Worldwide Swimming Corridor of Fame inductee Tim Shead smashed the world report within the 50m breaststroke by an astounding 1.2 seconds yesterday within the South African Masters Swim Championships in Cape City South African.
Swimming within the 70 + age group, the World Document had been held by the USA’s Robert Wright in a time of 36.21 seconds earlier than Tim blasted 35.01 yesterday, an exceptional 1.2 second drop in a brief 50 race.
Tim was requested how he felt about breaking the report, and likewise concerning the wonderful quantity he dropped it by. Tim mentioned he hoped to interrupt it, felt he may and may primarily based on his historical past, however nonetheless was nonetheless shocked he did and much more shocked by the quantity. He mentioned a mix of Covid, lack of coaching and his age had him questioning how properly he would swim.
I had seen that at about age 60 and particularly 65 and above, the instances of swimmers dropped off fairly considerably. This might solely be because of a pure lack of muscle and different modifications because of ageing. And naturally Covid had restricted any potential to coach correctly or entry vital weight coaching. A double whammy to all swimmers and particularly individuals of my age.
So I knew I needed to double down on ensuring I used to be getting correct diet to reduce the unfavorable, well being robbing results of ageing.
P2Life is well-known in Masters swimming the place athletes with an extended historical past of taking P2Life dominate the USA and World Information having set properly over 825 world data
Extra lately P2Life is turning into rather more well-known in age group, collegiate and Olympic swimmers with standout younger up and coming swimmers equivalent to Olympic Matt Sates, Caspar Corbeau, Patrick Callan and Katie Grimes have come out stating they too have been on P2Life for a number of years.
See an interview with SwimSwam CEO and Tim Shead right here:
