Swim to Tone Up and Lose Weight
I swim breaststroke pretty well. I want to know how I can utilize it get maximum exercise so that I swim to tone up and lose weight. Is minimum strokes to go from one end to the other better or the more number of times I do the stroke, the better? I can manage to do both but the latter gets me tired sooner. I can manage to go from one end to the other in 3 strokes itself, but if I do the regular one stroke after the other with timed breathing it takes me 10-12 strokes.
If your main aim is to tone up and lose weight then we are talking about working your muscles and burning calories.
If you swim from one end of the pool to the other using the minimum number of strokes possible then you are not working your muscles hard enough to tone them up or to burn enough calories to lose weight.
Swimming the length of the pool using more strokes, burns more calories and tones your muscles and this is immediately evident in the fact that you get tired. Unfortunately when it comes to exercise and weight loss the old saying goes, it is pain to gain! It is therefore very important that you swim out of your comfort zone.
The biggest and most common mistake people make when it comes to exercise in general is that they do the same routine for too long. This then results in the body becoming used to the exercise and therefore it is no longer a challenge. Fitness and weight loss then plateaus and then people tend to give up.
Have you ever tried swimming a different stroke, maybe front crawl or backstroke? That would definitely take you out of your comfort zone and burn some serious calories. You don’t have to swim continuous lengths of a different stroke, just swim one length of front crawl for example for every 4 lengths of breaststroke.
That would be just enough to make you work harder and in a different way to how you exercise usually. The result: increased muscle tone and decrease body fat percentage. Just don’t fall into the trap of doing the same routine for too long.
When it becomes manageable then change it so that it becomes a challenge again and your results will continue to come.
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