What Makes Michael Phelps So Good?

What sets Michael Phelps above even those genetic geniuses is a unique endowment; he was born with a body that makes him a nearly perfect swimming machine. Not only is he 6 feet 4 inches with 195 lbs perfectly distributed on a classic swimmer’s build – broad shoulders and slim hips. His unusually long torso and short legs are perfect for impeccable balance and minimal resistance, while his wingspan of 6 feet 7 inches gives him unusually long levers for holding onto the water as he strokes.

And then there are his size 14 feet and hyperflexibility that gives him a range of motion that provides tremendous propulsive efficiency. Finally, he has demonstrated, virtually from his first laps at age 7, a preternatural relationship with the water. While “feel for the water” – a natural instinct for finding just the right positions in which to slink through the water and work with it effectively – cannot be measured, Phelps just has it. His one seeming deficit is in physical strength. He has never lifted weights and has scored as one of the weakest elite swimmers ever tested by physiologists at U.S. Swimming – which speaks volumes about the relative importance of movement economy vs. power.

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• broad shoulders, slim hips, long torso,short legs -蒙得- ♂ (0 bytes) () 09/20/2007 postreply 19:00:32

• 游泳运动员是上肢比下肢重要. -蒙得- ♂ (0 bytes) () 09/20/2007 postreply 19:02:18

• One thing Micheal Phelps is working on.. -CMP- ♂ (462 bytes) () 09/21/2007 postreply 13:43:31

• MP's upper body -CMP- ♂ (230 bytes) () 09/21/2007 postreply 13:48:18

• 鼓掌 -华伦久费- ♂ (0 bytes) () 09/20/2007 postreply 19:11:11

• 专为你找的.当时看奥运听评论计下的. -蒙得- ♂ (0 bytes) () 09/20/2007 postreply 19:16:05

• muscle quality counts. -DukeGuy- ♂ (0 bytes) () 09/20/2007 postreply 21:13:57

• 据我所知菲尔浦斯从没拿过蛙泳冠军？ -SunOfBeach- ♂ (0 bytes) () 09/20/2007 postreply 21:30:00

• U right! 蛙泳是他的弱点. -蒙得- ♂ (0 bytes) () 09/21/2007 postreply 07:11:17

• Phelps'breastroke is coming up -CMP- ♂ (142 bytes) () 09/21/2007 postreply 13:35:34

• Phelp is not a breast stroke type. only good at free/back -dukeguy- ♂ (0 bytes) () 09/21/2007 postreply 22:09:36

• 这个例子不好, 他们在讨论蛙泳 -Nobody_2006- ♂ (274 bytes) () 09/21/2007 postreply 05:06:50

• 蛙泳中，瞬间推力最大的时刻是腿蹬的时刻，但是手的推力时间长 -华伦久费- ♂ (62 bytes) () 09/21/2007 postreply 07:43:55

• 手的推力时间长并不等于手的最终推力大 -Nobody_2006- ♂ (105 bytes) () 09/21/2007 postreply 08:10:13

• 我否认过吗？铁的事实已经证明即使蛙泳也是手的推力大，不要再搅拌了 -华伦久费- ♂ (0 bytes) () 09/21/2007 postreply 08:13:13

• 铁的事实? 在哪儿啊? 您计算过? -Nobody_2006- ♂ (0 bytes) () 09/21/2007 postreply 08:14:30

• 铁的事实？真捆绑蛙式游回国了？好快啊 -说了就走- ♂ (46 bytes) () 09/21/2007 postreply 08:37:18

• 推力要靠面积起作用 -dogy- ♀ (0 bytes) () 09/22/2007 postreply 00:27:22

• 你自己可以做一个drill -CMP- ♂ (126 bytes) () 09/21/2007 postreply 15:00:02

• soccor player -mhxprs- ♂ (218 bytes) () 09/21/2007 postreply 14:30:53

• 比一下手臂和脚的滑水面积。我认为手的效率高。 -dogy- ♀ (0 bytes) () 09/22/2007 postreply 00:24:05