using the venn diagram , compare the recreational and competitive swimming
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was on the swim team in high school and my freshman year in college, but as a diver, not a swimmer. Divers spend most of their time waiting in line for the board, so you get to watch swim practice and feel sorry for the swimmers.
From my perspective, swim practice was divided into two parts: (1) refining technique; (2) torture.
About technique…
Go to a lap-swimming pool and observe. You don’t have to be an expert to tell the difference between a competitive swimmer and an ordinary lap swimmer. The competitive swimmer’s stroke is so much better, it is like the difference between a pro golfer’s swing and a duffer’s. The most obvious difference is they take far fewer strokes per length than the average swimmer.
About torture…
To win races, a swimmer needs speed, strength, and endurance. This can only come from hours of brutal training, mainly intervals. Running, biking, rowing, cross country skiing, speed skating, etc., are all similar in that respect, but swimming has in addition a unique form of pain and agony: hypoxia.
Each time a swimmer has to take a breath, it messes up the stroke just a little, and slows him/her down. Consequently, swimmers must train to breathe as infrequently as possible for each distance. Perhaps the most stressful part is the racing flip turn which looks so cool on TV. Ideally, you don’t breathe coming into the turn, and of course you cannot breathe under water on the “breakout” as it is called, when the swimmers explode off the wall and dolphin kick furiously under water.
To get the flavor of what swimmers go through, read some of the discussion on this swimmer’s forum:
flip turn and oxygen debt
There is such a thing as “hypoxic training.” Great fun if you like near-death experiences:
Alexandria Masters Swimming
At my age, 76, I feel entitled to breathe whenever I want. I like air.
When I was on the college team (University of Michigan), I learned from the swimmers that about all they could do after working out twice a day was eat and sleep. They were there on scholarships, so most of them were majoring in things such as Phys Ed, which didn’t require much homework.
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