Is Swimming A Great Method To Reduce 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 must initially declare that I am not against swimming. On the contrary, I swim consistently for the sake of my cardiovascular wellness.

Nonetheless, some research seem to suggest that swimming is not an efficient method to slim down and in reality, one can easily even gain weight with swimming. Getting more bewildering eh?

Swimming is looked at by lots of people as one of the greatest exercises or sports to slim down and to tone muscles due to the fact that when you swim, most of your muscles are called into action and you are in fact having a full body exercise. Additionally, swimming also has an aerobic effect and so the heart and lungs are getting their dose of exercise as well.

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

Professor Grant Gwinup performed an experiment correlating swimming with weight loss and came up with surprising 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 raise calorie consumption. Do you feel starving after a swimming session? If you do, then professor could be right.

Professor Louise Burke, Head of Nutrition at the Australian Institute of Sport pointed out that competitive swimmers generally have body fat levels that are greater than those of runners or cyclists who expend a similar quantity of energy when they train.

Why is that so? This is since swimmers feel famished after swimming and may just change all the calories they have actually burned with a huge meal and a sugar laden beverage after their swim.

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

"Some research proposes that this is due to the cool temperatures in which swimmers often train in and by comparison, joggers and bicyclists typically experience a rise in body temp in the course of their training sessions, which may help to restrain appetite." Professor Burke stated.

Professor Burke additionally noted that competitive swimmers are less active when not in training sessions. The swimmers are so exhausted from the hours of demanding training that they sleep, loosen up or stay clear of any active physical activities outside their training sessions. Deja vu? Do you feel exhausted 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 effectively when only the good muscles are worked on? By the way, before you say that competitive swimmers have nice muscle tonesince they lift weights to preserve muscle balance in addition to to get strength for more powerful strokes.

Please, do not give up swimming if you take pleasure in the sport. Doing any sort of exercise or sport is far better than not exercising at all. Simply make sure that you don't consume even more or come to be more less active after your invigorating swim.




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