How effective is swimming?

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  • JCLondonUK
    JCLondonUK Posts: 159
    Front crawl and Freestyle are one and the same. Freestyle is the competition word for front crawl for lack of a better explanation.

    Thanks! :smile:
  • Madame_Goldbricker
    Madame_Goldbricker Posts: 1,625 Member
    This website has a range of workout plans according to what you want and your current fitness level:

    http://www.swimming.org/swimfit/

    I swim at least twice a week and as others have commented, make sure that my heat rate is up. I use a float and pull buoy to make it more difficult and strengthen my arms or legs.

    ETA - I also find I am hungrier after swimming for some reason than when I lift weights or run


    Regarding the feelings of hunger I used to find having a hot drink afterwards helped a lot.
  • snowflake954
    snowflake954 Posts: 8,399 Member
    I do aqua-jogging once a week as a low impact alternative to running, I get hungrier after doing that than I do running for the same length of time, I've always wondered if it was to do with the water (it's something like water is x800 denser than air which is why it's so difficult).
    I've always just timed myself on the average time it takes me to do 5k, count the number of times I can get across the breadth of the pool (as I found out the first time, aqua-jogging the length of the pool doesn't work if your feet can't touch to floor of the pool!!!)
    and improve on the number of times I can make it back and forwards.

    I wear contacts and am rather blind without them so front crawl/freestyle I've never really learned to do properly and breast-stroke just doesn't increase my heart-rate enough!!

    My son is blind without contacts, but ordered perscription goggles from an eyewear shop and loves them for swimming--they were around 16 Euros.

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