I will be swimming five days a week. I want to use the other two days for complementary non-swimming workouts. I am looking for suggestions. Being that I am out of shape the first thing that comes to mind is weight training. I could see some yoga in there as well.
Or...should I only use one day for a non-swimming workout and rest for one day?
This may be true for freestyle, backstroke and butterfly, but my breaststroke has definitely benefited from squats and deadlifts.
Not true for fly and back sprints either in my experience. My times have dropped after adding these and other lower body exercises. Also, if you're kicking 10-15 meters underwater, the distinction between turning and kicking is blurred.
Not true for fly and back sprints either in my experience. My times have dropped after adding these and other lower body exercises. Also, if you're kicking 10-15 meters underwater, the distinction between turning and kicking is blurred.
Although I am no where near Fort's times, I can second what she said. When I started with my current team, I added in their dry land of running, jump ropes, torpedo jumps, etc. And I started dropping time.
Starts and turns, yes; kicking, no.
This may be true for freestyle, backstroke and butterfly, but my breaststroke has definitely benefited from squats and deadlifts.
I alternate swimming with inline skating. These two activities do not seem to me to be as mutually beneficial as some of those suggested by others, but I enjoy both and each allows me to recover somewhat from the other. Life is too short to do things, at least optional things, that you do not enjoy.
Now if I was an elite skater or swimmer, my perspective would probably be different.
I am a HS swim coach and also swimmer. Morning before school I have my kids doing p90x. Not all of the different days but Plyo, Chest and Back, Arms and shoulders, legs and back with stretch bands/chords...NO WEIGHTS.
As for myself I am on deployment in the middle east til May and when I can I go 2 a day's...swim and p90x I take advantage of it. That is when I have the opportunity. Sometimes I can't swim and I focus on my cardio. But I have dropped 32 lbs. Went from 257 in May down to 225. I am 6'3" and when I get off deployment I want to be around 215 so I can focus on World Master's games.
