Hi all - I have an odd post for you to ponder :)
Recently I've decided enough is enough and it's time to shift some unwanted poundage. Over the past few months through exercise and eating much better I've dropped about 15% of my original body weight, going from 207lbs to 175lbs. At the same time I've been swimming a bit and making an effort to keep on some muscle too.
I know it's a very very hard question to answer but am looking for people's estimates on what this sort of weight loss would do to your swimming time over longer distances if I was able to keep everything else static (stroke, flexibility, strengtht etc). The only difference if possible would be there would be less body weight, and hopefully a better shape for moving through the water.
I know that due to water being denser it's not as easy to say as it would be in relation to running etc, but say over a 5km open water swim, what would people guess the % improvement would be as a result of this?
Cheers
GC
it totally depends on the clothing brand, but someone with those measurements today would wear somewhere between a 4 and a 6. Over the years clothing manufacturers, catering to women's tendency to want to be smaller, started changing the sizing on their garments. This practice is called "vanity sizing" and lets a large-ish woman claim that she wears a size 10. THis practice has led to preposterous sizing at the lower end of the scale. Sizes for the truly tiny are now 0 and 00. People haven;t gotten smaller over the years, yet now we have size 0 and 00 where they never existed before just because the upper-end numbers are now labeled with lower size designations.
While MM's weight fluctuated widely, one look at her pics will show that there's no way that woman was EVER a "Modern" size 12. Even I don't wear that size, and at 5'5 and 150 pounds, I'm no Marilyn Monroe!
it totally depends on the clothing brand, but someone with those measurements today would wear somewhere between a 4 and a 6. Over the years clothing manufacturers, catering to women's tendency to want to be smaller, started changing the sizing on their garments. This practice is called "vanity sizing" and lets a large-ish woman claim that she wears a size 10. THis practice has led to preposterous sizing at the lower end of the scale. Sizes for the truly tiny are now 0 and 00. People haven;t gotten smaller over the years, yet now we have size 0 and 00 where they never existed before just because the upper-end numbers are now labeled with lower size designations.
While MM's weight fluctuated widely, one look at her pics will show that there's no way that woman was EVER a "Modern" size 12. Even I don't wear that size, and at 5'5 and 150 pounds, I'm no Marilyn Monroe!
