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RE: stop
By Schrag4 on 5/28/2010 12:18:34 PM , Rating: 2
...and swimming is easier to re-learn...

People can forget how to swim? This is an honest question. I can't bring myself to believe it. Does anyone know someone (yourself included) who has ever admitted to swimming a lot as a kid but not knowing how to do it now?

RE: stop
By HostileEffect on 5/28/2010 8:41:01 PM , Rating: 2
The knowledge is still there, you don't forget it. What I mean is that after about ten or more years of being out of competition swimming, as well as maybe bobbing in a pool once a year, it takes a few days to relearn the coordination, not the strokes.

If you built up your lung endurance with running, the CR system is already fit and the adaptation to swimming endurance will be a lot easier and faster. Adapting to a different method of working the same systems is a lot easier than building the endurance from scratch. This is my experience.

Its like training with deadlifts but trying RDLs. you get to start at a higher weight and progress faster because you are already strong.

