hey there! I used to compete when I was younger but I have gained weight since then and would love to use swimming to slim down. Swimming is my cardio of choice. My goal is to participate in a Swim a Thon in April 2005. I haven't been on a team or trained lately (since I was 11)....so I am not familiar on how to do intervals with the clock and all that stuff. Anyway...can you guys help me out? Thanks.
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I talked with a dietitian over the wek end. She said that exercise alone won't cause weight loss in many people. She said that peole begin almost naturally take in more calories than befoe the began working out. It is somewhat of a survival mechaism. I think that is truly interesting. She said that weight loss is so individual that things that work for one person don't usually work for another. Also, I watched the CNN special again this weekend. I think that it is very interesting that most people think that heavy people don't know what to do to loss weight. Most who I know are experts. In this show there is a woman who says that peole cant yell at her into being thin.
I have just the opposite problem. I am always very skinny. I try to gain but nothing hapens. I probably eat around 5,000 calories a day.
Also, when it comes to raising your heart rate, if you get in to water & swim , your rate will increase. However, after many workouts, your heart rate won't increase as much. that's why you need ot do intervals whenre your rate will drop between intervals-or so I've been told.
I talked with a dietitian over the wek end. She said that exercise alone won't cause weight loss in many people. She said that peole begin almost naturally take in more calories than befoe the began working out. It is somewhat of a survival mechaism. I think that is truly interesting. She said that weight loss is so individual that things that work for one person don't usually work for another. Also, I watched the CNN special again this weekend. I think that it is very interesting that most people think that heavy people don't know what to do to loss weight. Most who I know are experts. In this show there is a woman who says that peole cant yell at her into being thin.
I have just the opposite problem. I am always very skinny. I try to gain but nothing hapens. I probably eat around 5,000 calories a day.
Also, when it comes to raising your heart rate, if you get in to water & swim , your rate will increase. However, after many workouts, your heart rate won't increase as much. that's why you need ot do intervals whenre your rate will drop between intervals-or so I've been told.
