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..
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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.
I have a feeling that popov and his coach wouldn't do anything to cause harm to his tendons. They probably did some sort of dryland movements to get the blood circulating and muscles warmed-up so that he wouldn't injury himself.
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.
I have a feeling that popov and his coach wouldn't do anything to cause harm to his tendons. They probably did some sort of dryland movements to get the blood circulating and muscles warmed-up so that he wouldn't injury himself.
