Just wondering.

In my humble opinion weight training is no real factor in swimming (fast).

It's technique, technique and technique.

When you visit swim-meets in the Masters series, you often see that older overweight swimmers with a
fabulous technique easily beat younger and perfectly shaped opponents.

And for your questions regarding timing: join a club. Most clubs will let you train for free the
first two or three trainings to give you an idea.

With greetings,

Henri Michon, Maastricht, The Netherlands.

Dry land in general is going to be helpful at least for your overall physical conditioning. For
example, your bones will benefit from doing something in a gravity environement (weight training,
jumping rope...). Weight training is actually an important component to a well-rounded program.
However, how much it helps with speed in the water, I don't know.

I swim at Purdue every morning--come join us!

Marianne

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Hi

I swam in high school, but havent done much here at Purdue. Had some basic questions:

1. Is weight training a really big factor ?

2. What sort of timing should someone have for competitive swimming?

Arjun

I think weightlifting can help get over the hump esp. in college and what do you mean by timing?

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Quoted message said:

Hi

I swam in high school, but havent done much here at Purdue. Had some basic questions:

1. Is weight training a really big factor ?

2. What sort of timing should someone have for competitive swimming?

Arjun

Ben Michon said:

In my humble opinion weight training is no real factor in swimming (fast).

It's technique, technique and technique.

When you visit swim-meets in the Masters series, you often see that older overweight swimmers with
a fabulous technique easily beat younger and perfectly shaped opponents.

However, the old basketball maxim still applies: A good big man is better than a good little man.
If the overweight masters with fabulous technique lost weight and increased strength, their times
would improve.

martin

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Martin wrote:

" If the overweight masters with fabulous technique lost weight and increased strength, their times
would improve."

Well Martin, for this we have a saying in Dutch: "saying/stating the obvious" ;-)

Henri Michon, Maastricht, the Netherlands.