Is swimming an effective exercise for weight loss?
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Swimming is an excellent way to lose fat and very low impact. Just remember that in order to lose weight, you must stay in the heart rate zone (135-160) for a good and constant period of time, like 20-30 minutes each time. Work up to it if you can't swim for 30 minutes straight.
204210
Depends on the individual, and where you swim.\nPools don't cause any harm, as long as someone is watching and adjusting the water chemistry.  Swimming laps will make you feel livelier and better off, and you'll get into better physical shape.\nBe careful if you swim in the sea.  Watch for rip tides, and know what to do if you're caught by one.  Check with the local authorities to see if the water is bacteriologically contaminated.\nFresh water swimming is generally safe.  Just use common sense.\nUse sunscreen if you plan to be in the midday sun for a while.  Swimming tends to wash it off; reapply if necessary.
670187
Swimming is the best exercise. Do stomach crunchs (where you go up half way) to flatten your tummy.
183284
I'm pretty sure it's best to do whole body exercizes. That's why running and swimming give really good results, because they work a lot of your body and not just one part.\nAlso, you don't want to put too much strain on a body part of it could become sore.
772999
There is no way you can target weight loss to any one part of the body - it's simply impossible.  Anyone who tells you otherwise is misinformed or trying to sell you something.\n\nThe only way to lose weight is to burn up more calories than you eat.  It's that simple.  Water is good for you and it has no calories, but it doesn't reduce fat, regardless of what temperature it is.
420103
Eating healthy, consistent exercise and lots of water is the right way to start and are important for a healthy lifestyle but they won't necessarily cause you to lose weight.\n\nTo use exercise to lose weight:\nYour cardio exercise should have your heart rate at a minimum of 80% of maximum which is generally 220 - age\nand maintain that for over 20 minutes. At 20 minutes, your blood glucose level is depleted and your muscles start to burn fat so every minute beyond 20 minutes you are directly burning fat. If you increase your muscle mass, it does increase your weight since muscle is denser than fat but you burn more calories even when you are resting when you have more muscle. \n\nThe last five-ten pounds will not come off so easily however short of starting a fitness plan that has you training for a marathon (running so much that it matters less about much you eat though what you eat will affect performance).
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Yes you could lose weight by running 1 hour per day.  Running is a bigger calorie burner than swimming, but it is fine to mix them up.\n\nGenerally, running burns 100 calories per mile or 100 calories per 10 minutes.  Your calorie burn will vary depending upon your fitness level and how hard you are working.\n\nSo assuming you burn 500 calories per run, it'll take you (theoretically speaking) 10 weeks to lose 10 pounds (7 days per week at 500 calories, where 3500 calories equals one pound).  \n\nHowever, running that much might result in injury, especially if you currently aren't a runner.  I recommend hitting the pool or an elliptical trainer.  Your body will enjoy the change of pace and you'll put less stress on your joints and you'll have less burnout.\n\nI usually run about 25 - 30 miles a week and hit the gym for weights 4 x week and I've maintained my weight for years.\n\nYou can use a site such as www.fitday.com to monitor your calories and activities to see how you are doing.  Keep in mind, you certainly aren't overweight and I'd recommend using running for fitness, not a weight loss tool.\n\nGood luck.
866251
apo2_99 is wrong, you do sweat, but your in a pool so who cares.  but there are many advantages.  good for cardiocascular stuff, both aerobic and anaerobic activity.  stretches out your muscles, relieves stress, helps you sleep, keeps you in shape/ gets you in shape.  very fun.  good way to avoid drowning.  and just by learning to swim, you'll be a better swimmer than 95% of the world, so that is cool.
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if you swim laps before and do streches before to get you warmed upI swim 70 lengths of a 25meter pool at least 3 times a week. I have been doing this since I was little. It is good exercise but not great for losing weight. Then again it might work differently for you. 64 lenghts = 1 mile. Front crawl is best. If you have not swam for a while or never at all, built up your lengths add a few more on every night. Stop for a breather every 10 lengths of so and always bring water.yes swimming is exercise you burn 600 calories and hour and it really shapes your arms...try doing jumping jacks in the water...or doing rolling your arms in the pool (put your arms under the water and bend then in front of you and put one hand in front of the other and roll and do that for some time..or stand with your hands at your sides and bring your arms up and down ...try walking or running in the same stop you can also do modified squats or hold the side of the pool and bring your legs forward that what i do in the summer.Running is good but swimming is also good as well. It is a good form of exercise and workouts depend on the length of your pool. You should do many laps of swimmimg depending on your level of fitness. If you have not been swimming in a long time it may feel tiring at first but you will get used to it. As you get better you should increase the amount of swimming. A good idea is to join a swim class. Swimming is a good alternative to running because it doesnt have that high impact that running does. Oh yeah and before your swim workout you should strech, like your quads, calves, triceps, ect. I had a bad experience once. I was doing drills (The flutter kick thing) and right in the middle of the pool i got a cramp on my quad. It was painful. That is why you should strecth.
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I think so. To swim, you need to use all of your muscles and, depending on what stroke you do, it can be a really good excercise for certain muscles. Also, there are lots of differant levels of swimming that will challenge you more as you learn.
528117
cardio, crunches, pilates, swimming is probably one of the best ways, not just floating around but actually swimming laps since you're using everything you got.
870981
OH YES!!!!!!!\n\nAnd if you are nto swimming for competition and can swim well enough you could save your life.. then you dont have to learn anything else!\n\nUnless you want to!\n\nBreaststroke is great ... keep on going...\n\nYou can also use a kick board for working out and just kick ...really works out the legs\n\nGood for you any kind of swimming is gerat for fitness!\n\nGood Luck and keep it up!\nWismom
372270
Swimming is exersize!  Any movement in a pool is good!  Just try simple arobics in the pool!  Good luck!
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It really depends on how vigorous the exercise is and whether your diet stays constant.  \n\nYou can probably burn between 300-400 kcal for 30 minutes of swimming.  It take burning or decreasing 3500 kcal to lose 1 pound of weight (or 7700 kcal for 1 kg).   If you keep your diet constant, you could lose around 3 pounds or 1.3 kgs in a month. Swimming can make you hungry though so if you're doing it just to lose weight, you should also monitor your calorie intake.\n\nIt's recommended that you shouldn't try to lose more that 2 pounds or 1 kg a week, so losing 10 kgs in a month could be unhealthy.\n\nSwimming is a lot of fun and will help keep you in shape and fit.  Try not to have unrealistic expectations though on how fast you'll see the results.
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Swimming is an excellent exercise for pregnant women, especially since it is low impact.  Just check with your doctor first.
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Well, the first thing is eating a well balanced diet.  Then you need to start to motivate yourself into some sort of physical activity... Walking is a good start, swimming is an outstanding physical activity.  With the well balanced diet, and the physical activity, you will see an improvement  in the way you feel.  I really implore anyone who wants to lose weight, or make an improvement in your well being to shy away from any type of Carb depleting diet.  Such as the adkins.. What these do is where you may lose weight, you are doing more harm than good.  In order to do it properly, you have to include the entire spectrum of a balanced diet.  when you slack on carbs during a physical training program you aren't providing your mucsles the fuel to rebuild.  Be more concerned about inches lost, not pounds, as fat weighs less than mucscle.  Regarding disease prevention, the above will help, but won't totally put it out of the realm of possibility.  People who have cancer, which we all have cancer cells, don't have the needed ingrediant that keeps the cancer at bay.  That was explained to me by my mothers chemotheropist.  As my mother didn't smoke, nor did she drink.  And she ate a well balanced diet.  So...
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no theres never a qucik way to lose weight ... That takes time and energy.... its not that u wont drop water if u work out , that will look like u lost weight ,, But its only water weight u had on ..