I love swimming, but no mater the technique you always end up drinking some water after a couple kilometers, I cant imagine getting into that poop water
No it was great, adding obstacles like this is the spirit of the olympic It's the new "the ground is lava" it's called "the water is shit" And it will impact the performances, real mens will drink and go full speed while beta males will try to avoid E-coli and french digested food
What would be funny in a comedic sense is if there was a low limit. Once that level would be too low, someone must speak some words I'd never imagine anyone say in that order, "There is too little shit in the water, add more shit to the water".
Why would cities let people swim in rivers and lakes where they have specifically posted signs warning "No Swimming" due to contamination? And they can't even wear any kind of protection? That's completely reckless and asinine on everyone's part.
It's just outrage bait. People absolutely love feeling righteously angered. None of the reported illnesses were linked to the swim, that's why the narrator sneakily says the Belgian fell ill "after" instead of "due to". The water was tested and it was safe, cleaner even than the Tokyo Harbor venue.
@CjqNslXUcM According to the World Triathlon and World Aquatics, the testing used defines "good" quality water as having less than 1000 CFUs per 100 mL. Not to mention that any sort of runoff from the streets all collect in the river. I'd rather not swim in shit water in a terrible city...
Quite a risky adventure, I agree. Maybe some folks want to say to their grandchildren, "Yes...I was a wild and crazy person when I was young! I actually dared to swim in the Seine!" Of course, if these folks have grandchildren, the Seine might be cleaned up by then...and the grandchildren might say, "So, what? Big deal! I swam in the Seine yesterday!"🤣 We can hope Paris will double or treble their efforts to clean up the Seine for the NEXT Paris Olympics. China's trying to clean up their air quality in Beijing, so maybe something good will come from the sacrifices these athletes make.
THANK YOU for pointing out the BMI thing. My wife is a long-distance swimmer, and has pointed out that such people are rarely thin, but are obviously healthy. My wife isn't thin, but swam 6 hours straight in April, training for swimming the English Channel. She also got stung by a ton of jellyfish. It's not accurate to say that there is no correlation between being overweight and being unhealthy (how many 300 pound 85 year olds have you seen?), because there definitely are limits, but it's also not accurate to say that a BMI of X is necessarily bad.
BMI shouldn’t be disregarded nor solely basing our health evaluation on it . But my issue is with the way it was phrased which for most viewers who take things on face value will be dangerous misinformation to have . It should’ve been phrased in a better way to remove sensationalism
Fat distribution probably plays a big role. With more fat in legs, the center of buoyancy is probably way closer to the center of mass for an average woman than it is for an average man. That allows for a better posture in the water, which in turn improves efficiency.
That body position does play a big role with the distance women and the higher body fat also offers the muscles protection and insulation keeping them in an ideal operating temperature Although ultra distance swimming Males also carry more body fat than other elite male swimmers Its a natural adjustment that is made to keep the muscle warm Women will always have an advantage with ultra distance swimming simply because of those two factors . (ATS swimmng coach 28 years)
The seine-swim would only make sense if you think Olympics as a penalty where convicts are forced to do various sports for the amusement of the rest of the world.
I can't believe they had them swimming in that river. Most rivers close to major cities are full of contaminants. This is mainly because of the large creeks that flow into the rivers. Most sewage treatment plants are positioned along major creeks and they dump their partially contaminated water that has been treated, into the creeks. And since all major creeks flow into rivers, the closer you are to major cities and towns the dirtier the river.
The French have a dream that normal people can go swimming there again in a few years. So it was mostly symbolic that the olympic athletes had to go swimming there. Which is crazy, because they knew that the sewage system with overflowing if it rains, will contaminate the water. They have changed the sewage system at some spots, but not everywhere. It would cost enormous amounts of money to change it everywhere and make the water clean again. In some other european cities they succeeded in improving the water quality. Usually it is still not allowed to swim there because it is still dangerous
Body fat, including breasts whom are positioned in the right spot to push upp your arm's and head, make you buoyant and slow twitch muscle fibers help.
I was thinking the same thing. Every time I go swimming or sit in a friends hot tub, these useless fat bags start floating. I'm also a heavy person and an excellent swimmer. I'd honestly love to give it a go lol. Probably not in open ocean water since I'm not an experienced long distance swimmer, but I'd love to try a "small" lake. I'm from ohio so when I think lake, I think Lake Erie. Not one that big, haha. I float.
You know it's always been intriguing to me that woman are so good at long distancing swimming. It's so cool that women outperform men physically on one of the hardest tasks like long distance.
The heart problem with athletes is very real. A family friend died during a game due to spontanous cardiac arrest. He was super fit, ate healthy, was a good weight and still pretty young. He trained a lot, but it wasn't anything crazy. He was a family father and not a professional athlete.
If this was in the category of sudden adult death syndrome, which it very much sounds like, then state of fitness is almost irrelevant. The usual issue is an electrical issue with the heart that causes it to break out of its normal rhythm and basically stop pumping blood at random. Usually it starts itself again and nobody notices, but if it's in this state too long, the person dies, leaving a body that looks perfectly healthy in the post mortem examination because there is no mechanical fault to see. A friend of mine had this and the only symptom was that he fainted briefly for no reason a couple of times. He went to the doctor and wore a heart monitor for 3 days, which recorded multiple times where his heart stopped and restarted itself without him noticing. As soon as the doctor saw the results, he was moved straight to the cardiac unit of the hospital for 24/7 monitoring until a pacemaker was fitted. That was over 10 years back and that pacemaker has probably saved his life multiple times since then. This exact issue is what the conspiracy theorists like the one earlier in this thread who tried and failed in the attempt to imply that the Covid vaccine was the cause of the issue, have been working hard to label as Covid vaccine deaths.
When I attempted the Bass Strait (mainland Australia-Tasmania) I gave up about 9 hours in. I didn't even get half way. I was swimming Tammy Van Wisse's route, she did 90 something kilometres in 17 hours. Diabolical pace. I managed to do 38km but only 32 towards Tasmania. When the boat told me that, I packed it in. There was genuinely no shot. A brief caveat, I am incredibly genetically predisposed to be a swimmer. I'm 6'6, I have a 6'8 wingspan, I've swum all my life, regularly go 20+ km in still water for fun at the swimming pool I work at, but I was not blessed with buoyancy and a lack of fat gets freezing quick. I still do bay swims frequently, the Victor harbour triathalon is one of my favourite things to do, but I don't think I could do the Bass Strait if I trained for three years straight. Incredible feet of humanity. Van Wisse is a local legend.
yup. Its an open sewer of some 20 million people. All major rivers in Europe are such. I live on the estuary of one of those and would swim in that, but only if i have to. (sea arm of schelde, which is mixed with sea water)
I’ve done open swims up to 2 kms I can attest - rips forcing you off course, shark sightings, abrasions from the salt, jelly stings, cold water, elbows and kicks to the head - great times and a sense of achievement
Olympians swimming in the Seine is a terrible and dangerous idea. I can only imagine that it was adopted as a vainglorious and self-aggrandizing way to demonstrate the glory of Paris and save money. Whoever thought it was a good idea should be removed from office or position of power.
the right ventricle does not pump blood back into the body. The right ventricle pumps deoxygenated blood returning from the body through to the lungs. The blood returns from the lung through the four pulmonary veins (the only veins in the body carrying oxygenated blood) to the left atrium. The blood then enters the LEFT ventricle and from there goes round the body.
Such a shame that people cannot be bothered to scroll down. I got to your comment and thought "Excellent", but checked and a few other people pointed out the misleading part of the physiology at that section of the video. Yours is the most elegant explanation. I upvoted a few others that said the same, but theirs were posted after you had commented. Then I gave up looking for more. Thanks for your intervention. I hope that more people read it instead of misunderstanding how the cardio-pulmonary system works (or adding to the number of corrections on the same point...).
They really swim in that filthy river, that's should be illegal. Who had this stupid idea to swim in such a sewer. Shame on you Paris every swimmer should be compensated by Olympic fed.
Although that was only 800m, but the point still stands that open water is dangerous. Crossfit Games had been warned time and time again NOT to do open water swimming without a lifeguard boating alongside each athlete but they refused each time. And now they’re glorifying him as if they cared. They’re just trying to avoid a lawsuit. Such a shame, I hope his family finds peace.
Also, not only do athletes die in open water - athletes who ONLY DO SWIMMING AND WHOSE WHOLE LIVES ARE SWIMMING die in open water. How could anyone claim it’s safe for a bunch of gym monkeys who only swim to train for the games?
Is there a citation on “technical climbing”? Men and women’s competitive climbing is separated because there’s such a huge impact with height and strength, so I’m surprised to hear they’re considered similar?
From what I'm seeing, technical climbing involves specialized climbing equipment like ropes, ice tools, etc. Basically, that's going to be climbing on actual outside surfaces such as mountains. The competitive climbing tends to be stuff like indoor climbing walls, although it's certainly not limited to those. Competitive climbs also tend to be non-technical - not requiring specialized climbing equipment (although a harness is usually worn for safety purposes)
I'm a climber and I don't know exactly what she means by technical climbing. Strength plays a role in climbing, but not as much as people might think. You're not doing pull ups the whole time. A lot of it is technique, creativity, and endurance (especially if it's a long climb) Strength to weight ratio is more important. That's why little kids can do super well climbing indoors
@@nikkibenda2421 And is a good explanation as to why women would excel at this. You can pack a lot of punch in those compact bodies, not as much sheer power, sure, but a lot of it in a little container.
I don’t think we should be telling people that the BMI is useless. Most obese people aren’t doing long-distance swimming. even bodybuilders with extra weight from muscle get extra strains on their heart from the extra weight.
The Canadian triathlete puking wasn't related to the river. Lots of WTCS athletes puke at the finish. It's an insanely intense effort and it requires fueling during the race. Same thing happened in Tokyo. In Rio. At every race on the WTCS circuit. It's been enough time that we know that no triathletes got sick from the river.
Former swimmer here, the best long distance swimmers we had were about 80% women. The best sprinters we had were all men. Normally men and women race same sex but at one particular swim meet I remember an event was going to be cancelled because so few were participating and time was limited. Judges decided men and women from the same event would share the pool, technically not competing against the opposite gender but at the same time and place. I felt so humiliated when I had to swim the 400m as a sprinter, alongside only 2 other swimmers, both women. Not only did I "lose", but I was lapped (she told me later it was really good motivation and she wanted to lap me twice, go figure). Something something, don't try to teach a fish to climb a tree 😅
15:25 I was on my high school swim team all 4 years, but it was only my Senior Year that I swam the 500 (the longest race in US high school swimming). When swimming that event, my main focus was on MAINTAINING the number of strokes (per length of the pool) throughout the race.
I once swam for 2 hours in salt water. My body was fine, but my mouth was very irritated, with a sore sensation that lasted like two days. It's almost as if I ate a whole pineapple in a single sitting and got sore from the acid. Never again. I'll happily swim in fresh water, and at most one hour.
I can't believe France let them swim in that human waste river. What a disgrace. Wowen outperforming men may have something to do with higher body fat. You don’t need to work as hard to stay afloat when you're more buoyant.
The Olympics are all about bringing that sweet money into the country, not the sports or athletes, and the Seine is pretty much a national monument so...
@@haroldthaf definitely lower stamina, due to men outperforming them in any other stamina based sport. But for sure higher pain tolerance, especially with this super painful sport
I dont think you should leave out the fact that the french people were protesting the Olympics by using the restroom in the river. This was planned by the people 😂
As much as I hate watching ads, the way you transition to yours at the end of your videos lulls me into forgetting that I'm watching one all of a sudden.
I saw it coming miles away. I just stayed along to see how smooth the transition was and move on. I've heard Brilliants shpeel enough times. (My spell checker wants me to write "spiel" but that's just not how I've ever heard it pronounced. I respectfully disagree.)
As a protest against the situations around the Olympic Games, there was a protest "pooping in thecSeine". It was a strange publicity stunt that they maintained that it was safe to swim in.
courtney dauwalter is an american ultrarunner who has outright won super ultra running races ahead of the men and many times will finish in the top 5 or 10 of the finishers, counting both man and woman. Usually the longer the distance of running, the closer the finishing times as the race is more and more about the strength of the mind as opposed to strength of the body
@@WilliamKiely Any alternative hypothesis? The Western States Endurance run, the "boston" of 100 mile ultra trail running tends to say that to finish the race, 50% is physical, 50% is mental. Obviously those are made up numbers, and I should say Im an ultrarunner and tend to agree with the longer the distance the more the mind comes into effect hypothesis, but Im obviously open to alternative ideas as those would be good ideas to test and potentially make use of to improve time or increase distance
Given that anecdotally at least, far more men tend to push themselves near the point of death in sports than women, particularly in terms of ignoring warning signs and taking risks, mental strength is not likely to be the reason for superior female performance. The more believable reason is actually that women tend to be better at listening to and reacting to the warning signs their bodies give them, which means giving their bodies a better chance of not being completely broken before they even get to the end of the event. Many male endurance athletes will push through the pain to see if they can cheat the wear and tear of an ultra distance event, because if it pays off they get in quicker, while more of the female competitors will take consistent breaks and do the self-care stuff (Like eating consistently and changing socks) better, which means as the distances get too far for those trying to push to the end without stops, the more careful routine becomes the winning option. Also men will often tend to overestimate their ability to complete these events, while women tend to underestimate it, so they tend to be better trained and better prepared on average, though this is unlikely to contribute at the top level, but it does contribute to higher male rates of dropping out of marathons for example.
@@peglor ah. I see the issue. I was not implying that mental strength differs between men and women. I was implying that the ability to complete long distance events relays more on mental strength and less on physical strength. The phrase “sprinters are born but distance runners are made” comes to mind. From that perspective I’m saying because there is not evidence enough to warrant saying one sex has more mental strength than another, if we assume both sexes have equal mental strength on average, then when we get to distances long enough that the average pace is low enough that physical differences between sexes no longer matter as much as they did, then at that particular event and on that particular day, the person who can keep it together mentally the best will have the greatest chance of success. I was not speaking to swimming, as in that realm, as stated in the video, there may be some factors that aid women such as higher body fat composition and the observation that women tend to be more fat adapted metabolically and men tend to be more glucose adapted, over long events, burning fat becomes a huge part of the metabolic formula. Also, I’ve done plenty of ultra events and I’m somewhat dubious of your comments about the gender differences in the context of those events within the top 20 of the men and women. Among the general group I think you are right, but I tend to see, anecdotally at least, that the top men and top women are much more similar in their personalities and approach. But I’m not sure. You might be right, but the answer feels hollow in some way
CORRECTION: The right ventricle pumps blood to the lungs for gas exchange. The left ventricle pumps blood out to the rest of the body. Minor detail but its important
What women helps in ultra long distances aswell is the fact that their metabolism produces more energy from fat than from carbs. In men, the extra energy comes mostly from carbs, which can be burned off faster than can be build up. While this is true for women aswell, the fat metabolism in women is, adjusted for weight, on pair with the fat metabolism in men. Combined with the fact that less energy is expanded overall for the same type of movement, this can lead to better female performance in ultra long distances, as men can't utilize their advantage in the carb metabolism. Some Numbers from "Fuel metabolism in men and women during and after long-duration exercise": In 2 hours of cycling Men burned 125 g of Carbohydrates and 45 g of fat Women burned 73 g of Carbohydrates iand 36 g of fat. in that study therefore men had a 71 % higher carb metabolism, but only 25 % higher fat metabolism. On a longer distance, the "carb advantage" would diminish, as the body only stores a few hundred grams of glycogen in the muscles.
Glycogen stored in muscles is irrelevant for endurance exercise because it will all be used up by the time you're doing anything that qualifies as endurance exercise. By eating during exercise the carbohydrate levels can be continuously replenished, so it's not a finite resource. Generally the body only burns fat during exercise if it has no other alternative as converting fat back to usable sugars takes time and energy, which would better be spent processing freshly eaten carbohydrates.
@@peglor first: No glycogen is not used up as quickly as you suggest. A male athlete stores abput 600 g in its muscles which is about 2100 kcal. Since only the glycogen in the correspondent muscle can be used, about 200 g of glycogen (i.e. Quads+Gluts, since they were cycling) is usable. The burnrate in the study I cited was 62 g/hour. Solid 3 hours+ Of workout, but not much more. Second: As I wrote, the body is not able to replenish its glycogen storage during the workout fast enough. It can replenish about 2-5 % of its maximum capacity per hour, even with optimal nutrition. So after about 4 hours, give or take a bit, depending on stored glycogen, the athletes in this study will run out of glycogen and will experience a sharp decrease in their power.
@@lars3509 Very interesting information, but swimming uses a much smaller muscle set, and my understanding is gylcogen storage is proportional to muscle mass, so the glycogen will be diminished quite a bit more quickly swimming than from cycling or running, which use much bigger muscles. In real world conditions athlete's power output doesn't drop off a cliff at 3 or 4 hours either, mine certainly doesn't, which means that another system - namely processing carbohydrate based food to power the muscles - has already kicked in provided the athlete is eating regularly, so power output can continue. Also, even those taking part in events they will finish within 3 hours still eat along the way, so topping up the body's energy via food is important for holding pace even for events that should be easily done on just glycogen. If you don't eat, or are pushing too hard for there to be blood supply available to keep the stomach working properly, the body will move to burning fat, but without specifically training to do this, and even with this training for athletes who want the best performance, power output will definitely suffer, so an improvement in the ability to convert fat probably isn't that great an advantage for women competing against men, who all other things being equal are genetically more athletic. This issue of running out of available energy to run the muscles is termed bonking in the cycling word. Once you've gone into that zone, no amount of being better at processing fat is going to help maintain the pace, though maybe the pace is so low for the extremely long endurance events that they can be run on fat, but I doubt if anyone actually setting records can get away with that.
It’s interesting to mention how high physical activity in swimming can basically cause a low grade fever. This has been a theory in evolutionary anthropology that people who were sick in hunter gatherer cultures were at time made to dance for basically days until they fell into a trance-like state where they forced something equivalent onto them. It’s very interesting when you think about dance and physical activity as medicine.
Makes sense especially the reduce drag that is a big factors in my opinion. A fish can stay in a super fast current river due to their super low drag while we would be washed away. So a 10-15% difference is a big deal over hours and miles.
Just a point of correction. The right ventricle pumps blood to the lungs for oxygenation. The left ventricle is the one that pumps blood out to the body via the aorta. Thanks for a very interesting video. Keep up the great work.
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I used to swim professionally as a child, I still swim ok. But never in an open water (I have a phobia).I hope this video goes well, but I'm too terrified to watch
@@imcicily Professional means you get paid to do the sport. Where do 9 y.o. children get paid to swim (Except maybe as child actors where looking the part is the priority).
9:14 Right ventricle pumps to lungs, not body. You can see it's marked blue to show it's taking in deoxygenated blood from the body via the superior and inferior vena cava then pumping out into pulmonary arteries left and right. The heart is "skewed" left because the left ventricle needs to pump oxygenated blood to the body and therefore is stronger.
My doctors have told me since I was 20 that the BMI recommended for my height would actually make me underweight. My body type isn't one that BMI takes into account.
@@gunnerfreemen1000 And I even tried to make that point, and she was just like, "well, that is what I have to go off of, if not BMI, which basically every paper is based on, then what?" Everything is correlated to BMI, so even if it doesn't matter for health reasons, specifically, it does correlate. But I wonder how true that correlation is if you correct for all the factors that lead to healthy and and unhealth BMI's -- this is nearly impossible to do in practice, but it would be interesting to see.
Sorry, bur BMI is an iron indicator of health. Bodybuilders arent healthy. Obesity is not healthy. You CAN be fit AND obese but it is exceedingly rare to find obese athletes and even those are not ideally healthy. Having 35% body fat is not good for sumo wrestlers health, even if it might help em in tournaments. Its is not good for long distance swimmers even if it can help em with boyancy and it is not good for you, no matter what you would like to be true
Nah it's pretty worthless all the way through. Everything from childhood Karate, high school sports, military training, I've seen people that by BMI are obese outperform people who aren't consistently. Not everytime, but enough to prove to me that the measurement is useless
That is so true about proper form in long distance swimming. I swam a lot in high school. If I kept proper form and proper pacing, I almost didn’t get tired doing laps. The limiting factor was that eventually I’d feel I was starving and had to go eat.
When I was a kid, I used to swim competitively. I miss it to this day, and have always wanted to do some sort of long distance swim; though not one that would last for longer than a handful of hours. My mother eventually pulled me out of my swim club, for reasons that I can't remember, and while I was extremely upset that I couldn't swim competitively anymore, I was also glad. After a year or two I'd started getting blinding migraines after competition or practice because we'd have to shower off before we left and then I'd step outside into freezing temperatures as we were living in Alaska at the time. Even with a hat and proper winter attire, my hair would inevitably freeze and I'd be a shivering mess until we got home.
Women are literally built for stamina and endurance. We've known this for millennia. Generally speaking, men have strength muscles, while women have endurance muscles. Not really a mystery.
This is why I always do 75min workouts every other day, because rest days with massages etc…are crucial to total fitness in conjunction with proper nutrition. Homeostasis really is just well balanced all around. Extreme stress is just not conducive.
"homeostasis" is achieved by the body. Not you doing it consciously. But you are correct in that exercise breaks down the body, and rest (most importantly, sleep) restores and can improve it. As for "extreme stress"...spot on. Causing damage is not heroic.
The lady swimming from Cuba to Florida is an absolute unit. Pure willpower. Like she is for certain a top athlete, but to keep going when you puke and hallucinate. To fail several times after multiple kilometers and return regardless. Nothing but respect.
A few days ago, a 53 year old German woman called Marion Dang completed a 30-times iron man over a few weeks. According to an interview I saw, she only started running in 2007, when she failed to finish a city run of about 7,5 km. Some human bodies are pretty damn heroic!
interesting to see this niche sport highlighting the differences in our physiology between men and women, especially the combintion of factors that dimish mens advantages and highlight womens traits to get the edge in these specific extremes
@@lancewalker2595 It is but that’s irrelevant to this topic. The social roles and general expectations for men, women, and in some cultures additional genders, vary across both time and place. Even just in the last hundred or so years there’s been some interesting changes! For example in some places pink used to be a boys’ colour and blue used to be a girls’ colour, but now the reverse (pink for girls, blue for boys) has become seemingly universal. And while most of the early tech workers were women it’s been a male-dominated field ever since women were systematically pushed out in the 70s.
@@EmL-kg5gn It's clear that you haven't done very much quality thinking about this subject. Let's just start with the following claim as it indicates your ignorance of even the most intuitive principles of basic economics: "most of the early tech workers were women it’s been a male-dominated field ever since women were systematically pushed out in the 70s". Not only is this claim historically erroneous based on nothing more than a contrived and ideologically motivated re-definition of "tech", but it's actually self-evidently absurd and should be recognizably ridiculous on the basis of pure reason; if it were true that women dominated "tech" then it must logically follow that women possessed the majority of the power within that field, so unless by "pushed out" you mean that women were OUT COMPETED by men, how exactly do you imagine it was possible for women "to be pushed out" of a field in which they were a majority? Economic power is not derived from arbitrary social or political whim, where there is a demand for a good or service the market will naturally give rise to a supply proportional to that demand; if you presume to reject the validity of this most fundamental law of economics, then what, beyond the market, do you imagine is responsible for controlling the irreducible complexities of the economy?
BMI has a tonne of limitations but because someone didn’t get as cold as expected in an open water swim does not mean that it is a poor indicator of health. Excess adipose tissue is a very specific adaptation for open water swimmers exposed to cold temperatures. Not a lot of real science here at all.
Physically these swimmers are incredible. However you gotta be actually insane to ever even consider swimming around manhatten. Swimming near any major city is a terrible idea. But Manhatten? Thats next level atrocious
Sadly the CrossFit Games had a preventable drowning. The rule is to start with a swim and end with a run. CrossFit switched the order for this race. When you get tired running you can stop when you get tired swimming you drown.
Hold up, being smaller does not necessarily decrease drag! If you're skinnier, yes, that does decrease drag. However, if you're less tall, that increases drag How tall you are affects wave length. Waves are created by displacing water, which takes energy. Like the sound barrier, the water also doesn't like being displaced. You either have to hydroplane or create 'shock waves', both of which take a lot of energy, so it's better to avoid it by being tall enough. The speed at which you have to hydroplane increases with waterline length. Generally speaking, it takes 15% more energy if you're small than when you're pretty tall! However, you displace more water when you're tall, so you don't want to be taller than needed
It's a sign of stamina. You associate athletic ability with health, while working out is good for health unhealthy factors can benefit in sports. Buoyancy is also helpful for swimming and fat floats.@@WilliamKiely
Why do we call it poop water xD We have fancy words such as sewage for that. And tend to use them, but for some weird reason not with poop water. (We do the same exact thing in Sweden and I hate it). 😅
You got the Climbing Statement wrong As a climber my self I see the reality and women just climb as hard as man but that’s a story of maximum strength and not endurance
I would also think that the standards for calculating hypothermia also usually don´t figure in the extreme exertion of endurance swimming, because most charts tend to center around the survival of normal people keeping above water. The human body produces surpising amunts of heat when exerting itself. And while swimming most of the muskulutare is used. So the extremetys would not become as cold during timed swimming and trying to be as fast as possible compared to just swimming normally.
I have permanent tachycardia. I have a resting heart rate between 140bpm-200bpm 24/7 and have for nearly 20 years. They don't know the cause. I take Amiodarone. I have had ablation and have ILR implanted (I've had many over the last decade). No medications work, no cardioversion works. Adenosine sent my heart rate up to 370bpm, the opposite of what it's supposed to do. It is exhausting but you learn to manage. I don't notice palpatations unless I think of them. I am 30 but I am exhausted all the time, moving causes chest pain. I deal with the equivilent of heart attack symptoms multiple times a week but have learned to ignore it because it's just normal for me (chest pain, crushing chest pain, nausea and vomiting, breathless, pale, clammy etc). I have a permanent fever with a body temp over 38 degrees Celsius all the time due to my heart rate. My Troponin is always elevated. I am under the best cardiology hospital in the UK and case reviewed by the best across the world. But nothing has worked, no conditions fit it exactly. Something similar is Inappropriate Sinus Tachycardia but it's nothing like that. I would love to have IST instead of this. My ILR recorded a heart rate of over 140bpm 24/7 for years. Never dropping below it. It's not common at all and rarely heard of. IST isn't life-threatening, it's exhausting and debilitating to those who have it but it's not dangerous. The heart can take episodes of fast heart rate, it's no different to someone running a marathon for a few hours. But persistent tachycardia every second for decades isn't normal and the fact nothing works to bring it down has baffled the best. Despite all of this, I get on as well as I can. I am pretty housebound, my wife of 10 years is amazing and we have a 4 year old son and 2 year old daughter. I was fortunate enough to be able to retire at 23 and my specialists urged it for my own good knowing that I could, so I could take it easy for the rest of my life. Still, I feel I have it far luckier than many others. Some people have even worse and painful conditions. I also have arthritis, CRPS, a pulmonary shunt etc and have to take Morphine every day (this doesn't affect my heart rate, we have tested this many times). But if the pain isn't controlled, it worsens my heart rate. The most annoying thing is it causes sudden loss of consciousness collapses with no warning. I could be lying down, I could be feeling amazing. It's NOT POTS. It doesn't matter if I suddenly get up. That has never caused a collapse. I could be feeling amazing and the best and have a collapse randomly in any position, and the next time feel the worst ever and exert myself the most I ever have and not have a collapse. Hundreds of LOC episodes show there is no correlation to what causes it. It's truly random depending on when the heart gets exhausted and has a moment, like a reset for itself. Despite all of this, my heart muscle is relatively ok. The heart muscle is a truly amazing muscle. What it can deal with is amazing.
wow this is crazy, persisting even with amiodarone and after an ablation. Do your doctors have any theories on what's causing your tachycardia? and do you not take any beta blockers?
Omg that sounds exhausting!! And frustrating. I have undiagnosed chronic illness myself so I empathise with that aspect. I hope you find answers one day
That's shocking 😞. Beyond about 250 bpm the heart doesn't really move blood at all, so hitting 370 will be what the electrical side of the heart is trying to drive the muscle to, but the heart muscle won't be doing any useful pumping at that point. If your heart is smaller than average it'll tend to run faster, but there's no way it could be enough smaller for that heart rate to make sense without your doctors noticing. I sit at the other end of the spectrum - when my heart rate hits 60 it feels like it's racing, because I'm used to about 40 sitting around, but have seen as low as 32 bpm, both counting the beats myself over a minute and on fitness watches, usually while asleep.
Yeah above 300, the heart isn’t really beating. They said it’s more ‘fluttering’ and is why it went into an arrhythmia called ‘Atrial Flutter’. My poor father and wife were already traumatised at arrival because they saw paramedics rush me in the doors, nurses began cutting my shirt off and slap huge defib pads on etc (their recollection as I was unconscious) and they were told they need to go with a nurse to the relatives room whilst I was taken to resus to be worked on. My poor wife, who was just my girlfriend at the time and had only been with for a few months was obviously very distressed but she knew I had cardiac issues and had experienced many blue light ambulance runs to hospital by now. She was only 16 at the time! But then they were brought back out as I regained consciousness. In fact I regain consciousness as they were cutting my clothes off and asked them to stop as I liked them and started removing them myself lol. So I regained consciousness not long after getting into resus. So obviously I woke up to a very concerned looking father trying to make jokes and be all lighthearted for my partners sake who I could see had been crying. I told them I was fine and nothing was wrong and the nurses had a laugh and said that was the understatement of the year. The first thing they did was Cardioversion. It’s the same as defibrillation expect you’re awake. I’ve had it many times. They shock you to try reset the heart into a normal rhythm and speed. It hurts like a motherf… and this is with the sedation they give you! They sedate you enough that you’re out of it. But no amount of sedation is enough to cover up the massive jolt of electricity that makes your body jump on the hospital bed and leaves the horrible smell of burnt hair. I’ve had so many I have a burn scar on my chest from one Cardioversion. Don’t even know how it happened but have a pad outline shape on my left side from one attempt. Also they don’t just shock you once. They can do it many times if it keeps failing and increasing the power they shock you at. But this didn’t do anything as I told them it wouldn’t based on past attempts. But yeah after the adenosine which was maybe 2 hours after arrival, there was a calm panic amongst the staff and doctors because they were extremely aware of me and my issues and knew the hospital had tried many times in the past to lower my heart rate and nothing worked, and they’ve just given me a drug that has just made it far, far worse and cannot reverse it. They didn’t say anything at the time, they said that my heart rate is a faster than it was and they wanted to just put me on oxygen and monitor me closely for the next few minutes. And instead of normal monitoring, this was a lot of nurses and doctors standing around me watching the monitor and preparing some drugs. I’ve been in resus many times and never had that. When they say they’re going to closely monitor me, they ensure I’m on the heart monitor, oxygen sats etc and then leave me in my bed and monitor me from the control centre in the middle of resus. I later found out after it settled (it only took about 5 minutes) that they didn’t say at the time but my heart rate was “not sustainable with life for very long” and they had the crash cart, drugs drawn and specialists all standing by ready for a cardiac arrest because the chances of this were very high, but they also felt that confident that immediate intervention would reverse any problems as they strongly believed the adenosine was reacting and causing it and that it was apparently a very, very short life drug that would wear off and hopefully along with the increased heart rate. So they said they basically had all the resources and staff about as if I were a patient in cardiac arrest, except they were doing anything because I wasn’t, but they expected me to, a bit like someone in peri-arrest. They didn’t say anything as they felt that would only cause me further anxiety and stress and they didn’t wish to say anything that would push my heart rate any further or cause more strain, nor tell my father or partner because they knew I would pick up on their behaviour and concern. My wife stayed with me the entire time and my father waited outside the bay (the resus bay I was in was huge, you could probably fit 4 beds in it!) but I guess it’s to allow many staff to be around a patient and all kinds of equipment. They said the plan was set for cardiac arrest: the bed was in CPR mode/config already, whatever that is. One staff member had already been assigned the duty of removing my partner and taking her and my father to the relatives room if I arrested. Cardiology was already aware. And as mentioned, all drugs needed in an arrest were drawn or being drawn, or prepared up to the point it can be so that it was instantly ready to go. Cannulas and lines all in, confirmed all good with flushes etc. Oxygen on, defib pads. This all happened in minutes but felt so long. I was impressed at how organised it was from the moment they realised the heart rate shot up that high and it wasn’t an issue with the pulse oximeter device or ecg stickers (they did try changing fingers for the device as well as they couldn’t believe it was that high and was just an error). So after 5 or so minutes it came back down. No, not to a slower heart rate that it’s supposed to do when you take Adenosine or have cardioversion. It went back to where it was right before they gave it lol. My Troponin wasn’t even that high after all of that! I mean it wasn’t great but it wasn’t concerning and the repeated Trop tests they did showed it wasn’t climbing very much at all in between and basically slowed down/stopped by the 3rd. They kept me in for 24 hour monitoring. I was discharged with a stable heart rate of about 160bpm and barely elevated Troponin levels. As the chest pain was only there when I exerted myself and oxygen levels fine etc, I said I feel fine and would be happier in my own bed to rest and they agreed after consulting specialists and other specialists hospital and all concluding that this is just a cardiac condition they don’t understand but that clearly tachycardia is my normal resting heart rate, and it’s not doing that much harm being left alone and that trying to treat it is leading to more complications that could do more harm than if left. So my specialist cardiologist hospital monitor my heart rate and rhythm remotely 24/7 with an implanted device and they alert me the moment my heart goes into a dangerous arrhythmia or goes over a certain HR (one that is far higher than normal for me). I take Amiodarone as it helps a little and have been on it for 4 years but it’s a very toxic drug and many cardiologists refuse to prescribe it because of this and it cannot be taken long term, so I will be taking a break from it soon. Amiodarone is the second longest half life drug in the world. It takes 14 months for this drug to be completely out of your system after you took your last dose pill. When they measured me before, it took about 3 months from the last dose to reach half life. This is why it’s risky. It can cause Amiodarone toxicity which is life threatening. The problem is, by the time you know your have toxicity, you can stop taking the drug, but your tissues are filled with reserves that will continue to drip into your blood stream at high doses for many more months which makes it worse. It’s like finding out you have alcohol poisoning, and then drinking a litre of vodka every day for the next 3 months. Difference is you can choose to stop poisoning yourself after you have alcohol poisoning. You can’t stop the amiodarone if you have amiodarone toxicity. Nothing can remove it from your system or speed it up. If has a much higher complication and fatality rate than many drugs. But usually the benefits outweigh these risks.
"Just shows that BMI is usseless" - just because he can swim much, it doesnt mean he is healthy or he is not first in line to get hypertension etc. Just mechanical stress on your kidneys caused by fat can cause it.
4:40 Check your story!!! The 10-puker is from North Canada, France is MUCH warmer than he is used to. He had stomach issues from the heat long before swimming. Real Science=bad research😮
It’s me. I’m the average couch potato. Can confirm, my heart is small, I might have asthma. I’m struggling to breathe laying on my side watching this. I was briefly a swim teacher. Even a slightly warm pool is hard to breathe in. My lungs were fighting everyday.
Great video topic, thanks. The "why woman are better" thumbnail is perfect, as the picture of the woman swimming in the oceam immediately conveys "at endurance swimming", which is something I've heard before. That said, I'd appreciate a more in-depth analysis of the subject. E.G. -- What percentage of athletes are women in marathon swimming races? -- How do average times for women compare to men? -- Share more than the top 10 results. It's still unclear to me whether there is a selection effect going on, and whether the fastest women are really faster than the fastest men.
Yes I’d love more detail too! I don’t expect there’s answers available but I’d also be curious about social factors, for example I know women’s sport is typically less well funded and girls’ athletic development is often hindered to some extent even in early childhood
The google is right there my friend. From my understanding it’s actually the average woman ultra-swimmer who is faster than the average man ultra-swimmer, pooled from a hundred years of history or whatever. When it gets to the elite level it evens out more. Hit the books!
Huh? The title of the video is not "why woman are better" (or thumbnail). It is "Why Long Distance Swimming is So Dangerous [...]". Maybe it has been changed in the four weeks since upload?
This video makes a great point. open water long distance swimming is torture with a high risk of death. thats why almost no one is doing it. If you google the records for long distance swimming you see the 7 persons holding the records which are 5 men and 2 women.
Also there are hundreds of man eating sharks in there! I saw it on the Netflix Documentary called Under Paris! Hard to believe, but they have it all on video.
Btw a lot of the info in this video explains why I was always ill for the whole week after an event or even a "general rehearsal" type of training back when I used to swim long(ish, the people mentioned in the video are obviously a different league lol) distances(or tbh swam at all)
