What are some exercises to keep me is shape for swimming?

Question

I am in a swim class at summer school and the teacher who happens to be the coach wants me to tryout for the team in the fall. Since summer school is ending, i need some excersises that i can do OUT of the water to keep up my stamina for swim season(working on the legs, arms, and stomach). Thanks for answering!

Answer 1

There is no shortage of "dry land" exercises that are helpful for swimmers. Recently, Dara Torres described the land-exercise regiment that she goes through:

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/olympics/3...

"Torres' regimen includes lots of resistance training -- repetitive exercises using external force to push against muscles to make them stronger and increase their endurance.

". . . weight machines, free weights and the type of simple floor exercises Torres does several times weekly: Lying on her back, she lifts and stretches each leg while also pushing against it with her arm.

"These exercises also work to strengthen "core" muscles in the abdomen and back, which gives arms and legs "a better platform to work from," said Carl Foster, former president of the American College of Sports Medicine."

This information is helpful for building up the strength for swimming. But your question asked also about stamina, which is something else. Mostly, you would be concerned with conditioning, and in that case any aerobic excercise would be helpful. Jogging, if your legs can take it. Or, cycling. Or even the Wii Fit step exercises.

Answer 2

check out the web.

swimmers workout !

Answer 3

Try doing some kind of aerobics, like pilates.  You can try finding a dvd called pilates for dummies, you can find it online or at a store like barnes & noble.  Well i hope this helped you!

Answer 4

Why can't you swim to stay in shape for swimming?

Answer 5

Well first of all, weight training.

Pilates is excellent cuz it will build muscle, but won't make you gain as much weight from them, which is good for in the matter

Do anything that envolves endurance and speed like running. A good thing to do is jog for about 5 minutes then pick up and sprint for as long as you can (don't push yourself to hard) before you are really tired (2-5 minutes is fine but if you can do more without needing to stop its fine). As fast and as long as you can, still being able to keep the same pace, once ur pace slows done, its time to stop. The reason to not go to hard, after sprinting, dont stop- jog for another 5 minutes. Do this 2 or 3 more times in a row each day. Everyday, try sprinting a little longer without getting tired- ull c improvement.

also step aerobics is good

and do breathing excercises like they do for music. Like in for 5 seconds out for 15 and stuff like that. hope that helps! :-)

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