Can swimming be beneficial to sprinting on the track? Or will it work against me?
Is it smart to swim, when I suffer from injury and I want to revalidate. Or just to keep up speed and strength.
I’m a swimmer and not much of a runner (though perhaps that will change in the coming months), but here is my take.
Swimming is a radically different neural drive than running. In some circumstances it might be good for rehab, or just to give your CNS a break after a hard season. But I don’t know that doing it much in-season would be that good of an idea.
But perhaps some others have an opinion.
15-20 min of slow swimming are advised in some prestigious italian soccer Team to players as a mean of CNS recovery.
My thinking is swimming could provide an interesting stimulus for a sprinter only from a general fitness and recovery standpoint by getting the whole body muscles to work in a very different way .
For the purpose I always found 40"-50" work intervals with adequate recoveries to work way better than any form of continuous swimming.
Thanks, I can work with this