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Re: Improving Swimming Efficiency w/ Heat Trials

From jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com
Newsgroups sci.physics
Subject Re: Improving Swimming Efficiency w/ Heat Trials
Date 2016-07-19 05:11 +0000
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Bret Cahill <bretcahill@aol.com> wrote:
>> > If you cannot sink much heat then you won't be burning many calories
>> > at a very high rate for very long.  The system will literally overheat
>> > internally and you'll croak.
> 
>> Runners don't seem to "literally overheat internally" and "croak"
> 
> 1.  heat the air up to 37 C w/ 100% r.h. and the runner will croak.

Apples and oranges; you said water at 35 C.

And having run in similar conditions and still being alive, I can empirically
say you are full of shit.

> 2.  air offers less resistance than water

Irrelevant to cooling.

>>  so why
>> should swimmers?
> 
> Try swimming a km in 35 C water and report back with your best time.

Which would prove nothing.


-- 
Jim Pennino

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Improving Swimming Efficiency At w/ Heat Trials Bret Cahill <bretcahill@aol.com> - 2016-07-18 10:43 -0700
  Re: Improving Swimming Efficiency At w/ Heat Trials jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2016-07-18 19:32 +0000
    Improving Swimming Efficiency w/ Heat Trials Bret Cahill <bretcahill@aol.com> - 2016-07-18 21:09 -0700
      Re: Improving Swimming Efficiency w/ Heat Trials jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2016-07-19 05:11 +0000
        Re: Improving Swimming Efficiency w/ Heat Trials Bret Cahill <bretcahill@aol.com> - 2016-07-20 22:40 -0700

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