Just wondering how other folks here balance gym and pool workouts.
Now that I'm back in the pool I'm adjusting my lifting quite a bit to complement the swimming.
Used to, I'd alternate upper/lower body on alternate days, with one day a week off.
Now that I'm in the pool, I feel like I'm not giving my muscles enough rest time, since a swim is essentially a whole-body resistance set.
So far, I've been swimming Mon/Wed/Fri, and lifting Tue (upper), Thu (lower), and Sat (core). As I get better swim-conditioned, I plan to re-adjust, probably with more pool time.
Any thoughts, tips, experience?
This is something I am working on figuring out as well. My schedule is such that it is hard to have a consistent schedule week after week after week but occassionally it happens and I'm so happy when it does. I am currently trying to put weights back into my routine. I think you first have to look at any limitations you have schedule-wise. For instance, I have dance classes on wednesday nights and soon thursdays as well. Thursday mornings I feel completely beaten up from the wednesday classes and exhausted because we are there until 10PM or later. I've been swimming thursday nights but my body is clearly not recovered from the night before, I am tired and I usually get leg cramps. When dance starts on thursdays too I'll have to find a different day.
I swim at least once a week and I have made an effort to make it twice a week. I would love to add a third day and I am trying to figure out how to make that work. Right now thursday, friday and saturday are the days I can swim but it seems I can never do all three in one week because other things come up. I have also had to face the fact that as much as I would like to and as much as I am making an effort to, I may never make it to a morning workout, which leaves after work and weekends.
I have a spinning class I love on mondays but I am thinking of sacrificing it to make monday another swim day, I can spin on tuesday and do weights sunday and tuesday. I'm going to try to play around with that schedule and see how it affects my wednesday nights since I usually need to be well rested in order to do well and actually make it through the entire night.
This is something I am working on figuring out as well. My schedule is such that it is hard to have a consistent schedule week after week after week but occassionally it happens and I'm so happy when it does. I am currently trying to put weights back into my routine. I think you first have to look at any limitations you have schedule-wise. For instance, I have dance classes on wednesday nights and soon thursdays as well. Thursday mornings I feel completely beaten up from the wednesday classes and exhausted because we are there until 10PM or later. I've been swimming thursday nights but my body is clearly not recovered from the night before, I am tired and I usually get leg cramps. When dance starts on thursdays too I'll have to find a different day.
I swim at least once a week and I have made an effort to make it twice a week. I would love to add a third day and I am trying to figure out how to make that work. Right now thursday, friday and saturday are the days I can swim but it seems I can never do all three in one week because other things come up. I have also had to face the fact that as much as I would like to and as much as I am making an effort to, I may never make it to a morning workout, which leaves after work and weekends.
I have a spinning class I love on mondays but I am thinking of sacrificing it to make monday another swim day, I can spin on tuesday and do weights sunday and tuesday. I'm going to try to play around with that schedule and see how it affects my wednesday nights since I usually need to be well rested in order to do well and actually make it through the entire night.
