Best weight room exercises for swimming

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! Thanks Fortress. Off to Google again! Preacher curls, machine hammers, superman streamlines and stability balls to name but a few! A bosu looks like a ball that has been cut in half and a base attached. Is that what it is? All these names are so intimidating! I'll start with the reverse curls. That made sense to me right away and I even have two 5kg dumbells at home. They are still brand spanking new. Hardly ever been used. To be honest I don't like any form of dryland training. I mean the static, repetitive, weightlifting type. (I like to ride a bike and I used to run a lot). In fact I have never been into the weights room of the gym I have joined, except for cursory glance from the door on the day that I joined. I have only ever used the pool and the hot tub area. Ande has convinced me that I should be doing weight training though so I am going to have to, reluctantly, drag myself into it. It is such a minefield I don't know where to start. I am slowly going through the relevant threads at the moment trying to work out a programme for myself. I have already been researching for a week and am no closer to starting though. I fear I am stalling again! 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! Thanks Fortress. Off to Google again! Preacher curls, machine hammers, superman streamlines and stability balls to name but a few! A bosu looks like a ball that has been cut in half and a base attached. Is that what it is? All these names are so intimidating! I'll start with the reverse curls. That made sense to me right away and I even have two 5kg dumbells at home. They are still brand spanking new. Hardly ever been used. To be honest I don't like any form of dryland training. I mean the static, repetitive, weightlifting type. (I like to ride a bike and I used to run a lot). In fact I have never been into the weights room of the gym I have joined, except for cursory glance from the door on the day that I joined. I have only ever used the pool and the hot tub area. Ande has convinced me that I should be doing weight training though so I am going to have to, reluctantly, drag myself into it. It is such a minefield I don't know where to start. I am slowly going through the relevant threads at the moment trying to work out a programme for myself. I have already been researching for a week and am no closer to starting though. I fear I am stalling again! Syd