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When someone beats my times by a lot, I pay attention - especially when they talk about cardio-vascular health. Thus, I found this to be interesting: www.usms.org/.../ Besides his unique swimming philosophy of quality, not quantity, Schmidt is a great believer in nutritional therapies. In fact, it was nutrition that finally helped rid him of the persistent irregular heart rhythms that took him out of swimming for sixteen years ... He is a strong advocate of taking supplements, and believes they are a key to his success in swimming. "I believe every athlete should be taking certain nutrients for cardioprotection, and this is especially true for those of us over 40." He adds, "magnesium and potassium are essential for normal cardiac rhythm and recovery, as well as maintaining blood pressure and preventing diabetes, but most Americans (90%, according to government studies) are deficient in magnesium. Coenzyme Q10 is used to create energy in every cell of the body, and especially in the heart. Those who take CoQ10 are four times less likely to die the first year after a heart attack. What's more important, in my opinion, is that these nutrients will likely prevent the heart attack in the first place, and those of us who stress our hearts need them even more." He also takes antioxidants, amino acids and other nutrients shown to improve oxygen capacity. That said, there's perhaps more to this. Correct me if I'm wrong, but: those of us who are not kids with lightning-fast metabolisms will need more time to recover, especially if the workout includes a lot of swimming at or over the lactate threshold that leads to depletion of muscle glycogen. Isn't this one of the reasons that some coaches (and books) suggest "recovery" days in which the workouts emphasize aerobic sets (as in, working in En1 v. En2 or En3 - or, Aerobic 1-3, depending on which book you read)? In other words, isn't it not just what you eat, but also how you arrange your workouts to allow recovery as well as working each of the energy systems?

When someone beats my times by a lot, I pay attention - especially when they talk about cardio-vascular health. Thus, I found this to be interesting: www.usms.org/.../ Besides his unique swimming philosophy of quality, not quantity, Schmidt is a great believer in nutritional therapies. In fact, it was nutrition that finally helped rid him of the persistent irregular heart rhythms that took him out of swimming for sixteen years ... He is a strong advocate of taking supplements, and believes they are a key to his success in swimming. "I believe every athlete should be taking certain nutrients for cardioprotection, and this is especially true for those of us over 40." He adds, "magnesium and potassium are essential for normal cardiac rhythm and recovery, as well as maintaining blood pressure and preventing diabetes, but most Americans (90%, according to government studies) are deficient in magnesium. Coenzyme Q10 is used to create energy in every cell of the body, and especially in the heart. Those who take CoQ10 are four times less likely to die the first year after a heart attack. What's more important, in my opinion, is that these nutrients will likely prevent the heart attack in the first place, and those of us who stress our hearts need them even more." He also takes antioxidants, amino acids and other nutrients shown to improve oxygen capacity. That said, there's perhaps more to this. Correct me if I'm wrong, but: those of us who are not kids with lightning-fast metabolisms will need more time to recover, especially if the workout includes a lot of swimming at or over the lactate threshold that leads to depletion of muscle glycogen. Isn't this one of the reasons that some coaches (and books) suggest "recovery" days in which the workouts emphasize aerobic sets (as in, working in En1 v. En2 or En3 - or, Aerobic 1-3, depending on which book you read)? In other words, isn't it not just what you eat, but also how you arrange your workouts to allow recovery as well as working each of the energy systems?