Okay, I am doing pretty well at 500 yards - I am not winded or out of breath at the end of the workout.
My pool is closed for the next week and a half for cleaning (the whole YMCA shuts down).
When I go back, I was thinking about doing two 750 yard swims 6 days a week. How does this sound for fat burning and toning?
Good idea or not?
Thanks!
Best,
Chris
Originally posted by Bohemian
When I go back, I was thinking about doing two 750 yard swims 6 days a week. How does this sound for fat burning and toning?
To be perfectly honest, 750 yards isn't nearly enough. Your swimming workouts need to be a minimum of 30 minutes, and probably ideally one hour, to get much benefit in terms of fat burning. Not to say 750 yards isn't a step in the right direction. If that's all you can do right now, that's fine. Just try to keep building it up. Obviously if you're swimming for an hour you can't swim the entire thing all-out. The majority of your workout should be at aerobic pace (try to maintain a heartrate around 150 bpm). You can add some faster swimming for the rest of the workout to evelate your heartrate up to 180 or so.
EDIT: oops, I see you want to step up to TWO 750 yard swims per workout. How long will that take for you? I'm guessing it might be close to 30 minutes which I think is getting into the lower limit of where you need to be to start getting some real benefit.
Keep it up! You don't need to step it up all at once. Just take it slow and keep adding a little at a time.
Originally posted by Bohemian
When I go back, I was thinking about doing two 750 yard swims 6 days a week. How does this sound for fat burning and toning?
To be perfectly honest, 750 yards isn't nearly enough. Your swimming workouts need to be a minimum of 30 minutes, and probably ideally one hour, to get much benefit in terms of fat burning. Not to say 750 yards isn't a step in the right direction. If that's all you can do right now, that's fine. Just try to keep building it up. Obviously if you're swimming for an hour you can't swim the entire thing all-out. The majority of your workout should be at aerobic pace (try to maintain a heartrate around 150 bpm). You can add some faster swimming for the rest of the workout to evelate your heartrate up to 180 or so.
EDIT: oops, I see you want to step up to TWO 750 yard swims per workout. How long will that take for you? I'm guessing it might be close to 30 minutes which I think is getting into the lower limit of where you need to be to start getting some real benefit.
Keep it up! You don't need to step it up all at once. Just take it slow and keep adding a little at a time.
