Just wanted to see if anyone here has noticed a significant change in their swim times after losing a decent amount of weight (at least 35 or 40 pounds). Did you notice minor time drops or major time drops after you lost the weight? Or did your times stay the same?
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I have been doing weights for a while and it helped my legs and arms, I actually set myself back with my abs. At my last visit to my doctor in January I whined to him about my inability to lose around the waist. He took a look and asked what I had been doing in the way of ab work. I told him 3 sets a day on the ab crunch machine at 80 pounds positive, 113 negative resistance. Guess what? I was making my stomach BIGGER because I was doing the exercise wrong. It became a cycle, my stomach got bigger, I did more reps, my stomach got bigger....you get the idea. At his recommendation, I stopped using that machine and I lost another 1.5". Now I'm doing some limited floor work-very carefully with regard to position. He also suggested going back to swimming-took me 3 months to get up the nerve to put on a suit though.
I have been doing weights for a while and it helped my legs and arms, I actually set myself back with my abs. At my last visit to my doctor in January I whined to him about my inability to lose around the waist. He took a look and asked what I had been doing in the way of ab work. I told him 3 sets a day on the ab crunch machine at 80 pounds positive, 113 negative resistance. Guess what? I was making my stomach BIGGER because I was doing the exercise wrong. It became a cycle, my stomach got bigger, I did more reps, my stomach got bigger....you get the idea. At his recommendation, I stopped using that machine and I lost another 1.5". Now I'm doing some limited floor work-very carefully with regard to position. He also suggested going back to swimming-took me 3 months to get up the nerve to put on a suit though.
