Thread: Swimming

If you want to lose weight, look at your diet. Cut out alcohol and wheat, and the results will be pretty obvious.

If you want to get fit, decide what type of fitness you want and then choose an activity.

Unless you do an insane amount of exercise, without a diet change, you are highly unlikely to lose weight.

I swam competitively at school. It is very good for toning, cardio etc, low impact if you have stuffed joints, but not likely to make you loose weight unless you swim for a couple hours a day.

Originally Posted by ebf

If you want to lose weight, look at your diet. Cut out alcohol and wheat, and the results will be pretty obvious.

If you want to get fit, decide what type of fitness you want and then choose an activity.

Unless you do an insane amount of exercise, without a diet change, you are highly unlikely to lose weight.

I swam competitively at school. It is very good for toning, cardio etc, low impact if you have stuffed joints, but not likely to make you loose weight unless you swim for a couple hours a day.

Exactly, without a clean diet your not doing a great deal to lose the gut bag. swimming will get you swimming fit, running will get you running fit, cycling will get you cycling fit.
Cross fit will get you everything fit, its the most insane all over body and lungs workout I have ever been involved with. I am very running fit, but my first cross fit class nearly killed me.

Originally Posted by oneshot

Cross fit will get you everything fit, its the most insane all over body and lungs workout I have ever been involved with. I am very running fit, but my first cross fit class nearly killed me.

Yeah, but you have to join a cult and post cross fit pictures on Facebook constantly so probably not for me.....

Originally Posted by Spudattack

Yeah, but you have to join a cult and post cross fit pictures on Facebook constantly so probably not for me.....

The trick is to get your missus addicted to cross fit so she ends up looking like this, then when you take her hunting she will carry the meat and piggy back you out the bush at the same time.

Karate and judo ( classical, not this new age girly shit!) been doing those for pretty much 30 yrs - will get you fit as fuck and keep you there, and they will keep you tough so you are more resilient and cope better with dumb stuff, got 25 years on some of the guys I hunt with and can still carry more weight over a longer distance and go up long nasty hills faster!. The real key to maintaining good condition is to never let it go in the first place, allways so much harder to get it back.

You would be suprised just how good skipping with a rope is for an overall workout, just 5 minutes a day will do at first.

Originally Posted by 257weatherby

Karate and judo ( classical, not this new age girly shit!) been doing those for pretty much 30 yrs - will get you fit as fuck and keep you there, and they will keep you tough so you are more resilient and cope better with dumb stuff, got 25 years on some of the guys I hunt with and can still carry more weight over a longer distance and go up long nasty hills faster!. The real key to maintaining good condition is to never let it go in the first place, allways so much harder to get it back.

You would be suprised just how good skipping with a rope is for an overall workout, just 5 minutes a day will do at first.

I like the rope idea. Certainly is convenient and it will get a good sweat on.

Originally Posted by kiwijames

I like the rope idea. Certainly is convenient and it will get a good sweat on.

As gay as it sounds , don't over do the skipping in the beginning . Skipping seems to bring on Shin splints . They take ages to go away

Any exercise will improve your fitness in proportion to the effort you put in.
You can swim or run or walk slowly and not get a lot of benefit from it.
If you include a portion of exercise that elevates your breathing rate and works you hard then you'll get more benefit.

My example is myself. I aqua-jog for 30 minutes most days with a 60 minute aqua exercise class once a week.
I am fitter, stronger and lighter than I would be without the exercise.
My primary benefit is improved joint strength - knees and ankles - from non-impact exercise.
The aqua exercise class works on muscle toning especially in the core (aka tummy) area.

You get out what you put in. Any exercise is better than none. Changes to diet will help too.

I have been doing some pilates with the wife recently, it hurts so should be good.
My general fitness is lower than usual but not terrible. Im as much wanting to retain flexibility and core fitness as much as maintain overall condition.

+1 for banging the mrs that's how I keep my weight and fitness to a reasonable level oh and bush walks

You sure that's not @SAVAGE just the hair cut fits?

I try and swim a bit, mainly for surf paddle fitness, I also started a 25 min body weight workout. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HOx8-HoT7hs

They have a heap of exercises for free, the 25min does the job so far. I am for low impact exercise now, years of running pavement and flat landings on the snowboard have given my knees a thrashing.

Hi Kiwijames,

When i was addicted to surfing (like i am with hunting now) i used to swim before work, motivation was a trip of a lifetime to Indonisia, I started on my own and used to do reps, 4 lengths freestyle then sprint hard out for one length and then a slow breaststroke back, i would do 12 reps (72 lengths), I then moved pools due to job and fell into a swim squad, full of kids from 15-18, i ended up in the fast lane for most of it and either chasing or being chased by a little 18yr old girl can be very motivating LOL, length count went up 3 fold. While i didnt loose lots of weight i did change diet slightly and gained some small wings lol, at the end of it i was able to surf longer in indo and had way better fitness than my mates and was surfing prob 3 times a day for up to 2-3 hours at a session with no probs, when we came back i did a few of the Sovereign ocean swims.

Was fun, but alas i no longer look good in my budgies

Hamish