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Originally posted by jimholio
you see that what is cool!
Swimming would have never come to my mind but having spent hours upon hours in the trainings tanks for non sport reasons I can see that the conditioning would be intense
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Let's see a training schedule for good swimmers.
2 hours in the AM, 3 hours of water in the PM. Additionally 1.5 hours weights/other dryland every day. 6 days a week. During training camps, swimmers do unreal amounts of mileage in short periods of time. My personal max was once 125km in one week of practice.
Worst thing is: you don't have an off season. If you get out of the water for 4 weeks over the summer, it takes you 2-3 months to get back into shape.
You get sick for a week? The season is over with. Swimmers have such tremendous ups and downs with their shape, it's unreal.
Ever swam yourself? It's a full body workout, you drag your own body thru the water, yes, it supports you to some extent, but also creates a lot of drag.
Having done it for 17 years of my life, I say that swimming is the roughest sport to practice for, it sure is pretty safe to do, although some athletes fuck their joints pretty bad, especially breast strokers.
And we have to do full body shaving, which sucks ass and is gay.