How can one truly know what swimming distances one is best suited for? Can it be possible that somebody is better suited for distance but it is not showing due to low yardage in training? Are there some quick ways to figure this out?
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This one is very hard to determine.. one crude way is in the weight room which the original poster can try. Find your 1RM (one rep max, i.e. the heaviest weight you can lift just once) and then see how many times you can lift 80% of it. If you rep under 7, that usually means that muscle group has more fast twitch than slow, if you rep 12 or more, it means the muscle group is more slow twitch than fast. In between is, well, in between
Muscle fiber too...generally you are either fast twitch or slow twitch.
This one is very hard to determine.. one crude way is in the weight room which the original poster can try. Find your 1RM (one rep max, i.e. the heaviest weight you can lift just once) and then see how many times you can lift 80% of it. If you rep under 7, that usually means that muscle group has more fast twitch than slow, if you rep 12 or more, it means the muscle group is more slow twitch than fast. In between is, well, in between
Muscle fiber too...generally you are either fast twitch or slow twitch.
