{"id":510,"date":"2007-10-05T12:09:43","date_gmt":"2007-10-05T16:09:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adventureimaging.ca\/BEASTblog\/?p=510"},"modified":"2009-10-04T12:10:27","modified_gmt":"2009-10-04T16:10:27","slug":"swim-faster-faster-tips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/adventureimaging.ca\/BEASTblog\/?p=510","title":{"rendered":"Swim Faster Faster Tips"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently downloaded the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fina.org\/masters\/championships_results\/index.php\" target=\"_blank\">FINA results<\/a> from the previous World Masters Swimming Championships, held at Stanford CA in 2006. I find it mind boggling how fast the men are in the 45-49 age group, the swimmers with whom I&#8217;ll have to compete against for the first time in 2008. For example (all LCM times):  53 swam sub-28 second 50m FS (fastest was 24.29), 35 swam sub-1 minute 100m FS (fastest was 54.41), one Brazilian swam the 200m FS  under 2 minutes &#8230; and on it goes.<\/p>\n<p>I couldn&#8217;t help but wonder &#8230; &#8220;Who the heck are these guys???&#8221;. In doing a bit of Google searching, I am across Ande Rasmussen and his <a href=\"http:\/\/forums.usms.org\/showthread.php?t=4229\" target=\"_blank\">Swim Faster Faster Tips<\/a>. The tips are presented in a few different forms &#8230; the previous link is to a very long thread on the US Masters web site where the tips are interspersed with commentary. A listing of just the tips is found at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.swimfasterfaster.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.swimfasterfaster.com<\/a> (hosted on Yahoo Sports).<\/p>\n<p>Be prepared for a lot of reading &#8230; but the tips are very good. Ande is in the &#8216;young&#8217; 40&#8217;s group &#8230; one of his tips is about setting goals &#8230; I believe his goal for last year was breaking 2:00 minutes in the 200 IM, which he did.<\/p>\n<p>To see what &#8220;these guys&#8221; train like, have a look at <a href=\"http:\/\/forums.usms.org\/showthread.php?t=4298&amp;page=86\" target=\"_blank\">Ande&#8217;s daily workout postings<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently downloaded the FINA results from the previous World Masters Swimming Championships, held at Stanford CA in 2006. I find it mind boggling how fast the men are in the 45-49 age group, the swimmers with whom I&#8217;ll have &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/adventureimaging.ca\/BEASTblog\/?p=510\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/adventureimaging.ca\/BEASTblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/adventureimaging.ca\/BEASTblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/adventureimaging.ca\/BEASTblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adventureimaging.ca\/BEASTblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adventureimaging.ca\/BEASTblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=510"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/adventureimaging.ca\/BEASTblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":511,"href":"http:\/\/adventureimaging.ca\/BEASTblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510\/revisions\/511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/adventureimaging.ca\/BEASTblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adventureimaging.ca\/BEASTblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adventureimaging.ca\/BEASTblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}