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
I've lost 59.5 or 60 if you want to round up with swimming being my primary cardio. I don't mean to say it was ONLY swimming. I swim 1 hour 3 days a week but I also kickbox and strength train and take yoga classes. However, swimming has still been primary. I've followed WW and the combination worked well for me. I started out just swimming for exercise and now I'm actually going to try a meet this year and bring up the rear for fun. :)
I have to agree with the calories in vs. calories out. I know there's more to it than that, but essentially if you burn more than you take in you will ultimately lose. At least it works that way for me.
I've lost 59.5 or 60 if you want to round up with swimming being my primary cardio. I don't mean to say it was ONLY swimming. I swim 1 hour 3 days a week but I also kickbox and strength train and take yoga classes. However, swimming has still been primary. I've followed WW and the combination worked well for me. I started out just swimming for exercise and now I'm actually going to try a meet this year and bring up the rear for fun. :)
I have to agree with the calories in vs. calories out. I know there's more to it than that, but essentially if you burn more than you take in you will ultimately lose. At least it works that way for me.
