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?
To bring back a dormant thread, but interesting topic
I saw a paper (I think cited in these forums, tho I can't find it now) where they did a study of the effect. Shaving actually DECREASED nerve stimulation (like a suit does) and this had some physiological effect that I can't quite remember, decreased lactate levels or something.I am curious if whether the physiological gain in performance is a temporary thing, as a decreasing response to the state of being freshly shaven, or if it remains active so long as you are shaved
To bring back a dormant thread, but interesting topic
I saw a paper (I think cited in these forums, tho I can't find it now) where they did a study of the effect. Shaving actually DECREASED nerve stimulation (like a suit does) and this had some physiological effect that I can't quite remember, decreased lactate levels or something.I am curious if whether the physiological gain in performance is a temporary thing, as a decreasing response to the state of being freshly shaven, or if it remains active so long as you are shaved
