How swimming can help you lose weight and stay stronger

What comes to your mind when you think of the word ‘swimming’ or ‘swimming pool’; Michael Phelps charging himself and winning another gold in Olympics or the moments where you go, dwell and dive into the nearest lake or swimming pool with your friends. Whatever it may be, you’re much familiar with this sport at least for any of these reasons. Perhaps some may have heard it right that swimming is a ‘good exercise’ too.

In fact, swimming is considered one of the best exercises as it enables to move all cardiovascular muscles, builds endurance, keeps the heart rates up and maintains a healthy body weight. According to Stacy Caprio, a former swim coach and Red Cross water safety instructor; “Swimming is one of the best activities you can do to tone and slim your entire body.” As mentioned, swimming is highly recommended if you are in the playground of losing ‘uncomfortable’ extra weight. This blog will guide you the best practices on how swimming help you lose weight and moving ahead by leading you to stay stronger.

So here are the 3 upmost benefits of swimming with respect to body weight lose or reducing the body weight:

1. Swimming actions to burn body calories
   Alike all other cardiovascular exercises, swimming too forefronts the battle of burning your calorie. Why do we need to burn calories to lose weight? The simple answer is that it is the calories which is stored in your intakes (food & beverages) helps you gain weight. Conversely to lose weight, you need to burn them more than you take.

Whereas the calories that gets burned out of swimming is far higher than any other sport or game. Studies say:

• A 30 minute freestyle torches around 400 Calories (400 Kcal) whereas the same 30 minute brisk walking burns just 100 Calories.
• same 30 minutes of breaststroke torches 387 Kcal when running at 10 Km/h burns just 300 Kcal.
• Swimming (front crawl) is at forefront by torching 488 Calories

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Hence we get a better picture on how swimming leads in the action of burning calories thereby helping to lose your body weight.

2. Total Body Workout
   Since swimming is an exercise which involves the movement of major body muscles, the workout tends to heat-up the entire body part which gradually help you stay stronger thereby increasing body stamina.
3. Reduce Belly Fat
   Since swimming is a full-body workout, it can definitely help you lose belly fat. There are few tips and techniques which you can execute while getting trained or swimming from swimming pools

How to start and practice swimming to lose body weight?

• “Better to start early than finish late”; but here there’s a good news. You don’t need to start rigorously. Just start taking your swimming session thrice a week for just 30 minutes per day
• Gradually change this to 4 times a week with the same duration.
• Slowly start covering the four length of the pool with a maximum of 25 breaths for each length (25 yards *4 times). A break after 2 lengths can be undertaken.
• Start accelerating at a moderate speed and covering 4 lengths without break
• Continue to accelerate the speed at a faster pace in the next week and cover 4 lengths without any break or halts.
• Try practicing different styles as different style has different calorie burning potentiality and all must be taken into consideration while swimming.

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