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?
Who ARE you people with all this time?!
Take a look through my blog and you'll see how I squeeze in the time. Over the summer, I got up some mornings before 4am to get running over with before the heat of the day. I was rotating my swimming between morning and evenings, whichever fit best that day.
I'm currently on vacation (another 8 days or so) and my working out so far has been 1 swim in the past week. Of course I've been getting in tons of walking, on average 5 miles a day. Hopefully as I move to explore a warmer area I'll get in a run or 2.
Who ARE you people with all this time?!
Take a look through my blog and you'll see how I squeeze in the time. Over the summer, I got up some mornings before 4am to get running over with before the heat of the day. I was rotating my swimming between morning and evenings, whichever fit best that day.
I'm currently on vacation (another 8 days or so) and my working out so far has been 1 swim in the past week. Of course I've been getting in tons of walking, on average 5 miles a day. Hopefully as I move to explore a warmer area I'll get in a run or 2.
