I've been back in the pool for a few months now and am enjoying the workouts posted by various coaches. I was wondering about when to bring in some dry land work and also if weight/strength training should also be added to the mix and what types of work should be done. I've always lived by the thought that to improve in the pool one should work in the pool, but I know that can only get you so far. Thanks
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The young swimmers of today are not as active as we were so they need the things that we did naturaly. In my youth I rode my bike or ran to the pool, hikes, baseball tag hide and go seek and all the things we did before TV.
First thing we should do to get fit - get ride of TV, Computers, Cars, and stop living the easy life - but do we want to?
When I was a kid my mother gave us money to take the street car, we ran to the pool racing the street car, used the money for french fries or milkshakes instead.
Instead of getting a ride to the beach we took our bicyles, somtimes 11 miles there and 11 miles back.
Sundays where picknic days we would rent either a row boat or a cannoe and go to Dundas Ontario 7 miles from where we rented the boats have our picnic and head back home.
In the winter Ice skating played hockey even though I was the worst skater in the world.
If we were not sleeping we had activity.
The young swimmers of today are not as active as we were so they need the things that we did naturaly. In my youth I rode my bike or ran to the pool, hikes, baseball tag hide and go seek and all the things we did before TV.
First thing we should do to get fit - get ride of TV, Computers, Cars, and stop living the easy life - but do we want to?
When I was a kid my mother gave us money to take the street car, we ran to the pool racing the street car, used the money for french fries or milkshakes instead.
Instead of getting a ride to the beach we took our bicyles, somtimes 11 miles there and 11 miles back.
Sundays where picknic days we would rent either a row boat or a cannoe and go to Dundas Ontario 7 miles from where we rented the boats have our picnic and head back home.
In the winter Ice skating played hockey even though I was the worst skater in the world.
If we were not sleeping we had activity.
