I recently started weight training with compound exercises only. I've noticed I'm not as good at aerobic swim sets as I used to be. Should I be concerned?

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Erin Carson · Answer

When you first start a strength training program, you might notice that your aerobic performance might decrease a little bit. So the question is, I recently started weight training with compound exercises and I've noticed I'm not as good as aerobic swim sets as I used to be? Should I be concerned? Well I would be concerned a little bit for a couple of reasons. Number one, you want to make sure that you're not over training, you're not overdoing it. The desire to be better will always come deep from deep within an athlete and you need to make sure that your program is. Actually organized. So that as you want to increase your performance in your sport, perhaps we pull back the volume of strength training so that you make sure you're not going into those sessions in a fatigue state. If you do enter into a session in a fatigue State, managing your expectations might be a really, really good idea. Periodization is about times throughout the year where training is a little bit easier and a little bit harder but manage. Aging expectations is really, really important and it's really the key to overcoming performance deficits and just keep getting better.

John Sinclair · Answer

I recently started weight training with compound exercise only. So, for those of you out there, compound exercise is multi-joint, full-body activities and he says, I've noticed, I'm not as good at aerobic swim set since I used to be. Should I be concerned? Well, depends on the programming of your compound exercises. There is a possibility that you're doing heavy weights and it's You're fearing with your aerobic training, what I would suggest, and I'm just guessing. But what I would suggest is keep up with the compound exercises, just increase the duration of each set. So, lighter, weight and move for a long period of time. Build your muscular endurance with compound exercises and that will improve your anaerobic capacity and have your body's ability to still. Improve your Aerobic System. So we give you lots of rest time after we do submaximal effort, maybe two minutes at a time. Take next three to five minutes to recover and you will start to see that your Aerobic System is being trained as you're recovering. So remember we need to balance of your training and make sure it's not interfering and make sure that you're still getting the outcomes that you're looking for in the pool. Hope that helps

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"I recently started weight training with compound exercises only. I've noticed I'm not as good at aerobic swim sets as I used to be. Should I be concerned?"