First off I'm new here and this is my first post so if this question has been answered on a different post, sorry.
I come from a bodybuilding background and recently started swimming and liked it so much that for the summer I'm forgoing lifting for swimming. I've been swiming four times a week now for about four months and I've lost about 8 lbs - as far as I can tell it's all body fat. My question is, can I build muscle mass by just swimming or will I just be reducing body fat? Also is it possible to burn muscle? In other words could some of my weight loss be muscle loss? The reason I ask is that a couple of my friends have told me that my back is getting broader - I haven't really noticed.
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This was covered in another recent thread...seemed to be that the conclusion was that swimming is low resistance - high rep. so a lifter should probably lose muscle, while maintaing or building those that are used for swimming...hope I got that right.
When I started seriously swimming, I didn't have muscle and I was a "fat boy", and I ate and swam a lot and I didn't see weight loss, but I did see muscle gain. Changing diet AND swimming did it for me! :banana:
The muscle gain has been pretty constant and based on my specific training routine I feel the different muscles getting great workouts and then I see the results later on!
This was covered in another recent thread...seemed to be that the conclusion was that swimming is low resistance - high rep. so a lifter should probably lose muscle, while maintaing or building those that are used for swimming...hope I got that right.
When I started seriously swimming, I didn't have muscle and I was a "fat boy", and I ate and swam a lot and I didn't see weight loss, but I did see muscle gain. Changing diet AND swimming did it for me! :banana:
The muscle gain has been pretty constant and based on my specific training routine I feel the different muscles getting great workouts and then I see the results later on!
