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Swimming..

ksparkby
ksparkby Posts: 28
edited February 21 in Fitness and Exercise
How effective is swimming for burning fat? Does it help with gaining muscle?

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  • ashenriver
    ashenriver Posts: 498 Member
    If you swim properly it helps with increasing your strength (which is very different from muscle gain which you will not do eating on a deficit)

    All that is required for weight loss is a calorie deficit.

    Swimming increases the calories burned in a day, so as an exercise if you enjoy it, do it. It also depends on the effort put in, someone swimming with a high effort for 50m is going to burn more calories then someone lazily swimming the same distance.

    Swimming is an excellent full body, low impact exercise.
  • ksparkby
    ksparkby Posts: 28
    If you swim properly it helps with increasing your strength (which is very different from muscle gain which you will not do eating on a deficit)

    All that is required for weight loss is a calorie deficit.

    Swimming increases the calories burned in a day, so as an exercise if you enjoy it, do it. It also depends on the effort put in, someone swimming with a high effort for 50m is going to burn more calories then someone lazily swimming the same distance.

    Swimming is an excellent full body, low impact exercise.

    Great, thanks!
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