I swam competitively in high school, graduated 2005. I actually ran into a guy yesterday who was five years ahead of me, but an absolute stud of a swimmer at the time. Haven’t seen him in 20-25 years at this point, long time, I was just a kid.
We get to talking and I mention how I go to the Y we both swam for and I look at the time board, and how none of the old names are up there any longer; in fact, we talk about how the times on the girls board are now faster than the times the boys set back when we swam.
There have been advances in technique, and how they practice, and the types of suits they wear, but the main thing we could figure was it was access to nutritional information and the like. Back when we did it was amateur hour. Kids nowadays can get custom-tailored meal programs for their training regimen, and that’s on top of much more personalized training and everything. Every facet has been absolutely tech’d out, and kids are going much, much further (and faster). What only Olympians had access to when I was a kid is now something anyone has access to.
I swam competitively in high school, graduated 2005. I actually ran into a guy yesterday who was five years ahead of me, but an absolute stud of a swimmer at the time. Haven’t seen him in 20-25 years at this point, long time, I was just a kid.
We get to talking and I mention how I go to the Y we both swam for and I look at the time board, and how none of the old names are up there any longer; in fact, we talk about how the times on the girls board are now faster than the times the boys set back when we swam.
There have been advances in technique, and how they practice, and the types of suits they wear, but the main thing we could figure was it was access to nutritional information and the like. Back when we did it was amateur hour. Kids nowadays can get custom-tailored meal programs for their training regimen, and that’s on top of much more personalized training and everything. Every facet has been absolutely tech’d out, and kids are going much, much further (and faster). What only Olympians had access to when I was a kid is now something anyone has access to.