weight loss

Excellent article, Julia! :applaud: Thanks for sharing. I am so glad you liked it! Thanks for all your support :)

Old thread, but good thread. I guess I just wanted to add my perspective... I swam my senior year in HS ('99). I remember initially being frustrated because my clothes began to fit tighter, and I was hungry ALL THE TIME. And then, woosh, the weight fell off (and I was still eating a lot). With that in mind, I just started swimming again on my own, hoping for similar results. I think running can burn more calories in a shorter amount of time, but (for me at least) swimming is more pleasurable. I can spend an hour or longer in the pool steadily swimming, and still feel like I don't want to leave. If you aren't modifying your diet, I think that means you have to work out longer, harder to actually see results, and personally I can only sustain that long of a work out w swimming. This is a good short article on the calorific differences between running and swimming. www.livestrong.com/.../

Great article. I have never been a good runner, and frankly, my joints protest when I try to run, so I walk. I know plenty of runners who've had to quit past age 55, but have not ever heard of a swimmer quitting past 55 because their knees or hips gave out. Then I look at the bodies of people who do both. I would much rather look like a swimmer. I found this article, which is pretty amusing. swimswam.com/.../ When I hear that people gain weight swimming because they get hungry and wolf down whatever they want, I throw my hands up in the air and say, "dude" or "dudess." Anyone who knows about basic nutrition and exercise in any form will tell you diet is 90% of it. I'm guilty of not restricting my calories enough, but when I swim regularly I'm likely to eat clean and lose weight.

Ideally, swimming can and should aid in weight loss, but as with any other sport, you still need to be mindful of what you eat. I actually wrote an article recently discussing 10 common misconceptions about swimming, and the weight loss issue is #1! www.swimspire.com/.../

Hey all, I'd love to hear personal weight loss due to swimming success stories! I'm working on an article for Swimmer Magazine on the subject. If you or anyone you know has lost 10 or more llbs swimming and healthy eating shoot me an email kzjenna at gmail dot com! If you have tried to lose weight swimming but it just doesn't work for you, I'd like to hear from you, too! drop me an email! thanks! Jenna

if your trying to get your leg muscles more involved get some short training fins . i swim one length just with my arms then switch to my back and swim back using only my legs. for me this has the added benfit of letting me breath normally on the length back and can be done for hours.

greg27, I need to forward your post to the woman swimming in the lane next to me this morning. She had pretty fancy fins and wasn't moving her legs at all, just gliding along. She was swimming slower than me, which takes some effort. :bolt:

Ideally, swimming can and should aid in weight loss, but as with any other sport, you still need to be mindful of what you eat. I actually wrote an article recently discussing 10 common misconceptions about swimming, and the weight loss issue is #1! www.swimspire.com/.../ Thanks for the article! I finally got to read it (for some reason is wasn't opening at first).

Hey all, I'd love to hear personal weight loss due to swimming success stories! I'm working on an article for Swimmer Magazine on the subject. If you or anyone you know has lost 10 or more llbs swimming and healthy eating shoot me an email kzjenna at gmail dot com! If you have tried to lose weight swimming but it just doesn't work for you, I'd like to hear from you, too! drop me an email! thanks! Jenna When I started swimming my weight was 235 lbs. I currently weigh 173 lbs. No diet, no running, no weights, no bicycling. I only swim.

Hey all, I'd love to hear personal weight loss due to swimming success stories! I'm working on an article for Swimmer Magazine on the subject. If you or anyone you know has lost 10 or more llbs swimming and healthy eating shoot me an email kzjenna at gmail dot com! If you have tried to lose weight swimming but it just doesn't work for you, I'd like to hear from you, too! drop me an email! thanks! Jenna I am a little over a month getting back into swimming. I swim a mile (alternating between all swim strokes except butterfly, kickboard, and hand paddles), and I don't watch my calories. I haven't lost any pounds on the scale, but people have been asking me if I've lost weight. My arms are smaller as my blazers are fitting better in that area. This is similar to what happened in High School (1999) when I joined the swim team. I held onto my weight (per the scale), was bloated in the stomach (pants fit tighter), but overall appeared thinner. Then about three months into training the weird bloating went down and I lost tons of weight in what seemed like overnight.