I've been out of the water for a month, and out of the weight room for 3 months. This was a planned break after a long season. I just got back in the pool last week and things feel about how they should given the circumstances.
My question is; Would jumping back into weights at the same time I'm getting back in the pool be safe? By safe, I mean with respect to reducing the risk of tendonitis/shoulder/etc problems? Should I wait a few weeks to acclimate to the pool before starting a weight routine?
A little about the weights I intend to do. I'm happy with the Lezak weight program for sprinters and am going to do a second time. This program does do a month of endurance lifting prior to any strength or speedwork, so I'm not going to be lifting like gangbusters right off the bat.
I did have shoulder and elbow tendonitis problems before the planned break, but they were not serious and these injuries have not surfaced yet in the pool. I am currently pretty tight from this last week, but not uncomfortable.
I really don't know the accepted thinking on this except for my college experience (i.e everything at once, you sissy), so any thoughts/ opinions are appreciated now that I am older and more wary of injury :cane:.
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Q, Now weren't you the one that told me that you just needed to make sure to get in one pushing exercise, one pulling exercise, one back, and one legs each session?
Sorta. Pulling is back, but in general yes. If you are doing full body, that is all you need. Lots of people do more, but I am not one of them.
Here is my logic. If you do bench press and incline flys, you will only be able to do one or the other really hard. Why do them both in the same workout.
Some people would rather have varying stress (via many different exercises) on the same muscle in one workout, rather than work one exercise to the max.
Which builds strength faster, multiple exercises at submaximal levels or one exercise at max? I think the latter, but there are plenty of strong people doing the former. What I really think is the latter works faster, and I want to get strong as fast as possible to make up for all those sloth years in between the last time I was swimming fast and now.
If you remember back when I gave you that advice, I was trying to convince you that lifting didn't have to be long, grueling and boring.
I still think Lezak's plan, and similar ones, are too long for most people to be able to stick with. I wouldn't have been able to stick with it if it took an hour off the bat and got harder. When I started 5x5, it took like 15 minutes. When something takes 15 minutes, and all you have to do is walk up stairs to do it, it is really hard to justify not doing it.
Jazz does a lot of experimentation. Most of what he posts, I can't argue with. Eventually, you have to experiment. The first experiment a beginner is going to do if finding what keeps them coming back for more, and if that fails, they are done.
When I said that you and Jazz were the ones to ask about ADD, I meant I could not give advice to someone who benefits from a non structured plan. Both you and Jazz don't follow a written plan, and for someone who would be bored with 5x5 or Lezak, either of you might be able to give some guidance. I have my list of things to do and I follow it strictly. You workout consistently, but I don't know how you decide what exercises, how many reps, what weight, etc. I don't know what guides you, so I couldn't advise someone who would benefit from that style.
I will stop calling you ADD if there is a better descriptor for how you come up with your weight program. I don't mean to be derogatory.
Q, Now weren't you the one that told me that you just needed to make sure to get in one pushing exercise, one pulling exercise, one back, and one legs each session?
Sorta. Pulling is back, but in general yes. If you are doing full body, that is all you need. Lots of people do more, but I am not one of them.
Here is my logic. If you do bench press and incline flys, you will only be able to do one or the other really hard. Why do them both in the same workout.
Some people would rather have varying stress (via many different exercises) on the same muscle in one workout, rather than work one exercise to the max.
Which builds strength faster, multiple exercises at submaximal levels or one exercise at max? I think the latter, but there are plenty of strong people doing the former. What I really think is the latter works faster, and I want to get strong as fast as possible to make up for all those sloth years in between the last time I was swimming fast and now.
If you remember back when I gave you that advice, I was trying to convince you that lifting didn't have to be long, grueling and boring.
I still think Lezak's plan, and similar ones, are too long for most people to be able to stick with. I wouldn't have been able to stick with it if it took an hour off the bat and got harder. When I started 5x5, it took like 15 minutes. When something takes 15 minutes, and all you have to do is walk up stairs to do it, it is really hard to justify not doing it.
Jazz does a lot of experimentation. Most of what he posts, I can't argue with. Eventually, you have to experiment. The first experiment a beginner is going to do if finding what keeps them coming back for more, and if that fails, they are done.
When I said that you and Jazz were the ones to ask about ADD, I meant I could not give advice to someone who benefits from a non structured plan. Both you and Jazz don't follow a written plan, and for someone who would be bored with 5x5 or Lezak, either of you might be able to give some guidance. I have my list of things to do and I follow it strictly. You workout consistently, but I don't know how you decide what exercises, how many reps, what weight, etc. I don't know what guides you, so I couldn't advise someone who would benefit from that style.
I will stop calling you ADD if there is a better descriptor for how you come up with your weight program. I don't mean to be derogatory.
