Next time your son comes home and tells you that his classmates are telling him that it is more manly to play football or basketball than swim, point him to the below study. Seems men with higher testosterone levels prefer one-on-one competition to group competition.
www.pranjmehta.com/.../Mehtaetal2009.pdf
In my school the swimmers were saved from having to perform such demonstrations by the fact that one of the starting linemen on the football team swam butterfly. He let everyone know that swimming practice was "way tougher" than football practice. I'll take his word for it as my body type is incompatible with football...
One of the other local schools had an All-Conference Halfback who was All-State in the 50 Free. Of course, our football jocks couldn't read well enough to have noticed that in the papers!
In my school the swimmers were saved from having to perform such demonstrations by the fact that one of the starting linemen on the football team swam butterfly. He let everyone know that swimming practice was "way tougher" than football practice. I'll take his word for it as my body type is incompatible with football...
One of the other local schools had an All-Conference Halfback who was All-State in the 50 Free. Of course, our football jocks couldn't read well enough to have noticed that in the papers!
