be doing in her training sound innovative and I would absolutely experiment with them...as I've said many times I'm open to trying almost anything.
However my discussions about this subject here and with Fort are more basic...if your doing little, no or the same old strength training than almost any increase in effort and change in types of exercises used are going to help.
The strength training routine that Laura and I used and shared with Fort was based of what the U of A & ASU college teams have been doing in recent years and that involves a lot of Olympic style lifts with a goal of increasing explosiveness...the weight training is only part of the picture however, what you don't see and hasn't been discussed so much on this thread are the core exercises being done as well.
