For several years the USMS Sports Medicine and Science Committee has been arranging presentations that are given during national championship meets. Leading professionals provide information on various sports science and medicine topics.
The committee is interested in finding out what medical and scientific topics related to swimming, training, and health you are interested in hearing about.
Please post your requests and we will design upcoming presentations around the most popular topics.
Thanks for your input.
Jane Moore, MD
Chair, USMS Sports Medicine and Science Committee
Former Member
I am interested in nutrition and regret missing the talks at nationals last summer. I was back at my hotel taking refuge from the heat.
I'm pretty sure the risk of dying is stable at 100 percent.
A sedentary man dies but once. A swimmer, especially one trying really hard in the 200 freestyle, dies at every meet he attends.
And if last night was any indication, many of the practices, as well.
Nevertheless, good point, Mr. Hands. I suppose what the study illuminates if the risk of premature dying.
My former club and coaching position was Davis Aquatic Masters in Northern California. I try to keep tabs on them and have been inspired watching their new head coach, Stu Kahn, take over the program.
THE MAN HAS GOALS FOR HIS SWIMMERS!
Not only did he re-inspire the masses (500 members) to over a million yards in the 1-Hour Swim, but he has made this pitch in the current newsletter:
TEST SET 50’
My 5-year Goal for DAM is to make connections between our swim program and
1) the National Center for Aging in Arizona and
2) The Counsilman Center for the Science of Swimming in Indiana.
Both Centers are actively pursuing research into the Aging, Health and Well Being of United States Masters.
Those connections would place DAM, one of the largest
Masters teams in America, at the forefront of their studies. Not knowing which biological or physiological markers they’d be most interested in down the road, and just to get us going with a starting point for gathering basic swimming data, I chose the Test Set of 50’s as an efficiency baseline.
We’ll re-test freestyle again in about 6 months, as well as gather similar data over the next year for the 50’s of the other strokes, as well.
See full newsletter here:
www.damfast.org/.../dec2008.pdf
A sedentary man dies but once. A swimmer, especially one trying really hard in the 200 freestyle, dies at every meet he attends.
And if last night was any indication, many of the practices, as well.
Nevertheless, good point, Mr. Hands. I suppose what the study illuminates if the risk of premature dying.
Or the risk of dying within the time window studied, in the population studied. That's hard to generalize from, though. A more useful stat would be the expected increase in lifespan from swimming.
