Sore Lats

is that long course meters or short course for your lats lat pull and pull ups will strengthen them what you do in the water is what's most important even though the 1,500 m free is the longest race in a pool it only takes 15 to 20 minutes work on speed, aerobic conditioning and correct splitting you've made dramatic improvements but you've got room for more ande Originally posted by Carson Hey All, I am new here, so I apologize in advance if this is the wrong place to post this question. I started swimming a 3 years ago and have made (from what people are telling me) huge improvements. When I first started swimming I was barley able to hold 2min/100m (Ya, I am from Canada). Now, 3 years later, have brought my 1500m time down to 19:43 (1:18/100m). When I do a 1500m time trial I always end up finishing with extremely sore lats. I think if I could strengthen my lats I would be able to swim faster. I was wondering if weight workouts would help this, and are lat pull-downs best? Thanks :)

is that long course meters or short course for your lats lat pull and pull ups will strengthen them what you do in the water is what's most important even though the 1,500 m free is the longest race in a pool it only takes 15 to 20 minutes work on speed, aerobic conditioning and correct splitting you've made dramatic improvements but you've got room for more ande Originally posted by Carson Hey All, I am new here, so I apologize in advance if this is the wrong place to post this question. I started swimming a 3 years ago and have made (from what people are telling me) huge improvements. When I first started swimming I was barley able to hold 2min/100m (Ya, I am from Canada). Now, 3 years later, have brought my 1500m time down to 19:43 (1:18/100m). When I do a 1500m time trial I always end up finishing with extremely sore lats. I think if I could strengthen my lats I would be able to swim faster. I was wondering if weight workouts would help this, and are lat pull-downs best? Thanks :)