I am quite confident in swimming pools but open water swimming is a different story… what they accomplished is not easy! Congrats to the team 🎉 and big respect to the Singaporeans that have done this solo as well.
Congratulations! Your honest telling of your adventure is meaningful to me. I will be swimming in a 6 women relay this June 2024. Thank you for sharing your training and accomplishments.
The thing that makes or breaks such an attempt is typically the cold and harsh weather conditions and not so much the physical aspect of things, as such mental resilience plays a larger role. It may not have been covered in this video but the team might have begun to acclimatize to swimming in the cold way before this series was shot. Also, swimmers who attempt the crossing typically gain 5 to 10kg prior to insulate their organs from the blistering cold. I believe they are all very good swimmers no doubt and it's really amazing they succeeded to cross the channel in pretty ideal conditions.
Great respect to them! Anyway for uncle chee soon, for people having difficulty in putting on weight just drink more protein shakes, add peanut butter to things you eat, drink milk. These will help to easily create a surplus in calories without feeling too full.
Why is CNA focussing on this relay team when individual Singaporeans have swum across the Channel solo well before them? surely a solo crossing is more of an achievement? Thum Ping Tjin was the first Singaporean man (in 2005) and Li Ling Yung is the first Singaporean woman to do it (in 2022).
lol pj thum was the first singaporean to swim solo across the english channel but no focus, why, because of his political activities? instead you do a show on 4 guys who do a relay to cross the same thing, rather the one who crossed it solo, what a joke cna
