I just ordered and received my "Yoga for Swimmers" DVD. I have watched it a few times and attempted many of the poses....it is harder than I thought and I'm way less flexible than I thought.Can anyone out there attest to the benefits of yoga when it comes to swimming? I'm trying to decide whether to do a consistent weight lifting routine or if I should practice yoga - I don't have time for both right now.
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I may sound terribly unenlightened, but... isn't swimming lifting weights? Grabbing chunks of water and dragging them underneath you... displacing large quantities of water with your legs... sounds like weight lifting to me.
No. You displace something during any activity, air, water, iron, etc so that isn't a great way to think about it.
The goal of lifting weights and swimming are different but hopefully lifting weights compliments your swimming. If the break swimming and lifting into two comparable components, mass and velocity, swimming you are concerned with increasing velocity with constant mass (your body) and lifting you are concerned with increasing mass (the weights) with constant velocity (rep speed). Swimming faster is the key, not gaining weight while swimming the same speed. Inversely, lifting more mass is the key since lifting 10lbs really really fast is not the same thing as lifting 400lbs really really slow.
I may sound terribly unenlightened, but... isn't swimming lifting weights? Grabbing chunks of water and dragging them underneath you... displacing large quantities of water with your legs... sounds like weight lifting to me.
No. You displace something during any activity, air, water, iron, etc so that isn't a great way to think about it.
The goal of lifting weights and swimming are different but hopefully lifting weights compliments your swimming. If the break swimming and lifting into two comparable components, mass and velocity, swimming you are concerned with increasing velocity with constant mass (your body) and lifting you are concerned with increasing mass (the weights) with constant velocity (rep speed). Swimming faster is the key, not gaining weight while swimming the same speed. Inversely, lifting more mass is the key since lifting 10lbs really really fast is not the same thing as lifting 400lbs really really slow.
