The times and physiques of some of our older swimmers is amazing. After seeing the decline in my own power and strength in the past 10 years, I wonder if Masters has to begin worrying about the use of performance enhancing supplements like HGH.
Many masters have the financial resources to afford something like Cenegenics at $30,000 per year to be "young" again.
I don't have any clean and simple solutions - just wondering if there are others who are wondering the same thing I am.
When Rob Butcher said that masters should keep the tech suits because masters swimmer's muscles "need" the compression, does that open the door to allowing anything else that we "need?"
Paul Windrath
Some people have the luxury of worrying about what other competitors are doing now, but I have not gotten that far. I am still worried about what my competitors did as age groupers.
Great line.
When I was in college, I had no knowledge of "performance enhancers". Even if I had the knowledge, I don't think I would have had the access, having attended a small Division III college that (outside of lacrosse) wasn't perticularly focused on athletics. I did however notice several of my very successful Division I competitors who gained incredible physiques once they'd gotten to campus. I'm not sure there was a level playing field in those days.
Maybe I'm just overly cynical since the revelations of "the Clear", HGH, Epo, CERA, and now even the spectre of mechanical doping by cyclists...I still believe Lance Armstrong is clean, though.
note: In the interests of full disclosure, I really believed Marion Jones when she disavowed any steroid use. Now I'm just another jaded has-been.
Some people have the luxury of worrying about what other competitors are doing now, but I have not gotten that far. I am still worried about what my competitors did as age groupers.
Great line.
When I was in college, I had no knowledge of "performance enhancers". Even if I had the knowledge, I don't think I would have had the access, having attended a small Division III college that (outside of lacrosse) wasn't perticularly focused on athletics. I did however notice several of my very successful Division I competitors who gained incredible physiques once they'd gotten to campus. I'm not sure there was a level playing field in those days.
Maybe I'm just overly cynical since the revelations of "the Clear", HGH, Epo, CERA, and now even the spectre of mechanical doping by cyclists...I still believe Lance Armstrong is clean, though.
note: In the interests of full disclosure, I really believed Marion Jones when she disavowed any steroid use. Now I'm just another jaded has-been.
