Has anyone used any of the strength training plans from this book by David Salo? I had planned to follow this starting in January, but when it came right down to it, the plans seemed nebulous and possibly a bit out of date compared to other plans I had available (non swim specific). So I went with another option for the time being.
Any thoughts, opinions?
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I was hoping you would chime in because your schedule seems to be what I go for as well. I'm regretfully cutting weights back to 2x/week because I was just running myself into the ground.
The upper body strengthening is frustrating to me because yeah, it trashes the swimming but I really do want to build my maximum strength more, and fill in with swimming for endurance strength. I hope that makes sense.:blush: It does to me.
Suck it up. If lifting is making you tired in mid season, who cares? It's mid season. Your focus meet is at the end of the season. Saying that lifting might be detrimental to swimming because it makes you tired the same/next day is like saying that swimming itself is detrimental to swimming because it makes you tired in the following minutes.
I was hoping you would chime in because your schedule seems to be what I go for as well. I'm regretfully cutting weights back to 2x/week because I was just running myself into the ground.
The upper body strengthening is frustrating to me because yeah, it trashes the swimming but I really do want to build my maximum strength more, and fill in with swimming for endurance strength. I hope that makes sense.:blush: It does to me.
Suck it up. If lifting is making you tired in mid season, who cares? It's mid season. Your focus meet is at the end of the season. Saying that lifting might be detrimental to swimming because it makes you tired the same/next day is like saying that swimming itself is detrimental to swimming because it makes you tired in the following minutes.
