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
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.
I'll find out this afternoon. :)
I wonder also, if it makes a difference if you use zoomers (not long fins) or go "naked" or not. I used to do set of 6 x 50 kick, descending interval - starting at 60 sec, dropping by 5 sec each one, until I was ~35 sec. But tabata sounds more like HIIT, which is actually kinda fun (I like to do 20 x 50 @ ~ 1:00 & mix it up with pull equip sometimes, sometimes paddles & fins, but usually just "naked" -- really breaks up a boring, solo workout).
So far today: weights at the gym. Home for yummi egg souffle. Soon, off to "Tree Top Tallahassee" - which is an awesome 3 hour zip line aerial thing that is a blast; then finish off with a nice swim. It's a beautiful day today & I'm going to take advantage of it!! Ya'll have fun mowing the lawn!
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.
I'll find out this afternoon. :)
I wonder also, if it makes a difference if you use zoomers (not long fins) or go "naked" or not. I used to do set of 6 x 50 kick, descending interval - starting at 60 sec, dropping by 5 sec each one, until I was ~35 sec. But tabata sounds more like HIIT, which is actually kinda fun (I like to do 20 x 50 @ ~ 1:00 & mix it up with pull equip sometimes, sometimes paddles & fins, but usually just "naked" -- really breaks up a boring, solo workout).
So far today: weights at the gym. Home for yummi egg souffle. Soon, off to "Tree Top Tallahassee" - which is an awesome 3 hour zip line aerial thing that is a blast; then finish off with a nice swim. It's a beautiful day today & I'm going to take advantage of it!! Ya'll have fun mowing the lawn!
