Broadening shoulders at 22 years old and gaining endurance.

hey Zoi Poy, you asked: Will swimming broaden my shoulders at this age still? Swimming might broaden your shoulders but not like weight lifting will. Our shoulders are the over all impression of our bone structure, muscles Delts, Lats, Traps, Pecs, biceps, and triceps & posture. There's plenty of books on how to gain strength size and mass by lifting weights. Weight lifting won't change your bone structure. You could flare your lats and hold your arms out slightly, but it's probably better to appear relaxed and confident, than a poser trying to make his shoulders appear bigger than they are. We have a tendancy to be our own worst critics. Some folks focus on body parts they're dissaticefied with. I suggest adding a dose of self acceptance and self esteem. Your body is the only body you're ever going to get, it's amazing and wonderful, treat it well, it needs to last a long time. You can also shift your self image and what you believe to be true about yourself. you would like to get back into swimming, but the problem is your endurance is absolutely horrible. During swim team you had to take so many breaks, it was bad. you wrote you have no clue why your endurance never really improved. I was swimming with some people the other day who barely swam or worked out and they can swim longer than I can. I don't know whats up. I get tired too easily. It might be your endurance and conditioning but it's probably your technique. It sounds like you are trying too hard. You need to learn how to relax and swim smoothly and efficiently, then do tougher sets to build up your endurance. Make a video of you swimming freestyle Front & away angles, from the side, and underwater if you have a friend with an underwater video camera Put it or them on youtube. Paste the link here and ask folks to watch your technique and offer comments Watch this video: www.youtube.com/watch notice how the swimmers head is down, his pulls are relaxed long and smooth and his legs are together and still till he does small fast efficient kicks to balance out his stroke. If you swam like that, you would not get as worn out. Copy that technique when you swim. Hope this helps, Ande

Thanks. I'll see tomorrow night if my technique is off. It looks like it because I may be pushing it too hard. I always go faster than everyone else for some reason so I will probably have to slow it down. I notice in that video that guy takes it easy and he still moves smoothly. I'm not like that at all, I always peddle hard. I'm actually fine with my shoulders, it would just be nicer if its wider. They are fairly wide for someone my height, but I see those Olympic swimmers with really broad shoulders, makes me want it haha. I'd rather have narrow shoulders and be tall though. But yeah, I'm fine with my build so far.

Wow, I've never thought so much about my shoulders. Then again, when we were house hunting and looking at older houses with narrow staircases, it was evident that my swimmers shoulders might be an issue when I knocked a picture off the wall!