How and how much you need to swim to lose weight — effective types of swimming and tips

Many of us believe that swim­ming in the sea will burn a lot of calo­ries and you will be able to come back slim from a vaca­tion. Is this real­ly so and how much do you need to swim to lose weight?

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Do not place high hopes on vaca­tion time! To get rid of a few kilo­grams dur­ing the hol­i­days is pos­si­ble for those who not only swim a lot and at a fair­ly fast pace, but also do not lie on a deck chair on the beach, but sun­bathe, play­ing, for exam­ple, vol­ley­ball. And yet this does not mean that with the help of swim­ming you can not get rid of excess weight. Can! But first, let’s fig­ure out how and how much you need to swim in order to lose weight and get your­self in good phys­i­cal shape.

Effective types of swimming for weight loss

For those look­ing to lose weight through swim­ming, it is rec­om­mend­ed that you alter­nate between styles and inten­si­ty to help keep your mus­cles in a fat-burn­ing mode.

But­ter­fly con­sid­ered the most effec­tive for weight loss. But it is also the most dif­fi­cult style. You can’t do with­out spe­cial train­ing. Swim­ming but­ter­fly style, you pump the mus­cles of the press and thighs.

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Crawl — the most effec­tive for weight loss, as this style is con­sid­ered one of the most dynam­ic. Crawl helps to work out the mus­cles of the back.

Brass — the slow­est swim­ming style, but you can swim for a long time. The breast­stroke will get rid of excess fat on the legs, in the prob­lem­at­ic area for many women — the inner sur­face of the thigh. But on con­di­tion that you will do each push with your feet with max­i­mum force.

On the back – ide­al for relax­ing with­out inter­rupt­ing your swim. But you won’t be able to lose weight with it.

Swim in fins! By using them, you will burn more calo­ries!

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How much to swim to lose weight

Fat reserves, as you know, begin to burn out after 20 min­utes of intense exer­cise, there­fore, in order to achieve the effect of los­ing weight, active­ly swim for at least 30 min­utes. On aver­age, you need to swim non-stop from 600 to 800 m (begin­ners from 100 to 300 m).

By the way, it is believed that swim­ming in cool water helps to get rid of excess weight faster. But sci­en­tists have found that water with a tem­per­a­ture below 24 degrees stim­u­lates our body to accu­mu­late sub­cu­ta­neous fat. There­fore, experts do not advise those wish­ing to lose weight to swim in cool water for a long time. Accord­ing to them, the ide­al tem­per­a­ture at which it is eas­i­er to burn calo­ries is from 24 to 28 degrees.

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