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?
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GC
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Would she be a modern-day 12 or was she a 12 in the fifties? I've noticed that a size 6 sure is a lot bigger than it was 25 years ago. If she was a size 12 in the fifties/early sixties, I bet that today, she would be a size 8 or even a size 6.
My mom told me she was a size 12 in the fifties and her measurements were 36-24-36. Wonder what size this would be now.
I thought Marilyn was a fifties size 16? Retail (vanity) clothing sizes are all over the map, with no consistency any more. They used to be the same as sewing pattern sizes, which have remained unchanged since the 70's. I think 36-28-38 is still a pattern size 12, but more like an 8 in modern ready-to-wear. The numbering of "Misses" sizing was originally meant to reflect the approximate age of the wearer, and by age 20 you were supposed to be an old married lady and into "Womens" sizing. (What would they have thought about size 0? Newborn baby?) Hence the small dimensions of a 1950's size 14:
cemetarian.com/.../pgm-more_information.php
When I was a skinny runner back in the eighties, I caught every cold and flu that came along and felt tired most of the time. Probably overtraining, I know, but now that I'm large I never seem to get sick any more and feel much more energetic. The sciatic pain has gone as well.
Would she be a modern-day 12 or was she a 12 in the fifties? I've noticed that a size 6 sure is a lot bigger than it was 25 years ago. If she was a size 12 in the fifties/early sixties, I bet that today, she would be a size 8 or even a size 6.
My mom told me she was a size 12 in the fifties and her measurements were 36-24-36. Wonder what size this would be now.
I thought Marilyn was a fifties size 16? Retail (vanity) clothing sizes are all over the map, with no consistency any more. They used to be the same as sewing pattern sizes, which have remained unchanged since the 70's. I think 36-28-38 is still a pattern size 12, but more like an 8 in modern ready-to-wear. The numbering of "Misses" sizing was originally meant to reflect the approximate age of the wearer, and by age 20 you were supposed to be an old married lady and into "Womens" sizing. (What would they have thought about size 0? Newborn baby?) Hence the small dimensions of a 1950's size 14:
cemetarian.com/.../pgm-more_information.php
When I was a skinny runner back in the eighties, I caught every cold and flu that came along and felt tired most of the time. Probably overtraining, I know, but now that I'm large I never seem to get sick any more and feel much more energetic. The sciatic pain has gone as well.
