Swimming experts,
I recently started strength training to complement my 3-4x/week swimming routine. I'm trying to lose weight, I am currently 205 and want to drop 20lbs. I'm not very interested in gaining a lot of muscle, but rather, I want to gain muscular endurance to improve my strokes (freestyle and ***) and more efficiently burn fat in the water. I swim about 3000-3500 yds per workout, in sets of alternating 200yds, 150yds, 100yds, 50yds, etc....and pyramids and IM's here and there.
My question is, how should I go about figuring out how many reps/sets to do for my situation? I just started a 3x/week (every other day) regimen of legs, chest, shoulders, lats, abs, etc, and the recommendation I found was to do 2-3 sets of 15-20 reps per exercise. I thought I heard somewhere that for swimming strength training, you want to do lots of reps, not too many sets, and keep the weight down.
Any help would be appreciated! I'm sure either way I'll get faster and
stronger in the water, but like I said, I don't want to add too much muscle
mass if I can stay away from it!
Matt
