What's are your favorite crosstraining activities? Do you like it for general overall fitness or because it specifically benefits your swimming? Explain.
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Tom,
Boxing is probably one of the best cross-training for swimming. Cross-training is a very important part of swimming, esp for sprinters. The goal is to be a very capable ATHLETE, not necessarily swim the most yardage. Hand quickness, agility, flexibilty, core strength. If you have those, you can swim 20K a week working on feeling the water, lung capactiy, technique and speed and most likely get away with it. Of course, this is assuming you have had some sort of athletic base in your past. Just look Stefan Nystrand - swam the 2nd fastest 100 Free couple months ago - 47.91. How about Ed Moses? A natural athlete setting world records only after two years of swimming. I think people are starting to catch on!
Tom,
Boxing is probably one of the best cross-training for swimming. Cross-training is a very important part of swimming, esp for sprinters. The goal is to be a very capable ATHLETE, not necessarily swim the most yardage. Hand quickness, agility, flexibilty, core strength. If you have those, you can swim 20K a week working on feeling the water, lung capactiy, technique and speed and most likely get away with it. Of course, this is assuming you have had some sort of athletic base in your past. Just look Stefan Nystrand - swam the 2nd fastest 100 Free couple months ago - 47.91. How about Ed Moses? A natural athlete setting world records only after two years of swimming. I think people are starting to catch on!
