Are the way you stroke with your right arm supposed to be semetrical with the way you stroke with your left arm, because I stroke in a different pattern with my left arm than with my right, I suppose that's normal. Also is swimming considered an anerobic or aerobic sport or both?
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Originally posted by amber pigman
Also is swimming considered an anerobic or aerobic sport or both?
Back to the original question. The answer is both.
To elaborate just a bit without using a lot of scientific terminology which I learned in anatomy class: swimming is generally an aerobic sport, but at high intensity swimming becomes anaerobic. That is not to say that there isn't some overlap - swimming does not instantly go from aerobic to anaerobic in an all or nothing fashion. When I swim intervals I may exceed the aerobic zone while swimming, but my heart rate will most often return to the aerobic zone before each repeat.
Summing up:
easy, long, heart rate in the training zone - aerobic
short, hard. heart rate above the training zone (closer to max) - anaerobic
This is applied to swimming (or running). Weightlilfting is another matter.
Originally posted by amber pigman
Also is swimming considered an anerobic or aerobic sport or both?
Back to the original question. The answer is both.
To elaborate just a bit without using a lot of scientific terminology which I learned in anatomy class: swimming is generally an aerobic sport, but at high intensity swimming becomes anaerobic. That is not to say that there isn't some overlap - swimming does not instantly go from aerobic to anaerobic in an all or nothing fashion. When I swim intervals I may exceed the aerobic zone while swimming, but my heart rate will most often return to the aerobic zone before each repeat.
Summing up:
easy, long, heart rate in the training zone - aerobic
short, hard. heart rate above the training zone (closer to max) - anaerobic
This is applied to swimming (or running). Weightlilfting is another matter.
