The differences show that based on swimmers’ strengths and weaknesses, some perform better in one pool versus another. There’s no answer to which format is better. Distance swimmers tend to experience a smaller increase from their short course and long course times, since their increased endurance over a long period of time helps them to regulate their stroke rate and power even throughout the 50-meter laps. In comparison with others, they experience a much higher percent decrease from their long course to short course times. Swimmers with more peak leg power have much stronger turns, and are able to obtain a larger speed boost when they push off the wall, giving them a “leg up” in short course pools. Swimmers not only have to make it through the race, but also have to resist the increased stroke degradation through the longer laps.Ĭertain elements of your swimming can give you advantages in each pool. Because of this, endurance is much more of a challenge in bigger pools. In a longer pool, you experience much more stroke degradation through the second half of the lap than in a short course pool, leading to a slower overall stroke rate in a long course race. As you may have noticed, swimming longer distances continuously makes it harder to maintain the same high stroke rate. However, stroke rate ties back to muscle fatigue. The fastest sprinters don’t necessarily have more power per stroke than everybody else, but they do have an impressively high stroke frequency. Attaining a high stroke rate will drastically improve your speed. One of the most important details of racing is stroke rate, especially during a sprint. In the end, the extra underwaters in short course races help us to maintain a higher energy output throughout. However, when you’re gliding, your muscles catch a break and are able to clear out some of the hydrogen, reducing the muscle fatigue before the next lap starts. This results in metabolic acidosis and causes the all-too-familiar burning sensation and muscle fatigue. Because your muscles are essentially working in “overdrive,” the hydrogen accumulates quickly and lowers the pH in the cells. During high intensity exercise, your muscle cells are rapidly breaking down molecules used to release energy, and in the process, release a high volume of hydrogen ions into the cell. The extra underwater time doesn’t just give you a boost, though it serves as “recovery time.” While your lungs may beg to differ, this period of your race is much more relaxed, and you expend less energy. Swimming under the surface avoids this problem, and more energy is used to push you forward. Moving at the surface of the water is slower. Underwaters have a major effect on speed. On the other hand, a long course pool only allows you to stay underwater for up to 30% of the race.
A short course race has twice as much turning and gliding, allowing you to spend up to 60% of the race underwater. So what makes long course so different? Turns and GlidingĪn obvious difference between a short and long course pool is the number of turns. Despite this, all swimmers know that swimming in a short course pool feels considerably faster and less tiring. The distance of every event is still the same. *Please note, applications that have outstanding conditions by the deadline outlined in your offer letter will have the option to defer to the next available intake to allow you time to meet your outstanding offer conditions.The only tangible difference between short and long course is the pool length. To make sure that your own payments are secure, you should only make payments to us through one of the methods on our official payment page.
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