Would you like to swim faster but you already spend lots of time in the water? Well, you could try training OUT of the water too! Adding “dryland” training to your sessions in the water will allow you to increase the size of your “engine”, build up your muscles, and improve the flexibility and mobility of your joints.
Take note: as well as, not instead of!
If you have to choose between swim training and fitness training, always choose swimming. Why? Try and imagine bodybuilder, who is so strong he can lift really heavyweights, whatever the exercise. Do you think he will also be an extremely fast swimmer? Obviously not!
The reason for this is that it is not just a matter of being extremely strong but, above all, of how this strength is applied in the water. Knowing how to apply this strength and power effectively means having a good swim technique, which is why less muscular or less powerful swimmers can, in any case, swim extremely fast.
Nevertheless, if you can afford to devote time to training out of the water, it will increase your strength, speed, endurance and even your mobility.
Now we know why, let’s see how.
There are basically two methods for two types of swimmers:
- people who swim for the fun of it and for physical fitness: if…
