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Can I lose weight by swimming ? |
in the summer i swim alot and i wanted to know if you could lose weight by swimming Of course you can loose weight by swimmming! I am a huge swimmer and I look a lot better than I did when I didn't swim! And your having a lot of fun to! u can, its just another exercise... u burn calories yes. Swimming helps u lose weight not so much as gain muscle It all depends on your diet. Swimming is an excercise just like walking. You can lose weight, tone your muscles, and gain muscles. It's also great for your joints. However, if you try to exercise and still have a high calorie diet, then you will not lose weight. If you want to lose weight you need to exercise and reduce your caloric intake. Here's the thing: swimming as in floating around getting a tan on a float all day will make you fat. What you need is competitive swimming or at least doing lap swimming with a work out plan that you stick to. This will drastically increase your metabolism and your body's ability to store and hold in food and nutrients in general. If you have decent stroke technique and can do some basics in making a practice for yourself you should be in good shape. But also to start with I'd swim at a pool with actual lane lines and solid walls and starting blocks, swimming in the pool in your backyard might be tricky and for swimming backstroke it's really tough to know when you have to flip over for your flipturn. It'd really help if you knew how to do a flip turn, doing a regular side turn isn't as good for you and in most cases it takes up more time. To start with you should wear a one-piece suit to start with (based on your avatar) and you should swim freestyle for the beginning. Swim 100 yards or meters just like you would in practice and push yourself just a little bit but not too much, this is really what's going to ensure you lose weight. Get a time from that and that will be your base time. From there repeat that for things like a 200 with a kickboard, a 200 with a pull buoy and so on so that you know your times for swimming. From there you can make intervals for yourself, add about 10-15 seconds of rest per every normal thing that you do, about 5-10 seconds for every hard thing you do and add between 0-5 seconds for everything really hard you do in short course, for longer things add about 5-10 seconds. These are what we call intervals and they tell you when to start the next thing and they're a big part of swimming. For example, if you were doing 4 100's easy on 1:40 you'd go at the top (60 or 0 on clocks) and then you'd do another one at the 40 mark when you come back, because that's a minute and 40 seconds that your interval is on. Once you have that down you can add in odd strokes like backstroke, breaststroke and butterfly (if you can swim them). After that you'll probably want to join a swim club (it's just about guarenteed, it happens to everyone) and from there you'll learn a lot of specifics on swimming. |
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