Hey Everyone!
I've noticed that it was so much easier to loose weight with running, as opposed to swimming. It seems even though i'm swimming hard, the 13 or so pounds that I need to loose haven't budged. When I was running, my diet didn't have to be really clean...in fact I ate pizza at least once a week, and found that it helped me during high mileage. During running, my weight was very low despite the pizza habit. While swimming makes me hungrier, and I'm probably burning more calories per workout, the weight loss isn't there.
Why is this?
Thanks,
Jerrycat
Parents
Former Member
Originally posted by dulfin
can you tell me why during the swimming season my sister and I drank milk like we owned the cow?
Beats me.
I learned the other stuff because I noticed that proponents of different types of exercise and different diets seem to create their own individual mythologies to explain what's happening in the body, and the explanations were inconsistent and sometimes contradictory. Even on this site, I found discussions that would seem to make sense if swimming were the only type of exercise in existence, but which fell apart as soon as you tried to apply the same conclusions to other sports. But because people tend to stick with specific sports or specific diets once they've bought into a particular mythology and resist crossing into unfamiliar territory, the myths seem to be perpetuated forever.
I just kept reading and looking for explanations that made the most sense. I do that sometimes when I get a bug to learn about something.
Originally posted by dulfin
can you tell me why during the swimming season my sister and I drank milk like we owned the cow?
Beats me.
I learned the other stuff because I noticed that proponents of different types of exercise and different diets seem to create their own individual mythologies to explain what's happening in the body, and the explanations were inconsistent and sometimes contradictory. Even on this site, I found discussions that would seem to make sense if swimming were the only type of exercise in existence, but which fell apart as soon as you tried to apply the same conclusions to other sports. But because people tend to stick with specific sports or specific diets once they've bought into a particular mythology and resist crossing into unfamiliar territory, the myths seem to be perpetuated forever.
I just kept reading and looking for explanations that made the most sense. I do that sometimes when I get a bug to learn about something.
