Me. As someone who grows up being an amphibian, I can attest to how wonderful swimming can do to those who are serious about exercise but have issues with joints and other weight-related constraint. The water buoyancy helps to support your body weight, removing the impact and stress while the resistance that water gives demands full-body workout.Steve1960 wrote:So this is relevant although I could also have posted it elsewhere on this site.
Does anyone go swimming on a regular basis for exercise? I have high blood pressure and am about 10kg over weight and I need some motivation to get into the pool (yes I know the high BP alone should be motivation enough!), having a swim partner would help. I need to do non impact exercise after having spinal surgery a couple of times over the years.
I was suggesting a swimming coach because I believe it is a good start to kickstart the motivation in you. Anticipating to go for one-on-one lessons with your coach will be more than enough to kick you into packing your sports bag on your way out to work.Steve1960 wrote:That's great advice thanks I had not thought about a swimming coach and I will look to see if anyone else wants a swim partner.
In a time before dinosaurs walked the earth I used to be a competition swimmer, swam for London and Essex. In recent years I did a number of 5km swims for charity with around 50km or training beforehand.
I always said to myself I would continue the training after each charity swim but of course it never happened
Weighing in at 87kg and would dearly love to be 77kg!
So for my weight of approximately 112lbs for 30 minutes' of each workout:sundaymorningstaple wrote:If you are swimming to lose weight, you may as well not bother. Swimming is good for toning up the entire body, but isn't really a way to lose weight unless coupled along with a change of lifestyle, e.g., what you eat.
It takes approximately 7,700 calories more than the calories taken in during a given period to loss to lose one kilo of weight. 1 kg = 7,700 calories.
Swimming - moderate for 30 minutes will burn approximately 237 calories; Swimming vigorously for 30 will burn 382 calories. or approximately 50 grams or 1.5 Oz of fat. assuming you don't replace it with 382 calories of garbage later.
http://www.healthstatus.com/calculate_metric/cbc
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