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In article: <305293054wnr@jantech.demon.co.uk>  Jan Piechocki <jan@jantech.demon.co.uk> writes:
> 
> In article <3p20pk$olc@aztec.co.za>, cgilliam@aztec.co.za (Chris Gilliam) writes:
> |> What is the best way to become a faster swimmer?
> |> When I swim i see all these people around me who can swim a lot faster than me 
> |> while (seemingly) putting in the same amount of effort!What's the trick?
> |> 
> |> Will doing weight training and becoming stronger help me or is it all in the 
> |> stroke techinue?
> 
> Doing weight training definitely helps.  By building stronger
> arms and chest, you will be able to pull more water per stroke
> and thus go faster.  Doing situps to build a strong abdomen
> is recommended also.
> 
> So workout in the gym using weights to increase your upper
> body strength.  Your stroke will definitely become more
> powerful as a result.

E.Maglisco refers to stroke technique giving the biggest gains, physical
strength only a 10-20% change. It's when you put the two together :)

(E.Maglisco, "Swimming even faster", Mayfield Press, ISBN 1-55934-036-3)

I guess this was a miss-post to demon.tech.pc, so I've posted it 'back?' 
to rec.sport.swimming :^)  Either that or our news-server is broken AGAIN!
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Julian A F Bradbury                               Ergonomist & IT Specialist