I overheard some ladies talking yesterday and instructing their kids not to get in the ocean. Here are two of their reasons: 1) they just had lunch and lady said you'll get cramps, you can't swim for an hour, and 2) your face will turn to scales while food is in your stomach.
Later, a young woman was advising me on my newest problem, leg cramps, and she told me it was impossible for me to get leg cramps because I wasn't sprinting. She said that leg cramping is caused from dehydration and only a person who sprints will get dehydrated; not distance people, so she suggested I see a doctor.
We all know these are pretty ridiculous, have you overheard anyone advising others about "their myths?" The people making these comments were from England.
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It's incredibly frightening that 40% of Americans are 100 pounds overweight. I don't see it where I live. Lotta runners around here. They must eat junk food 24/7 to put on the kind of poundage. People are just not that naturally overweight.
Sedentary lifestyle and more calories consumed than burned. One need not eat junk food or be in a constant feeding frenzy to be obese.
When we go to practice we float up and down and splash around ...
Sprinters have it easy ... if you belive this I'll give you some sprinter workouts to change your mind
What a joke myth! Sprinters work very hard and endure painful workouts! Quality sprint workouts wear me out much faster than a lot of garbage yardage.
Distance workouts are hard too, don't get me wrong. I tried to do one yesterday and got about halfway through a pyramid and said "forget this" because I felt my stroke falling apart!
Quality not quantity is my motto
Myth - You can't lose weight swimming.
NOT TRUE! When I quit swimming in college, I gained quite a bit of weight. The only way I took it back off was when I got back in the water!
I like the myths:
If you are a Triathlete don't kick so you can save your legs for the bike and run...
You only have a set number of heart beats, you are wasting them by exercising.
and...
I'm too tired to exercise. Of course the more you exercise the more energy you'll have.
the whole "swimming doesnt help you lose weight" is most likely true for the average Joe, who really doesnt know how to swim. He/she either swims so slow, that they really dont get a work out, doing a 25 in a minute is basically standing still, or the stroke is so poor that they get so tired churning away in the water for a few laps they can't do it for more than 10 minutes. humans were not designed to swim, whereas running (and by extension biking) is pretty natural for us. anyone can get out and run/walk on a regular basis without a real learning curve. you can't do that in a pool.
Losing weight with swimming depends on whether you're vessel shaping or engine building.
Here's another myth: All flyers are loud. I know a patent lawyer and rocket scientist that are amazing flyers and they are rather quiet people.
But I want to know why I am so hungry after I eat carbs but not protein; I'm starving an hour after any pasta dish.
My suggestion is to read articles regarding the GI ---Google "Glycemic Index".
Here's a very brief excerpt from one such article:
High-GI foods raise blood-sugar levels more quickly than low-GI foods do, and they're associated with diabetes risk. Research is also finding that these foods tend to increase hunger and make us want to eat more of them. As a result, we consume too many extra calories, which get stored as fat. In addition, elevated blood sugar triggers the release of insulin, which furthers the storage of calories as fat. Some experts believe that this mechanism at least partially explains why we currently find ourselves in trouble with obesity and type-2 diabetes in American society. These conditions also have consequences that threaten to undermine the gains we've made in preventing heart disease through a healthy lifestyle.
I like the myths:
If you are a Triathlete don't kick so you can save your legs for the bike and run...
You only have a set number of heart beats, you are wasting them by exercising.
and...
I'm too tired to exercise. Of course the more you exercise the more energy you'll have.
Bill, :rofl::rofl::rofl:
Poor swimmers take more effort to swim therefore burn more calories, therefore lose weight faster thean a good long vesselled swimmer.
Yes, but good swimmers work out longer and therefore burn more calories.
the whole "swimming doesnt help you lose weight" is most likely true for the average Joe, who really doesnt know how to swim. He/she either swims so slow, that they really dont get a work out, doing a 25 in a minute is basically standing still, or the stroke is so poor that they get so tired churning away in the water for a few laps they can't do it for more than 10 minutes. humans were not designed to swim, whereas running (and by extension biking) is pretty natural for us. anyone can get out and run/walk on a regular basis without a real learning curve. you can't do that in a pool.
Poor swimmers take more effort to swim therefore burn more calories, therefore lose weight faster than a good long vesselled swimmer.
anyone can get out and run/walk on a regular basis without a real learning curve. you can't do that in a pool.
Here's another myth but because it wasn't about swimming, I left it out of my myth group. I can't walk nor run due to medical constraints, but I knew what you were saying here Art Z, that most people can, wish I could.
:p
Yes, but good swimmers work out longer and therefore burn more calories.
that's not necessarily true. A very effortless swimmer willnot burn many calories.
