Need help gaining weight/muscles

[louieeadg]

Still need help with butterfly...

Oh...and another thing...

Swimming is a skill sport. Make sure you're doing functional exercises and such...spending hours doing slow-twitch exercises just to gain mass is a waste of your time...Micheal Phelps was the fastest swimmer in the world at the last olympics but he's also one of the weakest swimmers in the world...but he swims 360 days a year.

 

[Poop-Loops]

Well, "fast/slow twitch" stuff is kind of irrelevant. You can't really selectively do one or the other, especially if you lift the weight at a faster pace instead of taking an hour per rep.

But you're right in that the main goal should be swimming, and everything else secondary. If strength was all you needed, then everybody would spend more time at the gym than at the pool.

Also conditioning is important. So don't forget that.