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How effective is swimming for burning fat? Does it help with gaining muscle?
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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.0 -
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.
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