Swimming is especially good for people who are overweight. After all, it reduces the load on the spine, allows you to perform any exercise and tightens the muscles. Swimming for weight loss is suitable for people of all ages.
How to swim to lose weight
There are a number of tricks that can help you lose weight quickly and painlessly while swimming. The most effective swimming technique for losing weight can be called a crawl. He tightens the abs, tidies up the arms and legs, straightens the spine. During crawl swimming, you can lose up to six hundred calories per hour. And, for example, swimming on the back gets rid of unpleasant problem areas on the sides.
A successful swimming workout should consist of several alternating swimming methods, while it is desirable to alternate between relaxation and active load. For example, to start, you can warm up by free swimming, then crawl for fifteen to twenty minutes, then lie on your back, then repeat the entire sequence two or three times. To calm and relax your muscles at the end of your workout, it's best to do a little brace or backstroke.
The pool is disciplined. It is in it that it is easier to concentrate on training, and not just admire the surrounding nature, lazily swimming along the coast, as is often the case in natural reservoirs.
How much and how often to swim
Swimming is best done two or three times a week for at least forty-five minutes. Such a schedule will not lead to the build-up of excess muscle tissue, but it will help get rid of excess fat.
A swimming workout that lasts forty-five minutes means that for forty of them you are actively swimming in any style, and not lying still on the surface. Warm up on the “shore” before entering the water. This will keep your muscles more conditioned. If you swim five or six hundred meters quite easily, do aqua yoga or aka aerobics for weight loss. Swim in warm water. If the water is cool, you need to swim until you begin to freeze. Because after the onset of freezing, the body will go into fat accumulation mode to fight the cold. Do not eat immediately after training. There should be at least two hours between swimming and eating, otherwise you will only gain weight.
Swimming burns a hundred kilocalories more than running at a moderate pace.
One of the best additional effects of swimming can be called hydromassage, it helps to tighten the skin and generally improve its condition. If you swim in the sea, then your skin gets all the necessary trace elements and salts.
