International Swimming Hall of Fame inductee Tim Shead smashed the world record in the 50m breaststroke by an astounding 1.2 seconds yesterday in the South African Masters Swim Championships in Cape Town South African.
Swimming in the 70 + age group, the World Record had been held by the USA’s Robert Wright in a time of 36.21 seconds before Tim blasted 35.01 yesterday, an unheard of 1.2 second drop in a short 50 race.
Tim was asked how he felt about breaking the record, and also about the amazing amount he dropped it by. Tim said he was hoping to break it, felt he could and should based on his history, but nonetheless was still surprised he did and even more surprised by the amount. He said a combination of Covid, lack of training and his age had him wondering how well he would swim.
I had noticed that at about age 60 and especially 65 and above, the times of swimmers dropped off quite substantially. This could only be due to a natural loss of muscle and other changes due to aging. And of course Covid had limited any ability to train properly or access critical weight training. A double whammy to all swimmers and especially people of my age.
So I knew I had to double down on making sure I was getting proper nutrition to minimize the negative, health robbing effects of aging.
P2Life is well known in Masters swimming where athletes with a long history of taking P2Life dominate the USA and World Records having set well over 825 world records
More recently P2Life is becoming much more well known in age group, collegiate and Olympic swimmers with standout young up and coming swimmers such as Olympic Matt Sates, Caspar Corbeau, Patrick Callan and Katie Grimes have come out stating they too have been on P2Life for several years.
See an interview with SwimSwam CEO and Tim Shead here:
I remember in HS Ryan Murphy was taking P2Life after every practice and I would make fun of him asking “did you drink your chocolate milkshake yet”? I was always very skeptical about the supplements my teammates were taking in HS/College and would always think of the disappointment of possibly being caught in any anti-doping test. Fast-forward 10 years later he is a multi Olympic champion with millions $$ in sponsorships and I have an avg corporate job. I always wonder how my performance would’ve been had I taken the correct supplements in HS/College. P2Life is for sure a trustworthy brand with outstanding results! Great job Tim!