Hello folks,
I'm 20 years old and have been swimming occasionally in the last years -- sometimes twice a week, sometimes not even one time in months.
Last week I've enlisted in a local swimming club. I'm going to train three times a week, one time for 1 1/2 hours, the other ones for one hour. The emphasis of our training is put on front crawl. Besides this I'm doing martial arts.
Due to the fact that I've done sports regularly for years, I consider myself as being in good form. So the primary cause for me to go swimming is simply because I like being in water.
Do you think that swimming helps in increasing the chest's size?
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If the goal is to increase the size of the chest cavity (skeleton) - it is probably too late. The broad, deep chest of many swimmers is probably developed during the growth years when the bones are still growing.
If the goal is to develop larger chest muscles ("pecs") then swimming can probably help. But swimming rarely develops overtly muscular pecs. Benjamin Wilman-Tobriner has a cut, developed chest. Phelps is fairly typical of elite swimmers.
Some of a swimmer's chest size is probably really due to large lats (middle and upper back).
Note I am not a doctor nor an expert in physiology.
If the goal is to increase the size of the chest cavity (skeleton) - it is probably too late. The broad, deep chest of many swimmers is probably developed during the growth years when the bones are still growing.
If the goal is to develop larger chest muscles ("pecs") then swimming can probably help. But swimming rarely develops overtly muscular pecs. Benjamin Wilman-Tobriner has a cut, developed chest. Phelps is fairly typical of elite swimmers.
Some of a swimmer's chest size is probably really due to large lats (middle and upper back).
Note I am not a doctor nor an expert in physiology.
