Weight Training

Dominick I just have to ask, what are you doing in the gym for two hours? I have never spent over an hour and that is for upper and lower body. I do max reps, usually 12-14 on Nautilus machines at max pounds. I fill in with inclined leg press and other machines in the free weight room. But I try to go from exercise to execise in less than one minute. That extra hour in the gym to me is wasting an hour in my life I will never get back. If there are not a bunch of pansies sitting in machines between their pitiful multi-set low weight workouts, I can get in the gym and be done in 25 minutes! No messing arround, no wiping off sweat, just hard work. I am 55 now, close to 210, I need to loose a least 15 pounds to swim better. Mind you I do 2500 meters none stop free style all the way That is part of the problem. Sounds like you coach your self and you always swim without stopping. Also sounds like you have muscle beach type muscles and not swimming muscles. You will get much faster doing masters type workouts that add variety and interval training to your swimming. One of the forums here has workouts, you can print them out and swim them yourself. But you will never reach full potential as a swimmer without a real coach. Connie has a great coach who cares very much about his swimmers. But for her keeping swimming and making some small improvements in muscle strength will help her swimming.

Dominick I just have to ask, what are you doing in the gym for two hours? I have never spent over an hour and that is for upper and lower body. I do max reps, usually 12-14 on Nautilus machines at max pounds. I fill in with inclined leg press and other machines in the free weight room. But I try to go from exercise to execise in less than one minute. That extra hour in the gym to me is wasting an hour in my life I will never get back. If there are not a bunch of pansies sitting in machines between their pitiful multi-set low weight workouts, I can get in the gym and be done in 25 minutes! No messing arround, no wiping off sweat, just hard work. I am 55 now, close to 210, I need to loose a least 15 pounds to swim better. Mind you I do 2500 meters none stop free style all the way That is part of the problem. Sounds like you coach your self and you always swim without stopping. Also sounds like you have muscle beach type muscles and not swimming muscles. You will get much faster doing masters type workouts that add variety and interval training to your swimming. One of the forums here has workouts, you can print them out and swim them yourself. But you will never reach full potential as a swimmer without a real coach. Connie has a great coach who cares very much about his swimmers. But for her keeping swimming and making some small improvements in muscle strength will help her swimming.