Blog Talk
Blog Talk is a thread to recoginize, discuss, share, stuff happening in the USMS blogs, here on the general forums. Please point out certain sets, certain swims, & meet performances. Rather than have the blogs languish in obscurity.
Here's a few blogs if you're interested in:
sprinting on low yardage check out The Jazz Hands Brass Band's Fast-Twitch Freak-Out by Jazz Hands
a fast chatty female who often trains alone there's the
The FAF AFAP Digest by The Fortress
a middle distance workhorse, Masters's swimming mag's cover boy, who has a true work ethic and amazing swims in workout there's
Chris' training journal and thoughts by Chris Stevenson
an excellent mid distance traveling exec there's
Of Swimming Bondage by pwbrundage
looks like there's 59 blogs
let's talk about em
start one of your own
keep adding threads, it's a handy resourse where you can look back at previous workouts.
there's the list
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I would like to invite anyone interested in the relationship between strength training and swimming performance to check out my vlog on this topic.
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Though you don't always get this sense from reading the boosters of weight lifting, there is a lot of controversy in the research community about how much, if any, good weight lifting does in terms of improving swimming speed and/or endurance.
I have posted a couple of the abstracts I was able to find from Medline and Google Scholar searches, and I was unable to find anything that suggests weight lifting/resistance training helps improve swimming performance.
I recently had an opportunity to interview two great masters swimmers who are also famous exercise physiology researchers: Dr. David Costill and Dr. Joel Stager. To my surprise, both of them suggested that the benefits of weight training are dubious for swimming speed. (I didn't ask them about other possibilities, like injury prevention and countering sarcopenia of aging.)
In any event, I invite you all to check it out and to post any links to the research literature you know of in the comments section, and I will then add these in future blogs on this topic.
Final note: I am interested in this topic because I think I am much like many within our ranks: mightily impressed by Leslie The Fortress, Chris Stevenson, Jazz Hands, and others who lift extensively and often as part of their training. I've recently made tentative inroads to trying this myself. But I do want to know if it's likely to help my swimming or just delay frailty in old age (not a bad reason to do it, of course, but not the same motivation as, say, dropping a half second in the 50.)
I would like to invite anyone interested in the relationship between strength training and swimming performance to check out my vlog on this topic.
forums.usms.org/blog.php
Though you don't always get this sense from reading the boosters of weight lifting, there is a lot of controversy in the research community about how much, if any, good weight lifting does in terms of improving swimming speed and/or endurance.
I have posted a couple of the abstracts I was able to find from Medline and Google Scholar searches, and I was unable to find anything that suggests weight lifting/resistance training helps improve swimming performance.
I recently had an opportunity to interview two great masters swimmers who are also famous exercise physiology researchers: Dr. David Costill and Dr. Joel Stager. To my surprise, both of them suggested that the benefits of weight training are dubious for swimming speed. (I didn't ask them about other possibilities, like injury prevention and countering sarcopenia of aging.)
In any event, I invite you all to check it out and to post any links to the research literature you know of in the comments section, and I will then add these in future blogs on this topic.
Final note: I am interested in this topic because I think I am much like many within our ranks: mightily impressed by Leslie The Fortress, Chris Stevenson, Jazz Hands, and others who lift extensively and often as part of their training. I've recently made tentative inroads to trying this myself. But I do want to know if it's likely to help my swimming or just delay frailty in old age (not a bad reason to do it, of course, but not the same motivation as, say, dropping a half second in the 50.)
