I was just wondering, how many of you typically enter the maximum number of events that you can? I always do. One of our new coaches wants us to try and focus more on our "stronger events" and skip the other events. I usually like to see how well I might do in a event I haven't done in awhile.
I'm surprised that Patrick and Chris have dismissed what I thought was well-known which is that people differ with regards to the proportional amount of slow-twitch and fast-twitch muscle fibers.
My apologies as I've been a bit too tongue-in-cheek here. There's absolutely a difference. However, as I have close to zero fast-twitch fibers, swimming multiple events including 50s doesn't phase me as I can never reach the level of speed that real sprinters do. Seriously. I'm the guy who tries to pace a 50! I am seriously so envious of people who truly can sprint, who can muster all of the attention to detail that it takes to knock out a great 50 or 100. I still swim those events and have fun doing them, but still prefer 200+ races as they leave a lot more room for error in strategy, technique, etc.
I'm not surprised that Patrick can do a 200 fly and then 100 back with 10 min. rest- he's used and developed his slow twitch fibers for years. It's pure physiology, plain and simple. Not . . . "not enough rest whinning" :)
Yes and note that I've never said that that 100 back will be impressive.
If you don't need rest or want to experiment or have fun at an in season meet, knock yourself out and swim the max events. But don't expect others to want to do the same or necessarily see this as some desirable goal. :-P It's not all about the meterage ...
It's not more desirable to max the events out ... but that's also an experiment to try and HAVE FUN doing.
Eh, I bet he just doesn't kick. :) He did say "languid."
The only way for me to survive a 200 fly as a Masters' swimmer is to think "Massive Negative Split!" I seriously aim to cruise about 150 of it ... but, for me, my fly only works when I'm really relaxed. I've never swum good fly (even a 100) when trying to swim fast stroke rates.
I'm surprised that Patrick and Chris have dismissed what I thought was well-known which is that people differ with regards to the proportional amount of slow-twitch and fast-twitch muscle fibers.
My apologies as I've been a bit too tongue-in-cheek here. There's absolutely a difference. However, as I have close to zero fast-twitch fibers, swimming multiple events including 50s doesn't phase me as I can never reach the level of speed that real sprinters do. Seriously. I'm the guy who tries to pace a 50! I am seriously so envious of people who truly can sprint, who can muster all of the attention to detail that it takes to knock out a great 50 or 100. I still swim those events and have fun doing them, but still prefer 200+ races as they leave a lot more room for error in strategy, technique, etc.
I'm not surprised that Patrick can do a 200 fly and then 100 back with 10 min. rest- he's used and developed his slow twitch fibers for years. It's pure physiology, plain and simple. Not . . . "not enough rest whinning" :)
Yes and note that I've never said that that 100 back will be impressive.
If you don't need rest or want to experiment or have fun at an in season meet, knock yourself out and swim the max events. But don't expect others to want to do the same or necessarily see this as some desirable goal. :-P It's not all about the meterage ...
It's not more desirable to max the events out ... but that's also an experiment to try and HAVE FUN doing.
Eh, I bet he just doesn't kick. :) He did say "languid."
The only way for me to survive a 200 fly as a Masters' swimmer is to think "Massive Negative Split!" I seriously aim to cruise about 150 of it ... but, for me, my fly only works when I'm really relaxed. I've never swum good fly (even a 100) when trying to swim fast stroke rates.
