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?
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I have actually found it quite helpful and it has improved my overall ability to sprint in the pool although it takes time and too much of it will cause you to be very very sore and not as able to practice as hard however that lasts only a day or so after and it is well worth it. I have had a shoulder injury and it has been key to keeping my yardage up (40,000ish a week) with out pain from the injury because the muscles around it are strong.
I have had a shoulder injury also, so I do very little heavy lifting with the upper body. I mostly work on stabilizing my shoulder girdle as a whole, doing internal/external rotation and scapular retractions for the rotator cuff and rhomboids and do mobility exercises to stay flexible.
I have actually found it quite helpful and it has improved my overall ability to sprint in the pool although it takes time and too much of it will cause you to be very very sore and not as able to practice as hard however that lasts only a day or so after and it is well worth it. I have had a shoulder injury and it has been key to keeping my yardage up (40,000ish a week) with out pain from the injury because the muscles around it are strong.
I have had a shoulder injury also, so I do very little heavy lifting with the upper body. I mostly work on stabilizing my shoulder girdle as a whole, doing internal/external rotation and scapular retractions for the rotator cuff and rhomboids and do mobility exercises to stay flexible.
