All professional swimmers seem to have such strong looking torso?

[GlamGuru]

Is it because swimming actually expand your ribcage and shoulders and upper body? Or is it because at the top end of this sport, you only see this type of body because it's requirement to reach the top level?

Even so, some lifeguard and low end swimmers I see also got huge torso and upper body. And yes, even women lifeguard and swim instructors.

 

[Deleted member 45794]

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Is it because swimming actually expand your ribcage and shoulders and upper body? Or is it because at the top end of this sport, you only see this type of body because it's requirement to reach the top level?

Even so, some lifeguard and low end swimmers I see also got huge torso and upper body.

If you workout and have good body comp in general

 

[Gonthar]

Lol, it's because of experimental Chinese steroids...

 

[Deleted member 78987]

swimming and gym is key for aesthetic physique

 

[Achilles]

Its good exercise + they are roided out the ass

 

[Deleted member 78987]

Its good exercise + they are roided out the ass

low end swimmers are not roided and a lot of them have nice ass physiques and wide ass shoulders

 

[SubhumanForever]

That's called selection bias

 

[GlamGuru]

some random swim instructor in my area that I just looked up, look at her fucking shoulders. the fuck?

That's called selection bias

 

[6PSLcel]

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Is it because swimming actually expand your ribcage and shoulders and upper body? Or is it because at the top end of this sport, you only see this type of body because it's requirement to reach the top level?

Even so, some lifeguard and low end swimmers I see also got huge torso and upper body. And yes, even women lifeguard and swim instructors.
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Selection bias

 

[Reckless Turtle]

That's called selection bias

Selection bias

No, because their robust torsos accurately represent the population of elite swimmers.

 

[SubhumanForever]

because their robust torsos accurately represent the population of elite swimmers.

Yes this is what selection bias means, my friend.

 

[Deleted member 80684]

both tbh

 

[6PSLcel]

Y

No, because their robust torsos accurately represent the population of elite swimmers.

eah… that’s the whole point

 

[Reckless Turtle]

Yes this is what selection bias means, my friend.

No. Selection bias is incorrectly using a skewed sample to make inferences about a population. In this case, the population is already skewed because OP is fixating on elite swimmers. Had OP used elite swimmers to make inferences about swimmers, in general, then that would be selection bias.

 

[SubhumanForever]

No. Selection bias is incorrectly using a skewed sample to make inferences about a population. In this case, the population is already skewed because OP is fixating on elite swimmers.

Do you understand that not all elite swimmers have "strong looking torso"? Yes or no.

 

[Reckless Turtle]

Do you understand that not all elite swimmers have "strong looking torso"? Yes or no.

The vast majority do, thus, the average elite swimmer has a much more robust torso than the average person.

 

[SubhumanForever]

The vast majority do

Source?

 

[osamason]

Yes this is what selection bias means, my friend.

that is not selection bias you fucking retard go read a fucking book

 

[Trilogy]

Or is it because at the top end of this sport, you only see this type of body because it's requirement to reach the top level?

Probably this. Same reason why the NBA is filled with 6'5+ tallfags

 

[SubhumanForever]

that is not selection bias you fucking retard go read a fucking book

>No argument
Done

 

[Reckless Turtle]

Source?

Results revealed that compared with recreational swimmers, elite swimmers had higher maximum muscle strength of the shoulder flexor, extensor, abductor, and adductor muscles (all P < .001). The time to reach maximum muscle strength of all shoulder muscles showed no significant difference between the 2 groups (P > .05). The lean mass values in the left arm (P = .037), right arm (P < .001), and whole body (P = .014) were higher in elite swimmers than recreational swimmers.

Elite swimmers had greater shoulder maximum muscle strength compared with recreational swimmers though the time taken to reach maximum muscle strength was similar between the 2 groups. Elite swimmers also showed a higher lean mass in both arms and their entire body when compared with recreational swimmers. The results may be useful for recreational swimmers who intend to advance to professional level, and for talent identification and early development of elite swimmers.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6392697/

Swimmers were consistently found to be taller, heavier and broader in their shoulders than ordinary same-age youths. A considerable decrease in skinfold thickness among boys, but not girls, was observed after 6 months of arduous swimming practice, due probably to sexual dimorphism in the response to workload or caused by initial differnces in skinfold thickness. Even at the moderate level of exercise and the young age of swimmers, speed, as measured by 100 m free-style times, was found to be positively correlated with shoulder width, chest circumference, hand and foot size and fat-free weight.

Anthropometric survey of young swimmers on JSTOR

H. S. Helmuth, Anthropometric survey of young swimmers, Anthropologischer Anzeiger, Jahrg. 38, H. 1 (Mai 1980), pp. 17-34

www.jstor.org

 

[Never Get Up]

Wolffs Law

The dense water pressure makes the bones wider and thicker when swimming for long periods of time.

 

[Deleted member 77247]

B-road shoulders too

 

[GlamGuru]

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6392697/

Anthropometric survey of young swimmers on JSTOR

H. S. Helmuth, Anthropometric survey of young swimmers, Anthropologischer Anzeiger, Jahrg. 38, H. 1 (Mai 1980), pp. 17-34

www.jstor.org

it doesnt say if it's because of swimming, it's just an observation.

 

[Reckless Turtle]

it doesnt say if it's because of swimming, it's just an observation.

You already explained it here:

Or is it because at the top end of this sport, you only see this type of body because it's requirement to reach the top level?

 

[GlamGuru]

You already explained it here:

no but still, all high level swimmers have a certain body composition. It's like odd and strange, like the ribcage is disproportionally larger than the rest of the body. Makes me regret not taking swimming seriously when I was younger.

 

[Reckless Turtle]

no but still, all high level swimmers have a certain body composition. It's like odd and strange, like the ribcage is disporportionally larger than the rest of the body. Makes me regret not taking swimming seriously when I was younger.
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They need leverage for their long arms to push as much water as possible to swim quickly.