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Right -- this was my initial reaction. You can generate more thrust in a higher viscosity fluid, which will "cancel out" the increased friction, but it also ta
by aliston 16y ago
Right -- this was my initial reaction. You can generate more thrust in a higher viscosity fluid, which will "cancel out" the increased friction, but it also takes more energy to generate the increased thrust, so you'd tire out more quickly.
- bryanh 16y agoThis may sound absurd, but I wonder if this has ever been seriously tried as a training platform for competitive swimmers.
- mcav 16y agoI'd hate to practice swimming in corn syrup, if only due to the risk of inhaling mouthfuls of corn syrup, which I imagine would be more difficult to get rid of than a mouthful of seawater.
- electromagnetic 16y agoIIRC mythbusters used a medal winning swimmer and he couldn't perform. His body was attuned to swimming in water and he was messing up on his strokes (from what it looked like, he was taking longer to do a stroke in the more viscous liquids but he was going further with each stroke).