Best weight room exercises for swimming

That's interesting. To be honest, I never really thought about lifting over my head; we were told not to do it, back when we lifted weights with the swim team. (I was 14-16, and someone told me it stunted growth. Is that true?) Since most of my weight training knowledge comes from that, I generally just avoided lifting over my head, because I wasn't sure how to do it properly. Although, now that I think about it, a personal trainer (I got two free sessions when I joined a gym last year) had me do something similar to #2, but with a very light bar. Not sure about the "growth stunting," I would guess that would be related to premature fusing of bones (which can come from anabolic steroid use during adolescence) but haven't heard of it resulting from overhead lifting. We lifted weights on my high school swim team starting as freshmen, and I remember doing seated shoulder presses. To the best of my knowledge, no stunted growth (but maybe I should be 6' 4" instead of 5' 10"). I like the overhead lifting movements because they do recruit more core and stabilizer muscles, and you don't have to use as much weight. But, like anything involving agility and weight, start out slow, methodical, and light, then work your way up. Here's the bump thing instead of the banana :bump:

That's interesting. To be honest, I never really thought about lifting over my head; we were told not to do it, back when we lifted weights with the swim team. (I was 14-16, and someone told me it stunted growth. Is that true?) Since most of my weight training knowledge comes from that, I generally just avoided lifting over my head, because I wasn't sure how to do it properly. Although, now that I think about it, a personal trainer (I got two free sessions when I joined a gym last year) had me do something similar to #2, but with a very light bar. Not sure about the "growth stunting," I would guess that would be related to premature fusing of bones (which can come from anabolic steroid use during adolescence) but haven't heard of it resulting from overhead lifting. We lifted weights on my high school swim team starting as freshmen, and I remember doing seated shoulder presses. To the best of my knowledge, no stunted growth (but maybe I should be 6' 4" instead of 5' 10"). I like the overhead lifting movements because they do recruit more core and stabilizer muscles, and you don't have to use as much weight. But, like anything involving agility and weight, start out slow, methodical, and light, then work your way up. Here's the bump thing instead of the banana :bump: