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Wahoojan@ao*.co* wrote: > > how long dose it take you to swim 400 yards in a pool ? 5 minutes and 20 seconds is easy cruise speed, five minutes if I am pushing it, but I swim every day , Jan. This is not a fair comparison. It is like asking how many lobsters you can catch in an hour - a lot more than me. You shouuld be able to do 400 yards in 4 times the time it takes you to do 100 yards, and that is a better measure of being in swimming shape. That is a lot harder than it sounds, but swimming is a pace sport. Busting your ass blows lactate and kills your aerobic workout. You do that towards the end of a workout after going slow and then going your cruise speed. Swimming works for everyone, since the effort each of us have to use to do it is giving us the same benefit, no matter how fast we go. I am in a lot better shape than guys who can blow me out of the water, but then I am pushing a lot of meat and the wrong body shape, and I sink like a stone. I can howl underwater, but there the playing field is level and the power takes over. The 400 DM swim is not a good test. If you are a swimmer, it should be more like 4,000, and if you are not it might as well be 400 miles.You certainly can not get in shape swimming that short of a distance, you need to put a certain amount of time into each swim workout to do that. If I were using a measure of fitness for divers, I would get them to do something to raise their heartrate and hold it at 90% of capacity for bit, and then see how many beats per minute is drops in 60 seconds after they stop. Mine drops from 40 to 60 beats per minute in one minute. Anything less than a 20 beat drop is trouble in my opinoin, and you really need to see 40 beats drop. If it is real hot, you will not get the full drop , but still shouild see quite a huge drop if you are in shape. Also, the heartrate charts are baloney - I can routinely run over 200 bpm on a bike, and am 48, and consider 160 to be a cruise rate. -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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