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
So no one wants to conjecture about whether or not more kicking will help more with weight loss? After all, the leg & butt muscles are bigger muscles. Help help - I really don't want to learn to run!
In my opinion you would burn fat kicking by either long intervals of slow kicking (boring) or sets of fat burning tabata kicking sets - sets of 8 reps of 20 sec hard kick (~one length) followed by 10 sec EZ recovery kick and repeat 8 times. Do the sets of 8 reps with 1-3 min of recovery sw between each set. Not sure how many sets one could hold up to. We do about 8-10 tabata sets spinning in 60 min., and im dead, but im guessing half that number of kicking would produce a pretty big burn and help your sprint kicking. Not sure why I never thought of this and will have to try it next week.
So no one wants to conjecture about whether or not more kicking will help more with weight loss? After all, the leg & butt muscles are bigger muscles. Help help - I really don't want to learn to run!
In my opinion you would burn fat kicking by either long intervals of slow kicking (boring) or sets of fat burning tabata kicking sets - sets of 8 reps of 20 sec hard kick (~one length) followed by 10 sec EZ recovery kick and repeat 8 times. Do the sets of 8 reps with 1-3 min of recovery sw between each set. Not sure how many sets one could hold up to. We do about 8-10 tabata sets spinning in 60 min., and im dead, but im guessing half that number of kicking would produce a pretty big burn and help your sprint kicking. Not sure why I never thought of this and will have to try it next week.
