Blog Talk
Blog Talk is a thread to recoginize, discuss, share, stuff happening in the USMS blogs, here on the general forums. Please point out certain sets, certain swims, & meet performances. Rather than have the blogs languish in obscurity.
Here's a few blogs if you're interested in:
sprinting on low yardage check out The Jazz Hands Brass Band's Fast-Twitch Freak-Out by Jazz Hands
a fast chatty female who often trains alone there's the
The FAF AFAP Digest by The Fortress
a middle distance workhorse, Masters's swimming mag's cover boy, who has a true work ethic and amazing swims in workout there's
Chris' training journal and thoughts by Chris Stevenson
an excellent mid distance traveling exec there's
Of Swimming Bondage by pwbrundage
looks like there's 59 blogs
let's talk about em
start one of your own
keep adding threads, it's a handy resourse where you can look back at previous workouts.
there's the list
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I get it wrong too.
... and then Jim showed you the error of your ways, yeah?
I like your blog - thats an impressive amount of distance you ring in each week. Thanks for keeping it updated!
Matt
I would like to invite anyone interested in the relationship between strength training and swimming performance to check out my vlog on this topic.
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Though you don't always get this sense from reading the boosters of weight lifting, there is a lot of controversy in the research community about how much, if any, good weight lifting does in terms of improving swimming speed and/or endurance.
I have posted a couple of the abstracts I was able to find from Medline and Google Scholar searches, and I was unable to find anything that suggests weight lifting/resistance training helps improve swimming performance.
I recently had an opportunity to interview two great masters swimmers who are also famous exercise physiology researchers: Dr. David Costill and Dr. Joel Stager. To my surprise, both of them suggested that the benefits of weight training are dubious for swimming speed. (I didn't ask them about other possibilities, like injury prevention and countering sarcopenia of aging.)
In any event, I invite you all to check it out and to post any links to the research literature you know of in the comments section, and I will then add these in future blogs on this topic.
Final note: I am interested in this topic because I think I am much like many within our ranks: mightily impressed by Leslie The Fortress, Chris Stevenson, Jazz Hands, and others who lift extensively and often as part of their training. I've recently made tentative inroads to trying this myself. But I do want to know if it's likely to help my swimming or just delay frailty in old age (not a bad reason to do it, of course, but not the same motivation as, say, dropping a half second in the 50.)
It seems to me weight training could do lots of things not specifically measured by exercise physiologists, such as reshape the vessel or increase one's pain/quitting threshold. Perhaps it helps swimmers achieve a better time faster than they would have otherwise (assuming they are already on such a trajectory).
I agree, there are some fascinating real-time experiments we are all privileged to read about in the daily blogs.
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I would like to be the Ande-est Fort Stevenson in the USA!
And as I'm writing this... WE ARE HAVING A HUGE EARTHQUAKE HERE IN SO-CAL!
Check the news!
I am the FIRST to report it!
:)
I would like to be the Ande-est Fort Stevenson in the USA!
And as I'm writing this... WE ARE HAVING A HUGE EARTHQUAKE HERE IN SO-CAL!
Check the news!
I am the FIRST to report it!
:)
Meh, 5.0 in Inglewood, not even worth ducking under anything.
State Games in Charlotte.
I went to the Greenville one last year and am hoping to swim in a pool that's a bit deeper. 3.5 to 4 feet is rather shallow for me.
It's shallow for anyone that muscular. You need some fat to float you off the bottom.
Are you going to LCM Nats at Indy?
You know, of course, that I am pretty sure you are really a 65 year old man posing as a Cremepuff for lascivious purposes, and will continue to suspect this until there is an actual siting in the flesh.
I would like to take your word for it, but just as my blog on this topic is dedicated to a scientific-based examination of weight training and its effect on swim performance, so must I remain neutral on claims of reduced body fat percentage in CremePuffs until I am able to verify same independently and scientifically.
When can I and my calipers arrange for an examination?
:rofl:
I understand. I must admit I was in disbelief myself. I looked for some colonies zones LCM meets in your area but could not find any. I'm planning on heading out Geek's way for a Charlotte meet in June. Perhaps he can take over the caliper duties. . . :)
Which meet? LC in Greenville or State Games of NC in Charlotte?
State Games in Charlotte.
I went to the Greenville one last year and am hoping to swim in a pool that's a bit deeper. 3.5 to 4 feet is rather shallow for me.
