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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

#589769 — Improving Swimming Efficiency At w/ Heat Trials

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.

The easy way to improve efficiency passing through fluids is to have high temperature time trials, i.e., 35 C pool water, and then studying style of the winner at high temps.

This way those who are competitive at normal temperatures by relying on brute power could be retrained to go even faster.


Bret Cahill 

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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" so why
should swimmers?

> The easy way to improve efficiency passing through fluids is to have
> high temperature time trials, i.e., 35 C pool water, and then studying
> style of the winner at high temps.

As normal body temperature is 37 C, anything less than that is cooling.

> This way those who are competitive at normal temperatures by relying
> on brute power could be retrained to go even faster.

Assumes a LOT of things not in envidence.


-- 
Jim Pennino

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#589889 — Improving Swimming Efficiency w/ Heat Trials

> > 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.

2.  air offers less resistance than water

>  so why
> should swimmers?

Try swimming a km in 35 C water and report back with your best time.

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#589904 — Re: Improving Swimming Efficiency w/ Heat Trials

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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#590173 — Re: Improving Swimming Efficiency w/ Heat Trials

> > Try swimming a km in 35 C water and report back with your best time.
> 
> Which would prove nothing.

You need to quit eating so much junk food.

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