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swimming?tone up?

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  • 05-07-2008 1:59am
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    pfk-0p
    Closed Accounts Posts: 46 ✭


    will swimming help me to tone up a bit more i like it and looking at it as a substitute to weights


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    Clseeper
    Registered Users Posts: 282 ✭✭Clseeper


    Depends on what you need to do? Muscle gain or fat loss? Toning is a mixture of both. You need to get a low enough body fat to be able to see the muscles and then the muscles' themselves need to have good definition.

    Swimming will help on the cardio side, and long distance sessions will reduce your body fat percentage. It will tone the muscle definition a small bit as well but nothing near as well as the weight training. Weight training is resistance training, you are forcing your body to artificially adapt itself to be able to lift a heavier weight. Swimming is somewhat opposite. A lot of your body weight is actually supported by the buoyancy of the water so you're not directly pulling your whole body weight.

    So no, swimming is not really a substitute for weights training but is a very good complementing fat loss exercise. You'll know what you need more of, muscle definition or weight loss.


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