Calling all USMS members. Your response to this post will be used to create an article in Swimmer magazine about cross training. What types of training do you most commonly do outside of the pool? How often? What cross training works the best, and what types are the least helpful for swimming? :bliss:
Adherents of the Rushall approach, not to mention the general principle of muscle specificity of training, would indicate that golf is no better--or worse--for swimming than weight lifting! If you golf like I do, at least you get to go into the water on a frequent basis to retrieve misfired shots in the sundry hazards.
(Actually, I haven't played golf for many a year, but when I did play, creeks, ponds, lakes, and standing pools of water from recent thunder showers always seemed to have a magnetic effect upon my little dimpled orb.)
As far as stretching goes, I thought that had been roundly debunked as causing more problems than it solves, increasing rather than decreasing injury rates, etc.?
Biking and running, as far as I can see, do virtually nothing to improve swimming performance. In fact, the whole cross training concept is, I believe, excellent for general cardio fitness and strength, but hardly a recipe for improving ones times in the water (with the possible exception of JazzHands, who has his own theories of which I do not want to become ensnarled in debate.)
Put me down in the Laura Val camp.
As for yoga, well, the teacher of the class named me a junior instructor and because of this I am allowed to help young women with their poses.
Why is mud wrestling not on the list?
Adherents of the Rushall approach, not to mention the general principle of muscle specificity of training, would indicate that golf is no better--or worse--for swimming than weight lifting! If you golf like I do, at least you get to go into the water on a frequent basis to retrieve misfired shots in the sundry hazards.
(Actually, I haven't played golf for many a year, but when I did play, creeks, ponds, lakes, and standing pools of water from recent thunder showers always seemed to have a magnetic effect upon my little dimpled orb.)
As far as stretching goes, I thought that had been roundly debunked as causing more problems than it solves, increasing rather than decreasing injury rates, etc.?
Biking and running, as far as I can see, do virtually nothing to improve swimming performance. In fact, the whole cross training concept is, I believe, excellent for general cardio fitness and strength, but hardly a recipe for improving ones times in the water (with the possible exception of JazzHands, who has his own theories of which I do not want to become ensnarled in debate.)
Put me down in the Laura Val camp.
As for yoga, well, the teacher of the class named me a junior instructor and because of this I am allowed to help young women with their poses.
Why is mud wrestling not on the list?
