So I got the swimming bug again after the World Championships so I decided yesterday to do a swim meet without having swam at all in 12 years. It was more fun than I expected and I swam about as fast as I was when I stopped swimming (at age 17).
What changed since then? (1) I have no cardio (i.e. died on 35-40m of the 50m LCMs I swam) and (2) 40 extra pounds of muscle with not a lot of extra fat.
I have always been of the view that strength/weight training is vastly underutilized in sports in general and am going to put it to the test in swimming.
My training will consist of only technique training, sprints, kick and very very little yardage (like ~1200 yards a WEEK).
I figure that will be enough to get my cardio to where I can sprint a 50 without dying and I figure all you need for a sprint is to be able to go all out for the whole race, with the remaining factors being power and technique which don't require much yardage I don't think.
Anyone ever try it?
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So what if his motivation is some variation of laziness? Trying to find an easy way to improve swimming still seems to me like a fun thing to do. It doesn't hurt anyone. It will almost certainly improve his swimming compared with not swimming at all.
If he tries his program and it doesn't work (and he answers "yes" to one or more of your questions), then he has some hard decisions to make.
Until then, what does it matter if his motivations are impure?
Micky, excellent points, each and every one!
I was being churlish, of that there is no doubt.
Mr. Gaash, I apologize if my penchant for purist preachiness peeved you, or anyone else, for that matter.
To each his own is usually my operative philosophy. For some reason, this experiment tingled a lobe of my brain wherein resides the most dimly remembered collegiate notions of Sartre's mauvais foi, what with its tendrils into the lands of self-deception and ressentiment.
My tingled lobe's kneejerk reaction: disabuse Mr. Gaash of his delusions (as I perceived them) and help him escape this exercise in bad faith (again, as I perceived it).
But when it comes to mauvais foi, those like me prone to judging it in others are no doubt riddled with it ourselves.
Points not only taken, Mr. Young--points taken to heart!
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So what if his motivation is some variation of laziness? Trying to find an easy way to improve swimming still seems to me like a fun thing to do. It doesn't hurt anyone. It will almost certainly improve his swimming compared with not swimming at all.
If he tries his program and it doesn't work (and he answers "yes" to one or more of your questions), then he has some hard decisions to make.
Until then, what does it matter if his motivations are impure?
Micky, excellent points, each and every one!
I was being churlish, of that there is no doubt.
Mr. Gaash, I apologize if my penchant for purist preachiness peeved you, or anyone else, for that matter.
To each his own is usually my operative philosophy. For some reason, this experiment tingled a lobe of my brain wherein resides the most dimly remembered collegiate notions of Sartre's mauvais foi, what with its tendrils into the lands of self-deception and ressentiment.
My tingled lobe's kneejerk reaction: disabuse Mr. Gaash of his delusions (as I perceived them) and help him escape this exercise in bad faith (again, as I perceived it).
But when it comes to mauvais foi, those like me prone to judging it in others are no doubt riddled with it ourselves.
Points not only taken, Mr. Young--points taken to heart!
