Really interesting article re: the cost for college teams to try and stay even w/other teams that can afford to supply their swimmers w/the new suits.
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"Most troubling to coaches, the suits seem to help the flabby, lazier swimmers the most, because their fat gets compressed but remains more buoyant than dense muscle, allowing them to float higher in the water and swim faster."
AKA Tech Suits are a GOD SEND for Masters SWIMMERS
Okay, I chuckled at Ande's comment. But why do I just feel like I and the rest of my fellow masters swimmers were called "flabby and lazy?!" :afraid:
I have to say I can't believe schools like Auburn, Texas, UGA have any flabby swimmers, to She-Puff's points. I've seen a few of these guys and gals around in the Summer and during the Holidays and flabby isn't exactly what I would call them. I'd use terms like ripped, tall, fast, etc.
This wouldn't be such a big issue with college teams shelling out $$$ for the suits if they compared the amount of money allotted to swimming and diving programs for travel, equipment, and recruiting compared to the amount those universities spent on their football programs for the same....But that is another conversation for another thread.....:bitching:
This wouldn't be such a big issue with college teams shelling out $$$ for the suits if they compared the amount of money allotted to swimming and diving programs for travel, equipment, and recruiting compared to the amount those universities spent on their football programs for the same....But that is another conversation for another thread.....:bitching:
Another thread?! Previously vented in perhaps a 100 previous threads. Full of vitriol, no less. lol
Thanks, Ripple. Just another reason Jim T. will go super fast with his magic B70!
The phrase "flabby, lazier swimmers" bugs me enormously. What coach said that? Flabby does not imply lazy at all, especially among elite swimmers. Some people just carry more body fat.
OMG! I haven't even finished reading the article, but I can't believe that it boldly states that the LZR/ B70/ TYR Tracer help the "LAZY, FLABBY" swimmers MOST b/c their fat is compressed but remains more buoyant than muscle!!!
I got a chuckle out of that as well ... However, it is certainly consistent with other statements I have read and heard.
I notice that the article states that it may be "many years" before FINA makes a determination on the legality of the suits. Perhaps Mr. Thornton will have to wait longer than he thinks to witness the predicted psychological downward spiral from tech suit deprivation.
OMG! I haven't even finished reading the article, but I can't believe that it boldly states that the LZR/ B70/ TYR Tracer help the "LAZY, FLABBY" swimmers MOST b/c their fat is compressed but remains more buoyant than muscle!!!
I have to wonder why Auburn waited until the last minute to order their suits. Even I, as a low level swimmer, have some back up. However, I also see this as being a possible media ploy to psych out the other teams. . .
If they keep the suits, fine. If they ditch 'em, fine by me as well.
If the suits are supposed to help flabby swimmers, I guess that it would have done wonders for my college team because we had some major flabby swimmers the year that I swam. Of course, at that time, I was creepy up on the flabby factor after supposedly defeating those issues for 2 years . I am sure that you find a swimmer here or there on these big teams that have "flabby" issues.
I hear the water is going to be cold at Colony Zones this year.
We have long been advised to "layer" our clothing in cold conditions.
What is the current legal (I am not interested in ethical) status of suit stacking in someone who catches a chill very easily?
Would my times count if i were to, say, wear a Tyr under a FS1, under a vest of bubble wrap I've made for myself, under a borrowed B70?
Some may say this is too much. I only ask, is it legal?
Oh, and one more thing. How do you do a flip turn if you are unable to submerge yourself more than 3 or 4" underwater?
Until Colony Zones, I plan to weight lift like crazy so I will have a plausible way to explain (or explain away) any time improvements (or decrements) I may or may not see.
"Most troubling to coaches, the suits seem to help the flabby, lazier swimmers the most, because their fat gets compressed but remains more buoyant than dense muscle, allowing them to float higher in the water and swim faster."
AKA Tech Suits are a GOD SEND for Masters SWIMMERS
