Question for Science-minded swimmers...

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During our swimming careers we have all experienced the feeling of "being in-shape" and not quite "in-shape". My question is this; From a physiological or Kinesiological standpoint, what is happening in your body when you can so easily go from being in-shape to losing that in a matter of a week or two? I'm an old masters swimmer now but even swimming High School, Club or College whenever I would go on a vacation or get sick for a week, it took two - three weeks to get back to where I was before the vacation or sickness? What is happening in our body when we can swim a 1:07 BR and then two weeks later can't break 1:10??? Thanks in advance for your answers and opinions... :confused:
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  • Jazz Hands wasn't around in the '70s, so he hasn't heard about biorhythms like us older folks have. The biorhythm fad seems to have gone the way of earth shoes and pet rocks. :) Remember the biorhythm calculators? A college roommate had a graphing one that would print out little 4" wide colored charts of what in retrospect was probably total nonsense. The TI (Texas Instruments, not Total Immersion) programmers were probably giggling like mad when they wrote the code.
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  • Jazz Hands wasn't around in the '70s, so he hasn't heard about biorhythms like us older folks have. The biorhythm fad seems to have gone the way of earth shoes and pet rocks. :) Remember the biorhythm calculators? A college roommate had a graphing one that would print out little 4" wide colored charts of what in retrospect was probably total nonsense. The TI (Texas Instruments, not Total Immersion) programmers were probably giggling like mad when they wrote the code.
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