So I got the swimming bug again after the World Championships so I decided yesterday to do a swim meet without having swam at all in 12 years. It was more fun than I expected and I swam about as fast as I was when I stopped swimming (at age 17).
What changed since then? (1) I have no cardio (i.e. died on 35-40m of the 50m LCMs I swam) and (2) 40 extra pounds of muscle with not a lot of extra fat.
I have always been of the view that strength/weight training is vastly underutilized in sports in general and am going to put it to the test in swimming.
My training will consist of only technique training, sprints, kick and very very little yardage (like ~1200 yards a WEEK).
I figure that will be enough to get my cardio to where I can sprint a 50 without dying and I figure all you need for a sprint is to be able to go all out for the whole race, with the remaining factors being power and technique which don't require much yardage I don't think.
Anyone ever try it?
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Maybe someone else knows: why hand-grip strength? Easy to measure, good proxy for upper body strength, or other? (I can't access the full article to check.)
Hand-grip only seems important for sprint events; you sprinters need to be out there shaking a lot of people's hands. Politicians must be good candidates to be sprinters.:bolt:
No clue, lat pull down strength or something similar would be much more meaningful and probably much better correlated to performance than hand grip strength.
Maybe someone else knows: why hand-grip strength? Easy to measure, good proxy for upper body strength, or other? (I can't access the full article to check.)
Hand-grip only seems important for sprint events; you sprinters need to be out there shaking a lot of people's hands. Politicians must be good candidates to be sprinters.:bolt:
No clue, lat pull down strength or something similar would be much more meaningful and probably much better correlated to performance than hand grip strength.
