I just watched a great video entitled Swim Slow to Be Fast. I found it to be very interesting and sound advice. It is primarily meant for Tri Atheletes and distance swimmers..
To be honest, I never tried it swimming. I can tell you from experience that you can't run a sprint from the blocks without getting hurt. It is a 100% certainty that something will tear, hopefully a muscle, not a tendon. This is/was my perspective when I read your commnet regarding Popov. Perhaps in swimming you can't generate the stratospheric loads on the tendons and muscles that track sprinting can.
To be honest, I never tried it swimming. I can tell you from experience that you can't run a sprint from the blocks without getting hurt. It is a 100% certainty that something will tear, hopefully a muscle, not a tendon. This is/was my perspective when I read your commnet regarding Popov. Perhaps in swimming you can't generate the stratospheric loads on the tendons and muscles that track sprinting can.
