How To Get A Swimmers Body

A classic swimmers shape is often described as a V-shape back, broad shoulders, defined abdominals and an overall toned shape. How you get a swimmers shape depends on how long you can spend working out.

Is it as simple as swimming a lot?

If you are under 10 and genetically gifted, maybe. Male professional swimmers will spend 4 – 6 hours a day in the pool plus do other dry land work with resistance (weights) and cardiovascular training. Their shape will have developed as their testosterone was pumping in their formative early teenage years.

The fastest way to get a swimmers body

Just swimming is NOT the best way to get a swimmers body! Shape advancement depends on challenging the muscles with resistance to make them grow bigger.

Using the right type of exercises you can increase muscle in key areas using resistance training (weights). Unless you are doing hours each day in the pool, you will only get limited muscle growth as you need to increase the resistance to further stimulate growth.

Swimming is a great form of cardiovascular exercise but it will only develop the pull muscles. This leads to injuries and the body becoming unbalanced. Professional swimmers will ensure they develop their push muscles with weight training. The best way to get a swimmers body is using weights as your primary means of increasing lean muscle through resistance training.

To reveal the muscle you must reduce the covering layer of subcutaneous fat. To get the perfect swimmers shape you should be aiming for no more than 12% body fat. Cardiovascular exercise like swimming or rowing will reduce the fat if combined with the right nutrition. Nutrition is also the key to accelerating muscle growth.

How to get an amazing body is as simple as increasing muscle and reducing fat. But this must be taken a step further if you want the shape of an athletic swimmer as opposed to just being muscle bound. You must have a clear goal of what overall shape you are aiming for as it is the proportions of toned muscle that makes the attractive shape of The Swimmers Body.

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Keith Tucker is a personal trainer and nutritional coach. He has worked with other experienced industry professionals to create The Swimmers Body program.

To learn more about a structured step-by-step approach on how to get a swimmers body check out TheSwimmersBody.com

Swimming Aids.

Swimming aids are a fantastic and fun way to develop a child's confidence in the water and help them to learn to swim. Below I have Listen a few of my favourite swimming aids but I want to take a moment to issue a word of warning. Swimming aids are never a substitute for parental/adult supervision. Whenever a child is in the pool it is absolutely vital that he/she is supervised. A swimming aid will NOT prevent your child from drowning.

Use the swimming aids as intended and have great fun.






I also recommend the use of arm bands for beginner swimmers. I have used them for both of my boys whilst learning to swim, they help build confidence and a love of the water. As your child improves you can let a little air out of the arm bands giving less and less support.

Remember that swimming aids are designed to be used with adult supervision at all times.

Stay Safe by the pool and enjoy.

Safety Turtle Anti Drowning Alarm

Safety Turtle is a fantastic personal alarm system designed in Canada. A few years ago we were fortunate enough to become official distributors of the European model. We love this product and used it with our own son until a few years ago. My son is a fantastic swimmer now, but the peace of mind it gave us during those early years was unbelievable.
Let me tell you how the personal anti drowning alarm works. You get a base station which is about the size of a portable cd carry case. This goes into the house and is plugged into a normal electrical socket. The safety turtle wristbands, as you might imagine are shaped like little turtles. For our European market we have green turtles and blue turtles. The wristbands are completely sealed and childproof. The wristbands are strapped onto your child's wrist and locked in place securely using a special key. The wristbands are light and comfortable to wear (lighter than a watch). With each wristband comes a baby turtle (a miniature version of the one on the wristband), this baby turtle is pushed into a socket on the base station. With the baby turtle in place, the base station plugged in and the safety turtle wristband securely fastened to your child's wrist the alarm is working. If your child falls into the swimming pool now a shrill alarm will sound at the base station.
Any number of same colour wristbands can be used with just 1 base station, making this a cost effective and reliable to protect all of your children around the swimming pool.
The base staion covers an area of approximately 200ft (60m).
For more information and to purchase from the Safety Turtle range please go to:
http://www.pc-menorca.com/
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