The boys’ swim team is off to a good start to the season with many swimmers dropping time, partly due to dryland and weight lifting training.

According to head coach Amanda Forsberg, the team hopes to continue dropping time from its early swims of this season.

“Usually in swimming you hit a little bit of a plateau just because it’s hard to do all that training and not see a flat line in the times. But I have been thoroughly impressed so far and I hope it continues,” Forsberg said.

To help swimmers get past this plateau, dryland and weight training is a part of the swimmers’ training regimen.

Assistant coach Joe Yaeger, said they do a variety of exercises that works various muscle groups

“We do a ton of lunges, squats, squat jumps and core activities,” Yaeger said.

The training done outside the pool shows when the swimmers get back in the pool.

“We see a lot of benefits on strength off the starts, turns, underwater kicks and endurance in the pool due to the dryland and weight training,” Yaeger said.

Freshman David Salamzadeh said he has been on the swim team since seventh grade and remembers all the dryland and weights practices.

“Every time we do something a little bit different. We work on our legs mainly, and you can feel it even as you’re walking back to the locker room,” Salamzadeh said.

According to Salamzadeh, some swimmers have thrown up in the past while doing dryland training.

“No one has thrown up yet this season but usually once every season someone does,” Salamzadeh said.

The boys’ swim team hopes to see the effort pay off in its next meet 6 p.m. Jan. 27 at home against Watertown Mayer.