I know that with weights for swimming you're supposed to do high reps-low weight, but how many reps is enough? Are you supposed to do like 3 sets of 10 or 5 sets of 40? I'm new to the whole weights thing, so any input would be good. Right now I'm doing lat pulls, bench press, bicep and tricep curls.
Thanks a bunch!:groovy:
There has been a fair amount of discussion on this on the collegeswimming.com board over the last year and it seems many NCAA programs are lifting much more weight today than they did a decade ago.
i know when i swam for Penn State, our strength coaches were of the HIT (high intensity training) school of thought. meaning we would lift to failure every single round. even if that meant we were only getting 4 reps the second round of an exercise. this is the same way the football players lifted, but all the exercises were as sport specific as possible. and it hurt. a lot! but i think it worked, cause PSU has won 3 big ten womens' championships in this decade... :D
There has been a fair amount of discussion on this on the collegeswimming.com board over the last year and it seems many NCAA programs are lifting much more weight today than they did a decade ago.
i know when i swam for Penn State, our strength coaches were of the HIT (high intensity training) school of thought. meaning we would lift to failure every single round. even if that meant we were only getting 4 reps the second round of an exercise. this is the same way the football players lifted, but all the exercises were as sport specific as possible. and it hurt. a lot! but i think it worked, cause PSU has won 3 big ten womens' championships in this decade... :D
