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Is Swimming A Good Sport To Lose Weight?

By Paul Shaffer


Have you taken up swimming as a sport to help you to reduce weight? If you are, you are not alone due to the fact that the majority of individuals think that swimming is effective means to tone muscles and reduce weight. This is why the public pools all over are constantly packed in the nights and on weekends.

Before I upset you, I need to first proclaim that I am not against swimming. On the contrary, I swim on a regular basis for the sake of my aerobic health.

However, some analysts appear to recommend that swimming is not an efficient method to slim down and in reality one can even acquire weight with swimming. Getting more bewildering eh?

Swimming is looked at by lots of people as one of the very best exercises or sports to slim down and to tone muscles since when you swim, many of your muscles are called into action and you are really having a full body training. In addition, swimming also has an aerobic result and so the heart and lungs are getting their dosage of workout too.

Nonetheless, an analysis published in the American Journal of Sports Medicine demostrated that in the absence of a controlled diet, swimming has little or no result on weight loss.

Professor Grant Gwinup carried out a trial correlating swimming with fat burning and developed unexpected outcomes.

a) Test subjects put in a cycling program lost 19 pounds in a 90 days research.

b) Those following a walking program lost 17 pounds in the same duration.

c) Now, brace yourself for this! Subjects in the swimming program actually acquired an additional 5 pounds!

Did the results shock you? I couldn't believe exactly what I was reading when I first came across the report.

Professor Gwinup then assumes that swimming in cold water stimulates the cravings to increase caloric consumption. Do you feel starving after a swimming session? If you do, then professor could possibly be right.

Professor Louise Burke, Head of Nutrition at the Australian Institute of Sport mentioned that competitive swimmers normally have body fat levels that are greater than those of runners or bicyclists who expend a comparable amount of energy when they train.

Why is that so? This is because swimmers feel hungry after swimming and may just change all the calories they have burned with a large meal and a sugar stuffed beverage after their swim.

On top of that, they may even eat more calories than they have consumed.

"Some research suggests that this is because of the cool temps in which swimmers commonly train in and by comparison, runners and cyclists normally experience a rise in body temp throughout their training sessions, which could help to reduce cravings." Professor Burke stated.

Professor Burke additionally took note that competitive swimmers are less active when not in training sessions. The swimmers are so weary from the hours of demanding training that they sleep, unwind or stay clear of any sort of active physical activities outside their training sessions. Deja vu? Do you feel worn out and sleepy after a swim?

Now, let's talk about toning muscles. Do note that most of the work your body does when swimming includes good muscle actions and no negative action and we understand that the adverse phase, that is, when lowering the weights throughout weightlifting is very important in creating muscle.

So can your muscles develop appropriately when only the good muscles are worked on? By the way, prior to you stating that competitive swimmers have good muscle tone due to the fact that they raise weights to maintain muscle balance in addition to to obtain strength for more effective strokes.

Please, do not quit swimming if you enjoy the sport. Doing any sort of workout or sport is far better than not working out at all. Simply make certain that you don't eat more or come to be more less active after your stimulating swim.




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