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Body fat!

  • 10-02-2010 10:25am
    #1
    swimgal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 80 ✭✭


    Hey!

    Just wondering if any of ye had the same problem.

    So recently both myself and my coach have noticed I've got slower at swimming. I'm a girl and I swim with a guy twice a week doing timed laps. Usually I'm just a few seconds behind him but in the last few weeks I've noticed I'm much further back and my times are slower.

    So I've been trying to figure out myself what is the problem. The only thing I can think of is that I have lost about a half a stone in the last few months (from swimming!). I weigh just under 9 stone so I still have plenty of fat!

    Do you find though that generally people with a bit extra body fat tend to swim faster? I feel my stroke is a lot weaker now and I don't have as much energy.


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  • #2
    cruizer101
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,205 ✭✭✭cruizer101


    I'm not really too sure tbh, but fat is lighter than water and so having more fat would have made you more bouyant and so float higher up in the water, the higher up the less drag.

    Depending how much you lost this could be a reason, but I'm no expert just throwing out an idea.


  • #3
    Mainah
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36 ✭Mainah


    This happened to a swimming friend of mine - she lost a bunch of weight and started swimming slower. It could be that your body position in the water has changed now and you might need to compensate. Can you get a video analysis done any time soon?

    One of my problems is suit-specific as I'm kind of large in the chest area. Back in the day when I used to go on training trips to warm places, we'd sometimes wear training bikinis. When I wore one, I couldn't keep up with people that I normally would be in front of. I thought I was just tired, but eventually I copped on that I was a lot less "aerodynamic" in the training bikini than in a normal suit... :rolleyes: Now all my suits have to be super super tight or I can't keep pace :eek:


  • #4
    Mellor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,064 ✭✭✭✭Mellor


    cruizer101 wrote: »
    I'm not really too sure tbh, but fat is lighter than water and so having more fat would have made you more bouyant and so float higher up in the water, the higher up the less drag.

    Depending how much you lost this could be a reason, but I'm no expert just throwing out an idea.

    But unlike buoancy from a float, you'd also have extra weight to carry through the water.

    It like that the swimming position has changed, and your stroke is yet to adapt


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