Weight Training For Swimmers

Do you use weight training for swimmers?

If you do then great! If not then we'd like to show you how it can be really useful for you as a swimmer and how you can utilize it to improve your ability.

If you've ever seen the swimmers at the Olympics then you might have noticed that the majority of both the men and women have a very good upper body build..

This is because many of the top athletes are using weight training to maximise lower and upper body strength and endurance.

So what can it be used for?

Well, for short races such as the 50m or 100m freestyle, weight training for swimmers is used to build explosive power in order to swim quickly and is mainly geared towards providing short bursts of strength and power.

For the long distance endurance races such as the 1500m it's used to improve muscular endurance which is necessary to allow sustained swimming paces for sustained amounts of time without succumbing to fatigue.

Take a look at the following sample swimming weight training programs. The first is designed for short distance swimming and the second program is for long distance endurance swimming.