Though my form still needs a lot of work, I am considering starting strength training in the near future, since I have read about how it can help swimming speed, form, etc.
However, I am still struggling with the idea of why strength training is needed. Lets assume that lifting a certain weight in a certain way improves a core muscle, which will help steady my posture (?).
Now assuming I don't weight lift, but instead try to hold the proper posture (high elbow, etc.) for a long period of time, and gradually increase the time I do that over weeks and months, won't those muscle(s) automatically improve?
It seems to me that intuitively the proper muscles would gradually get stronger in order to adjust to the frequent usage - that way the exact muscles I need would get stronger, instead of having to train a large array of muscles that have a relation to swimming.
What am I missing?
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However, I am willing to wager a small amount that if you took 100 of our fellow forum readers who have not done any crunches in the past month, and had them get on the floor and crunch away out of the blue as many times as they could before running out of steam, 90 percent plus of said experiment lab animals would have an incredibly hard time getting out of bed in the next couple days.
Eh? You mean because of DOMS? DOMS isn't really an injury. It's just some temporary pain and minor weakness.
Also, why aren't you doing pull-ups?
However, I am willing to wager a small amount that if you took 100 of our fellow forum readers who have not done any crunches in the past month, and had them get on the floor and crunch away out of the blue as many times as they could before running out of steam, 90 percent plus of said experiment lab animals would have an incredibly hard time getting out of bed in the next couple days.
Eh? You mean because of DOMS? DOMS isn't really an injury. It's just some temporary pain and minor weakness.
Also, why aren't you doing pull-ups?
