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?
But as hofffam put it, most swimmers probably got their broad chest in their childhood and youth.
Wait, you're 20 and giving up on a big chest?
When I was 20 I was benching 195. When I was 25 I was benching 325 and got stretch marks.
bone structure and chest cavity is largely genetic. Bone density can be improved, but I don't know of a link between swimming and "chest cavity" size. The muscle stacked on top is up to you.
IMO swimming will develop EVERYTHING. Posterior and anterior, upper and lower.
But as hofffam put it, most swimmers probably got their broad chest in their childhood and youth.
Wait, you're 20 and giving up on a big chest?
When I was 20 I was benching 195. When I was 25 I was benching 325 and got stretch marks.
bone structure and chest cavity is largely genetic. Bone density can be improved, but I don't know of a link between swimming and "chest cavity" size. The muscle stacked on top is up to you.
IMO swimming will develop EVERYTHING. Posterior and anterior, upper and lower.
