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    The Ultimate Guide to Weight Training for Swimming
    The Ultimate Guide to Weight Training for Swimming
    The Ultimate Guide to Weight Training for Swimming
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    The Ultimate Guide to Weight Training for Swimming

    By Rob Price

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    The Ultimate Guide to Weight Training for Swimming is the most comprehensive and up-to-date swimming-specific training guide in the world today. It contains descriptions and photographs of nearly 100 of the most effective weight training, flexibility, and abdominal exercises used by athletes worldwide. This book features year-round swimming-specific weight-training programs guaranteed to improve your performance and get you results.

    No other swimming book to date has been so well designed, so easy to use, and so committed to weight training. This book was designed specifically for swimmers to increase strength, speed, endurance, and stamina. Not long after you begin following this guide you will cut seconds off of all of your strokes. Swimmers of all skill levels will be able to finish without running out of gas and will be able to swim at record paces until the end of the meet.

    Both beginners and advanced athletes and weight trainers can follow this book and utilize its programs. From recreational to professional, thousands of athletes all over the world are already benefiting from this book and its techniques, and now you can too!
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPrice World Publishing
    Release dateMay 1, 2011
    ISBN9781936910816
    The Ultimate Guide to Weight Training for Swimming

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      The Ultimate Guide to Weight Training for Swimming - Rob Price

      The

      Ultimate Guide to

      WEIGHT

      TRAINING

      for

      SWIMMING

      second edition

      Prior to beginning any exercise program, you must consult with your physician. You must also consult your physician before increasing the intensity of your training.

      Any application of the recommended material in this book is at the sole risk of the reader, and at the reader’s discretion. Responsibility of any injuries or other negative effects resulting from the application of any of the information provided within this book is expressly disclaimed.

      Published by Price World Publishing

      1300 W. Belmont Ave, Suite 20g

      Chicago, IL 60657

      Copyright © 2005 by Robert G. Price CPT.

      All rights reserved. Neither this book, nor any parts within it may be sold or reproduced in any form without permission.

      Book design by Jocelyn H. Hermozada

      Cover design by Alexandru Dan Georgescu

      Interior photographs by Marc Gollub

      Editing by Barb Greenberg

      Editing and proofreading by Maryanne Haselow-Dulin

      Printing by Express Media

      Second Edition, 2005

      ISBN: 978-1-936910-81-6

      10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2

      The

      Ultimate Guide to

      WEIGHT

      TRAINING

      for

      SWIMMING

      second edition

      Robert G. Price CPT

      CONTENTS

      Part I

      SWIMMING-SPECIFIC TRAINING

      Introduction

      Off-Season Training

      Preseason Training

      In-Season Training

      Training for Swimming

      How to Reduce Stubborn Knee Injuries in All Sports

      Part II

      GETTING STARTED

      Warming Up

      Cooling Down

      Abs

      Stretching

      Proper Form

      Proper Breathing

      Part III

      RECOMMENDED EXERCISES

      Substituting Similar Exercises

      Chest Exercises

      Back (Lats) Exercises

      Shoulders Exercises

      Triceps Exercises

      Biceps/Forearms Exercises

      Legs Exercises

      Part IV

      THE NECESSITIES

      Perfecting Your Technique

      Estimating Your One-Rep Max

      The Different Folks, Different Strokes Principle

      Overtraining and Staleness

      The Declaration of Variation

      Muscle Fibers

      Training Techniques

      When to Increase

      Safety Reminders

      Record Keeping

      Test Yourself

      Conclusion

      Part V

      SUPPLEMENTAL 4-WEEK PROGRAMS

      Endurance/Stamina/Fat-burning Programs

      General Fitness/Power Programs

      Strength Programs

      Part I

      SWIMMING

      Specific

      Training

      With Weight

      Training,

      KNOWLEDGE

      IS THE KEY

      TO SUCCESS

      INTRODUCTION

      By opening The Ultimate Guide to Weight Training for Swimming, you have taken your first step towards achieving your athletic potential. This book is loaded with the most up-to-date sports weight-training information and features a year-round swimming-specific weight-training program. Upon completion of the text, you will know how to properly, safely, and effectively perform over 80 exercises and you will be ready to begin your training.

      The true importance of this book lies in the swimming-specific programs in the front of the book. They were created for one reason and one reason only; to improve your swimming potential. They do this by increasing your strength, explosion, power, endurance, and flexibility in the parts of your body that are most important for swimming. Each program has been synergistically created to supply you with the advantage you will need to beat out your teammates and to outperform your opponents. By following the programs, you will build your muscles with strength and endurance as well as explosion, power, and agility. When the season begins, you will be physically prepared and mentally ready to compete at the highest of your potential.

      The programs were constructed in such a way that you will be on the top of your game the day the season starts and you will be able to maintain your strength and power throughout the season. The off-season program is set up as a two-day split, four days per week, which means you train all of your muscle groups over the course of two training sessions followed by a rest day. The off-season is where you will build your foundation of strength and power. The preseason routine is designed to further enhance your physical abilities enabling you to peak with strength and power at the onset of the season. And lastly, the in-season program is designed for the maintenance of your off-season gains without the risk of overtraining.

      This book does not teach you how to perform the breast stroke. It does not show you the best strategies to win a race, nor does it give you any tips to improve your specific skills. This book does, however, provide you with the best methods, programs, and strategies available to physically improve your body and maximize your swimming potential!

      OFF-SEASON TRAINING

      The off-season is the time in any sport to build up your muscles, become more powerful, and increase muscular endurance. The off-season program consists of four 4-week routines cycled together to maximize both muscular endurance and explosive-power. The first and third routines are designed to build your stamina and muscular endurance, while the second and fourth routines are designed more for power and explosion.

      Variation is very important to an effective workout program. Varying your routines keeps you making progress and gains. Your body eventually will adapt to any routine it’s on, so it is very important to change routines once your gains have stopped and your strength has peaked. Changing programs every four-weeks is the most effective time period to follow any one routine. For more information on the importance of variation to weight-training, see the section The Declaration of Variation on page 102.

      MUSCULAR ENDURANCE TRAINING

      The first and third routines of the off-season cycle are to enhance your muscular endurance. Weight-training for muscular endurance differs greatly from strength and power training. Strength training builds up size, bulk, and strength; power training builds explosion, speed, and intensity; and endurance training builds your stamina by enabling your muscles to work longer without fatiguing. Weight-training to increase your muscular endurance requires many slow movement repetitions to train and build your slow-twitch muscle fibers, which are responsible for increased endurance and stamina.

      The keys to endurance training are as follows:

      Low weight, high reps:

      Proper endurance training calls for lifting light weights many times. Weights that are less than 60% of your one-rep max are ideal. With more repetitions comes increased muscular endurance, or the ability of your muscles to operate at a high level over time. Every additional repetition helps to increase your muscular endurance. Typically, sets involving at least 20 repetitions are considered to be training your muscular endurance.

      Proper breathing:

      Breathing properly is extremely important in endurance training. As you perform repetition after repetition, your instincts will be to hold your breath. With each and every rep, be sure to

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