Cracking the Age Grading Code for Swimming with Dr. Jim Parker, MD, EP 329
Podcast: Outswim for Masters Swimmers · Kelly Palace, Masters Swimmer
Opublikowano: 2026-11-03
Why is the slowing tick of the pace clock the only metric measuring your athletic worth as you age? Every adult swimmer confronts biological decline down to the mitochondrial level—diminishing V02 max, declining peak power, and loss of muscle mass. Yet for decades, competitive Masters swimming has evaluated your progress against arbitrary five-year age brackets and raw stopwatch times, obscuring your true athletic achievement. In this episode, host Kelly Palace sits down with Outswim Score co-founder Dr. Jim Parker—board-certified radiologist, Cruzbike inventor, and champion endurance athlete—to introduce a revolutionary breakthrough: The...