I'm sure many of you are already aware of this article on about.com It reviews a couple of studies that try to explain why swimmers tend to have more body fat than other athletes.
Thought if you weren't aware of the article you might find it interesting.
swimming.about.com/.../offsite.htm
Lainey
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:thhbbb:And the million dollar answer is: Yes, we can have both. Add weight training/ab crunches to your swim training and it should fix this. Swimming by itself probably will not. Plus, adding those two other things or more things will help the swimming.
one of my missions this year is to use the monofin to work my core and see if it hits the abs like crunches can. I may find a way to use it more like an, OMG, Aquaciser, and see what it does.
:thhbbb:And the million dollar answer is: Yes, we can have both. Add weight training/ab crunches to your swim training and it should fix this. Swimming by itself probably will not. Plus, adding those two other things or more things will help the swimming.
one of my missions this year is to use the monofin to work my core and see if it hits the abs like crunches can. I may find a way to use it more like an, OMG, Aquaciser, and see what it does.
