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∙ 13y ago
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∙ 13y agoHi!
Swimming is a great cardio exercise. You can lose and lot of weight and gain muscle in its place. Many people do cross-training as well, meaning that outside of swimming they usually go to the gym or lift weights. Swimming is a wonderful exercise for the body.
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∙ 8y agoSwimming exercise is excellent for overall fitness. Aerobic endurance, power, strength, and flexibility are all enhanced by swimming exercise.
It is generally gentle on the joints and provides excellent cross training for running and other gravity-intensive forms of exercise by providing load-bearing joint rest.
However, training must be specific for the anticipated environment, including cold water acclimatization. This section will give you the tools to improve your swimming skills, thus enhancing your fitness for related swimmer events.
You must primarily train for endurance while preserving the significant power and strength required by other phases of any event you are participating in.
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∙ 10y agoActually swimming is an excellent workout that works out your whole body and does a great deal of good for your overall well-being. One workout is featured at: www.military.com/swimming/workouts.
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Swimming for 10 to 20 or 30-plus minutes non-stop is good general exercise, and it will help you increase your speed and strength from a baseline level. However, without including some form drills and swim sets with rest in between intervals, you will plateau in speed and fitness in just a few weeks.
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∙ 13y agoLong distance.
NO. It doesn't have to be a long distance. It can be a very short distance but you can swim many laps. It really doesn't have to a long distance.
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∙ 12y agoSwimming could be both aerobic, and anaerobic. It is usually aerobic. This is because it uses major muscle groups, and you usually swim for long periods of time without stopping.
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∙ 13y agoAquatics
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What makes swimming an effective form of exercise?
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Is boxing the best source of exercise?
Boxing is certainly great exercise, but there is no best form of exercise.
Is it correct to say do exercise referring to physical exercise?
Yes. When you are asked to exercise it means anything from walking, jogging, running, aerobics, bicycle riding, swimming, etc. These are considered to be a form of physical exercise.
An aerobic exercise done in water?
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Is running the best exercise?
Yes, it train whole body, even on the cellular level. It burns most calories and its addictive. It depends on what you are trying to achieve. Running is much harder on your body than walking and it is not sustainable long term. Therefore, for many people, cardio walking, or just ordinary walking, is a better form of exercise. Swimming is also a very good form of exercise.
Why is swimming not recommended to prevent osteoporosis?
Mechanical stress and gravity help to promote skeletal remodeling. Swimming is notconsidered a weight-bearing exercise. The water, not bones, supports the body's weight whileswimming.Swimming is not recommended to prevent osteoporosis, as it is not considered a weight-bearing exercise.
Does swimming help osteoporosis?
Since swimming is a form of exercise, it helps, but not all that much by itself. Good nutrition and supplements paired with swimming is a better way of preventing osteoporosis. Any form of weight lifting paired with swimming would also help since lifting puts more stress on your bones, which stimulates bone regrowth.
What exercise tones abs?
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Do you agree swimming is the healthiest form of exercise?
Yes, I think it's probably the best, or at least one of the very best. To my knowledge no other single type of activity provides the type of complete and balanced work-out swimming does. Virtually all muscles are used during swimming, the water presents resistance, so you get a balance of both cardio and strength training. The reaching motion also stretches your body somewhat. The only deficiency of swimming is that it's not weight-bearing. The only other activity I know of that might provide more complete conditioning is rock-climbing, but that has it's disadvantages: more equipment is needed, and it's much more potentially dangerous.
Why is running the best form of exercise?
cause it tones the whole body.
How many calories would you lose if you run up and down the stairs?
You can consume as many calories as you like, depending upon the amount of time that you spend doing this exercise. But it may not be the best form of exercise for you, since there is a chance of falling and injuring yourself. Running on level ground is safer than running up and down stairs. Swimming is lots of fun and terrific exercise. There are lots of ways to exercise.
