Weight Training

Dominick, I agree totally on age. Men are full of Testosterone and grow muscle mass easily, up until the middle to late thirties. After that it is not produced as easily and tapers off. Additionally other hormones that rebuild cell structure tapers off in production as we age. At age 35 I could do an hour of maximun effort weight workout every other day, and recover fully. By 45 I had to go to every third day, my body just could not recover in 48 hours. But I disagree with you on swimming the same day as weights. Come on 2500 meters is nothing, even after a hard weight workout. There is nothing like a swim workout of 3500 to 4000 yards (about an hour) to pump out the muscles after a hard weight day. There are other ways to do the same as swimming after weights, all expensive. Oxygen therapy followed by 10-15 minutes in a jacussi, followed by an hour of quality massage ($90)will help recovery from the weights almost as much as a swim workout. It takes over 1500 meters just to warmup properly. Do you really think elite swimmers arround the world do nothing else the day of a weight workout? Every day they do weights, they swim. And some days they swim twice, after a weight workout. If they don't, someone else in the world will and will be gaining an advantage. And they hit the weights much harder than most of us swimmers. If you can't swim after doing weights, it is a mental thing and not physical.:p Much in life is mental blockage. For years I could not go above 500 pounds on the inclined squat machine (leg press), which simulates the starting block and pushoffs perfectly. Then one day a little lady a the gym challenged my to compete with this guy much bigger than me, with huge thighs of STEEL. We did not stop that day untill we got to 30 reps at 920 pounds. And it did not hurt the next day. The barrier was all in my mind. Since then I have gone to 1125 pounds on this machine. Coach Wayne McCauley ASCA Level 5

Dominick, I agree totally on age. Men are full of Testosterone and grow muscle mass easily, up until the middle to late thirties. After that it is not produced as easily and tapers off. Additionally other hormones that rebuild cell structure tapers off in production as we age. At age 35 I could do an hour of maximun effort weight workout every other day, and recover fully. By 45 I had to go to every third day, my body just could not recover in 48 hours. But I disagree with you on swimming the same day as weights. Come on 2500 meters is nothing, even after a hard weight workout. There is nothing like a swim workout of 3500 to 4000 yards (about an hour) to pump out the muscles after a hard weight day. There are other ways to do the same as swimming after weights, all expensive. Oxygen therapy followed by 10-15 minutes in a jacussi, followed by an hour of quality massage ($90)will help recovery from the weights almost as much as a swim workout. It takes over 1500 meters just to warmup properly. Do you really think elite swimmers arround the world do nothing else the day of a weight workout? Every day they do weights, they swim. And some days they swim twice, after a weight workout. If they don't, someone else in the world will and will be gaining an advantage. And they hit the weights much harder than most of us swimmers. If you can't swim after doing weights, it is a mental thing and not physical.:p Much in life is mental blockage. For years I could not go above 500 pounds on the inclined squat machine (leg press), which simulates the starting block and pushoffs perfectly. Then one day a little lady a the gym challenged my to compete with this guy much bigger than me, with huge thighs of STEEL. We did not stop that day untill we got to 30 reps at 920 pounds. And it did not hurt the next day. The barrier was all in my mind. Since then I have gone to 1125 pounds on this machine. Coach Wayne McCauley ASCA Level 5