Hi everyone,
I'm trying to get a good cardio/weight lifting routine going here and I need your help with some questions...
What I know, please correct me if I'm wrong...
- Swimming pretty much works out every muscle group
- Yet, freestyle works the arms/shoulders, while *** stroke is more towards working out the chest.
- Swimming tones muscles and doesn't work them as intensely compared to lifting heavy weights.
I've been lifting (exercising upper body) for a while now as well as running on the days I don't lift, but recently I've decided to drop one of my running days in exchange for swimming. Yet, swimming would mean I'd be working my arms out possibly two days in a row if I decided to swim and then lift the next day, compared to my current routine in which I work out my upper body and then legs (running) the next day. So therefore, I was wondering, do muscles technically need need 48 hours of rest after swimming to recover properly or is the muscle gain minor just like its OK to run nearly everyday? Also, If say I were to decide to swim on Monday and Wednesday, could I lift heavily in between those days on Tuesday without worries or would my muscles need more time to rest? Bottom line, I don't really want to decrease the amount of days I weight lift in order to throw in a day of swimming, but if I have to then I will. So if I work out my arms intensely by lifting weights, then can I swim intensely the next day and still gain muscle mass under the standards that one needs 48 hours of rest to completely recover that muscle group?
Also, what about running and swimming? Theres obviously, people out there that swim or run nearly everyday, so I'm guessing the 48 hour rule of rest/recovery doesn't really apply to those sports because the muscle gain isn't as intense as lifting weights?
Here is my routine that I have made so far, does anyone think I am not getting proper muscle rest?:
Sunday: run
Monday: lift
Tuesday: swim
Wednesday: lift
Thursday: run
Friday: lift
Saturday: rest
- Thanks!
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Coach T--Mainly I do freestyle and breaststroke, with the occasional sidestroke if I need to do something easier for me without resting. For the workouts that I do, I actually changed it up a bit, I guess in the end its really hard to find a perfect routine, but either way I'm planning on just working out my upper body twice a week and my legs in between those two upper body days (to give them rest). So pretty much freestyle and breastroke would be the best? I have been having a little trouble with my rotary cuff lately, so I'm thinking incorporating backstroke would help me out a lot with those shoulders.
Now where to get the motivation from? We'll you asked how old I was, I'm 18, but age really doesn't matter. I think anything cardio (running, swimming, biking) is all mental. If you tell your arms and legs to keep moving then chances are there not going to let you down, hah. Lifting on the other hand, thats obviously all physical (except when your trying to move onto heavier weights) because your body can only lift so much since our muscles aren't even meant to undergo such extreme lifting, I mean when we lift we are in fact ripping apart our tissue in our bodies in order to make it bigger.
Aztimm--That crazy. For the past 2 months I've been working out 6 days a week (4 lift/3 cardio) but recently just dropped it to 3 lift/3 cardio because I just wasn't giving my muscles enough rest from lifting.
>>But what your doing (swimming in the morning and lifting at night) from what I heard and read is that is the best way to lose weight, what I'm saying is, spacing your cardio into for example a 30 min. morning swim and then a 30 min. night swim rather than doing a single 1 hour swim<'t know.
Coach T--Mainly I do freestyle and breaststroke, with the occasional sidestroke if I need to do something easier for me without resting. For the workouts that I do, I actually changed it up a bit, I guess in the end its really hard to find a perfect routine, but either way I'm planning on just working out my upper body twice a week and my legs in between those two upper body days (to give them rest). So pretty much freestyle and breastroke would be the best? I have been having a little trouble with my rotary cuff lately, so I'm thinking incorporating backstroke would help me out a lot with those shoulders.
Now where to get the motivation from? We'll you asked how old I was, I'm 18, but age really doesn't matter. I think anything cardio (running, swimming, biking) is all mental. If you tell your arms and legs to keep moving then chances are there not going to let you down, hah. Lifting on the other hand, thats obviously all physical (except when your trying to move onto heavier weights) because your body can only lift so much since our muscles aren't even meant to undergo such extreme lifting, I mean when we lift we are in fact ripping apart our tissue in our bodies in order to make it bigger.
Aztimm--That crazy. For the past 2 months I've been working out 6 days a week (4 lift/3 cardio) but recently just dropped it to 3 lift/3 cardio because I just wasn't giving my muscles enough rest from lifting.
>>But what your doing (swimming in the morning and lifting at night) from what I heard and read is that is the best way to lose weight, what I'm saying is, spacing your cardio into for example a 30 min. morning swim and then a 30 min. night swim rather than doing a single 1 hour swim<'t know.
