Another diet tips question has come in this week. Let’s tackle it straight away:
I want to build my muscles and work on getting a toned stomach like close to a 6 pack or like the starting of one? just basicly getting all toned up and building on my strenght and muscles.
I need to know what foods i should eat while i train and what NOT to eat.
I also need any imformation on any spasific swimming strokes i should focus on to work on spasific area’s.
I am just about 6 foot, I am 63kg thats like 140 pounds
Any other information would help
Should i shave my body hair?
Is it worth buying the speedo shorts for the speed?
anything 
thanks alot
Why? Carbs supply you with long term energy that will keep you going during your workouts; fruits and veggies contain a lot of great vitamins and minerals that will keep you going; protein will help keep your muscles healthy
What foods not to eat: Sugars (candy, ice cream, sweets), junk foods (potato chips, greasy foods, saturated fats), and pop, beer and drugs.
Why? Sugars are simple carbs that you will use and then your body will crash (sluggishness, tiredness, ect.); the bad chemicals and oils in them will not help your internal digestion and they make your body feel slow and unhealthy; and the last three are due mainly with reaction times (how fast you get off the block and how you recover), and your shouldn’t do them anyway if you are trying to get healthy. They will make you feel super slow.
Body hair: Normally swimmers don’t shave their heads, legs, and arms until they get to their final meet (conference, sectionals, state).
Suit: Speedos are the normal competing suits, but jammers (knee length suits) are also really popular.
Strokes: Start off with freestyle, and have a coach or trainer help you with the specifics of backstroke, butterfly, breaststroke. They are really easy to mess up and do wrong without coaching, so make sure you have help getting the technique right. Beginning swimmers normally start in free and work their way up to back, fly and breast.
A good site for stroke help is this one: http://ezinearticles.com/?Swimming—The-Four-Strokes&id=128364. Looking up the strokes on Youtube will also help you a lot too.
Good Luck!
140 lb is not too bad. but 4 tips u can eat from the food pyramid. the trick is not to eat less but to eat more healthy foods and less junk food. but u can still eat junk food. also 4 musules just work out on a wight beanch. if u dont have one then go to an athletic club. mabey even get a member ship. if u think that u should save ur legs then u can do that. dont shave ur head or anything like that. shave not going to do much differents at all. well good luck
Comment by guest — March 22, 2010 @ 10:12 am
mostly protein to build the muscles, especially after practice like yogurt or fruit and peanut butter helps to rebuild those muscles, lots and lots of pasta and just things that would give you energy limit on energy bars, eat those on meet days or something. yea just lower do on junk food cause they boost you up for a while then it starts to drain your energy. pullups, pushups, and ab work are the three basic things although running is up there as well, develop your core cause that drives swimming so make sure you have a strong core and endurance(running) . after everything stretching doesnt hurt it helps to loosen your muscles
Comment by COCO — March 22, 2010 @ 10:58 am