Effective weight training for female swimmers-Y/N?
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I've joined an online 'milage club'-a group of people with various abilities,some training for marathons others coming back from injuries,all keeping track of and sharing their efforts-and the topic of weight training has come up.Out of 30 or so people I am the only one who swims as well as biking/walking,everybody else runs,walks,bikes or does the elyptical.Does weight training differ for swimmers vs. runners?I swim ***/back stroke only-no free-and I feel as if I already do a lot of upperbody and if I add weights as they are suggested in this blog-I'm gonna compromise my ablity to swim eficiently.Any thoughts or ideas?
blog.metaboliceffect.com/.../
As long as you don't injure yourself, and you use weights as a complement to your swimming rather than a replacement, it won't compromise your ability to swim efficiently. You're not going to get "too big". If anything compromises your ability to swim efficiently, it's going to be either bad technique or injury. Or both.
Of course, there are definitely certain areas where you'll get more bang for your buck...
As long as you don't injure yourself, and you use weights as a complement to your swimming rather than a replacement, it won't compromise your ability to swim efficiently. You're not going to get "too big". If anything compromises your ability to swim efficiently, it's going to be either bad technique or injury. Or both.
Of course, there are definitely certain areas where you'll get more bang for your buck...
