No improvement, what next?
1) My torso completely dwarfs my arms, giving me a bad side view. I need to supersize my arms. I’ve been doing 15 sets of heavy triceps work. For biceps, 14 sets. I’ve been following this routine over a year, twice a week. But there’s no improvement in size AT ALL. Do hourly swimming sessions four times a week thin arms? Or can it be my diet? 2) I can see & feel a six pack in my mid section when I tighten it. But when I leave it relaxed, my belly looks big.
Probably not diet if it is protein-high and full of good and fresh stuff — veggies and clean carbs and EFAs.
You’re as fit as a fiddle, but want the body of a bass. Your problem is the healthy, but contradictory, swimming regimen. You can do both and life is good, but you will not excel at both at once: opposing musclebuilding activity; volume swimming naturally encourages the body to be efficiently strong and buoyant, hence, streamlined musculature, less muscle bulk and more internal fat and surface fat.
Life is full of compromises…
As a swimmer you have well-developed diaphragm muscles from proper and dutiful breathing. And in the watery environment your associated abdominal and breathing muscles are left to properly distend as you inhale and exhale. That, plus the swimmer’s buoyancy factor, might be a hard to overcome problem. Due to structure and genetic factors, not everyone can achieve the desirable six-pack.
My thoughts… press on… God’s strength… DD