I did a practice shave of my legs last night, to get used to it and also figure out how long it takes me for planning purposes.
Today in practice, I was faster than usual. The most obvious was in my 200 free warm-up. I dps the first 100 and then gradually speed up to about 75%. Usually I am around 3 minutes. Monday, I went 2:51. Today, I was 2:36 with the usual effort level.
My 200 *** warm-up was about 10 seconds faster than usual.
Can shaving really improve things that much? Is some of this because I am tapering?
Also, for those guys who shave your heads, do you also wear a cap? If not, is the bald head better than a cap?
I will try to remember to look at the papers more carefully when I have some time. But I have always questioned how applicable the measurements of passive pull experiments, if that's what they were, are to the actual act of swimming.
Excellent point.Fluid dynamics of irregularly shaped ,moving ,flexible objects are incredibly complex and way beyond my understanding.
My point is that shaving clearly has some drag reduction effect.Measuring how much effect the techsuits had on drag reduction was also very difficult,but clearly the result was that there was some significant effect.I don't believe anyone is suggesting the drag suits worked by decreasing sensation,nor by increasing sensation.
If shaving decreases drag,which it does,and techsuits decease drag,which they do,and both increase speed,which they do ,then I deduce that the deceased drag from shaving increases speed.
I will try to remember to look at the papers more carefully when I have some time. But I have always questioned how applicable the measurements of passive pull experiments, if that's what they were, are to the actual act of swimming.
Excellent point.Fluid dynamics of irregularly shaped ,moving ,flexible objects are incredibly complex and way beyond my understanding.
My point is that shaving clearly has some drag reduction effect.Measuring how much effect the techsuits had on drag reduction was also very difficult,but clearly the result was that there was some significant effect.I don't believe anyone is suggesting the drag suits worked by decreasing sensation,nor by increasing sensation.
If shaving decreases drag,which it does,and techsuits decease drag,which they do,and both increase speed,which they do ,then I deduce that the deceased drag from shaving increases speed.
