Hi.

I was told at the gym the other day that going swimming after lifting weights will waste all the work I have just done. ie. I won't get any bigger becuse the blood has been pumped to different parts of my body when swimming.


Is this true? The guy who told me was just another gym go'er like myself so I don't want to take JUST his word for it.


Any advice appreciated.

in case if it is not a joke^^ seit wann schreibt man bei workout.de auf english?

you will not waste all that you have done if you go swimming at the same day.

The question is whether you have enough energy after weightlifting to swin properly.
I would go swimming at weightlifting-free days.

It could be quite true that the catabolic influences - which arise shortly after a hard muscle-session - will complicate with the induced muscle-growth when you do an excessive swimming-workout shortly afterwards.
Based on long-term considerations, ALWAYS going swimming after a hypertrophic-session could make things harder for you.
But I can see no point in not going swimming just for relaxing your muscles after their training.

relaxing? omg!^^ I did that once and 10min after i began swimming, i had my first cramp.
But if it's no problem for your i would say that swimming assume the same function as doing some cardio after training for cooling down.