Best weight room exercises for swimming

Yesterday afternoon during practice I was practicing an early catch and high elbow position while doing 50m free sprints and it struck me that my forearms were starting to ache. Firstly is my technique good that this is happening, and secondly, if it is good then surely I should be doing exercises to build up my forearms for strong sprinting. Apologies if this is an extremely elementary question! Syd Probably need your forearms for EVF on free and for breaststroke as Inklaire notes. If you want to strengthen your forearms, do some reverse curls, palms up/palms down wrist curls with handweights, preacher curl on the machine or hammers. I don't do a lot of these myself, although I will do alternating hammers on a bosu. In fact, I do many handweight exercises on the bosu because then you are simultaneously working the core and legs. Doing superman streamlines on the bosu is a great exercise too. Anyone who can do superman streamlines on stability balls is a real animal!

Yesterday afternoon during practice I was practicing an early catch and high elbow position while doing 50m free sprints and it struck me that my forearms were starting to ache. Firstly is my technique good that this is happening, and secondly, if it is good then surely I should be doing exercises to build up my forearms for strong sprinting. Apologies if this is an extremely elementary question! Syd Probably need your forearms for EVF on free and for breaststroke as Inklaire notes. If you want to strengthen your forearms, do some reverse curls, palms up/palms down wrist curls with handweights, preacher curl on the machine or hammers. I don't do a lot of these myself, although I will do alternating hammers on a bosu. In fact, I do many handweight exercises on the bosu because then you are simultaneously working the core and legs. Doing superman streamlines on the bosu is a great exercise too. Anyone who can do superman streamlines on stability balls is a real animal!