Weight training: strength for everyone.
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- Record sourced from PubMed, PMID 20086787.
- Also identified by DOI 10.3810/psm.1998.03.1598.
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Abstract
In prehistoric times, competitive swimmers never lifted weights. The conventional wisdom was that weight training would make their muscles too bulky and would slow them down. This turned out to be untrue. Weight training made swimmers stronger and they moved through the water like trout.