Swimming and Lifting

[Zac_Champigny]

Over the summer, I had started lifting for the first time in my life. I did so for about 2 months, and was really liking the results. I went away for a couple weeks, and kind of fell out of rhythm. Then I got back into it for a few weeks but got a new job that was very physically demanding, so once again stopped. Now after having not worked out for a month and a half, I have decided to get back into it. I have been swimming the last week and a half. I have never swam before, and it is a very good workout. I actually look forward to getting to the pool every day. I never really felt this way about working out, although I did like the way I used to look when I lifted weights. My question is, How could I incorporate lifting weights into swimming. I want to get some high rep low weight lifting in, but I'm not sure how many days I should swim vs how many days I should lift. If anyone else out there does both swimming and lifting, I would love to hear how you do it. I don't know much about lifting besides how to do the exercises, so I don't exactly know how I should break down a heavy cardio exercise that uses my whole body, and lifting weights. Thanks for any help.

 

[CowPimp]

3 day lifting splits are very common. You could lift 3 days per week and swim another 1-4 days per week, depending on how much you like doing it and what your goals are.

 

[Zac_Champigny]

So if basically I did a
Swim sunday
Lift monday
swim tuesday
lift wednesday
swim thursday
lift friday
swim saturday

That would be fine, and the swimming and lifting would not interfere with eachother?

Also, could I swim on the lifting days? I really like doing this swimming, and if it wouldnt hurt, I would like to do it all days.

 

[bluefin]

Swimming

hii
continmue with your swimming
that will kwwp you fitfater swimming you can lift the weights
start with small amounts then preoceed to big amounts

 

[GFR]

great combo

 

[CowPimp]

In theory it is best to do no cardio if you are trying to put on mass, but I don't think it will be much of a problem as long as you eat enough food.

 

[The Monkey Man]

Swimming is a low impact cardio exercise
(Unless you swim at an Olympic level)

Even if you are running a heavy bulk, three days of LI cardio for 20 minutes
is a must I think!!!

Just to keep your metabolism from totally going into the shitter