Whats up guys, in about a month, my swim season will begin and that will mean taking a 4 month break from weightlifting. This is because i swim every single day bascially for 2 hours.
Last year after coming back from the 4 month break i did not loose any strength and maybe lost very little muscle mass. My question is--is it possible to gain some muscle mass from swimming alone with a proper diet. Our practices are both sprints and endurace. So that means i will be working both types of muscle fibres, type I and type II. i know the type I are smaller than the type II but can i still aquire some mass? I will be taking creatine, whey protein mix (malto dextrin, dextrose, hydrolized high quality whey protein, glutamine peptide, and BCAA's), and multi vitamin/multi mineral/anti-oxidants/B complex capsule.
Thanks in advance.
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09-17-2005, 06:34 PM #1
Gaining muscle from swimming?
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09-17-2005, 06:55 PM #2
Swimming is one of the/if not THE most complex sports! It is great for your health...here are some of its advantages:
- Swimming uses almost all the major muscle groups, and places a vigorous demand on your heart and lungs.
- Swimming provides most of the aerobic benefits that running does, with many of the benefits of resistance training thrown in.
- Swimming does not put the strain on connective tissues that running, aerobics and some weight-training regimens do.
- Swimming develops muscle strength and endurance, and improves posture and flexibility.Your gonna eat lightning and your gonna crap thunder Mickey
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09-17-2005, 06:59 PM #3
I swam 3 years of varsity in high school. I grew a little bit of lats, but that's it. Why do you think BB's always call people swimmers when they're making fun of someones body.
I don't know either lol
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09-17-2005, 07:01 PM #4Originally Posted by W8isGR8
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09-17-2005, 07:05 PM #5
Maybe 'swimmers' is just a bb slang term! Like juniors/seniors call on 9th grades: FISH! Swimmers in general have great bodies!
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09-17-2005, 07:49 PM #6
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swimming wont really build u up, u might get half decent shoulders but in the end its just a form of cardio, tho a damn good one... another benefit not mentioned above is u can do it with more intensity for longer periods as the water cools your body making it more bearable
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09-17-2005, 08:05 PM #7
I use to take swimming lessons starting when I was 5 years old and quit when I was 17. I was always thin with small muscles and I never had a swimmer's body because I have narrow shoulders. However swimming was good for cardio.
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09-17-2005, 08:54 PM #8Originally Posted by varteju
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09-17-2005, 08:55 PM #9
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09-17-2005, 10:21 PM #10
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swimming to gain mass is like an oxymoron
mass = +++calories in
swimming = ---calories out
Originally Posted by Zoupa
i wish people would realize that that most if not all athletes train with weights.
like football players; i can't believe people HONESTLY believe that they never weight train and they get that big just from playing football, lmao.<->
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09-17-2005, 10:32 PM #11
You're not going to end up looking like arnie.
Unless you train with weights on your hands+feet or something.:)
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09-17-2005, 10:39 PM #12Originally Posted by $AJ
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09-17-2005, 10:41 PM #13
Oh, and on top of lifting weights, high level athletes generally have fairly good (muscular) genetics.
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09-17-2005, 10:42 PM #14
Swimming is for pansies anyway.
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09-17-2005, 10:50 PM #15
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Originally Posted by Zoupa
i need me some better genetics, heh<->
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09-17-2005, 11:26 PM #16
swimming won't build muscle/mass like weight training does, even if it does its "soft" muscle. you will never achieve that ripped/hard powerful look.
if you look at most swimmers many of them have wide bony shoulders with skinny arms and torso.Self improvement is masturbation.
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09-18-2005, 02:41 AM #17
I think the thread maker has to make a decision, weights or swimming. One or the other bro.
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09-18-2005, 07:00 AM #18Originally Posted by AussieBloke
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09-18-2005, 07:06 AM #19
everything on the internet should be taken at face value. i was just joking dude.
:)
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09-18-2005, 08:42 AM #20
You won't really get that big from swimming, simple fact. But you will gain strength. Like a friend of mine, he's a kayaker....he just recently started doing some lifting, but more for strength purposes than BB'ing. At any rate, he's a real skinny kid but you're amazed at how much weight he can lift even though he has like no muscle haha. So swimming will give you strength, but mass? hardly.
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09-18-2005, 09:03 AM #21
What about incorporating at least some weight training a couple times a week during your swim season?
Even if you can only do 20-30 mins a sesson, it should help you out if you can do a couple/ few times a week.
If last season you didn't loose that much, this may help you gain.
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09-18-2005, 09:53 AM #22
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Actually, my back didn't start really filling out until I started swimming.
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09-18-2005, 10:39 AM #23
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dude you were really 520 lbs @ 62% BODYFAT!??? Good work, thats insane.
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09-18-2005, 02:16 PM #24
I recommend you swim and lift weights, I do it and I'm a competive Club swimmer and high school swimmer.
Your swimming will generally not give you weight, with the exception being your back and shoulders. Since I started ~9-10 months ago, I have gained a lot on my back and shoulders.
With proper diet, you can continue to swim and get big. I'm currently trying to get up to 185lbs for swimming. I have gone from 160 to 170 in about a month and a half, but thats only because I keep a good diet.
Good luck to you,
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09-18-2005, 06:13 PM #25
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You do not actually gain muscle from swimming. Any gains will be minimal. "Filling out" your back or any other muscle group/body part will most likely be the illusion of size from shedding bodyfat.
The gaining happens during the heavy lifting and associated diet.
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09-18-2005, 09:55 PM #26Originally Posted by fcukme421
So when u see the swimmers u see every single muscle on the back, shoulder delts, wide chest, but u do not see buff, bulked up massive body builder.... however the combo of it will give u a great results....
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03-28-2016, 02:36 PM #27
I am also curious
I weighed 130kg last year I now weigh 93kg( I got down too 95kg in four monthes. Haven't seemed to go down much and I sill have belly) I do weights every other day and in gaps I do running or step climbing. I wanted to add swimming to my router. In the mornings after run. As I want to get more defined body. But I also want to get bigger. I would like to do swimming but seeing all the posts looks like wont help me to much. I train 7 days a week the steps (15 min work out (run up the rock of Gibraltar ) if I go running it 30mins roughly 6.3km weights I do upper body and abs I don't do legs currently (due to horse legs from steps+ carrying all that fat) my eating properly is pretty bad. I only drink water and maby two days a week pizza rest healthy roasted peppers chicken or sweat potato chicken. Getting down to my question. Can I swim and still gain body mass (from gym) and not have swimming do negative impact. and how do I calculate this (swim and gym) to make sure I don't undo what I did at the gym. (Swim run morning gym I have always done at night ) also regarding technique ( always been professional swimmer till 18 then smoking and drinking killed that (don't smoke now and drink once or twice a month)
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03-28-2016, 02:41 PM #28
well, it's been 11 years, I wonder if Opie has figured this out yet?
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