 Swimming and muscle tone
Helloooo... I just have some questions regarding swimming and a form of exercise. I'm aware that its a really great form of cardiovascular exercise and good for muscle tone, although I'm not too sure on how much to do.
some background on myself: i enjoy running/jogging but i can't do it as much as i would like to because it can start to hurt my knees. also the top half of me doesnt really do anything so i dont really have any upper body strength. i also find it hard to fit into my daily routine of going to uni, and i dont really like going the gym because i think its boring and im not interested in becoming huge anyway. I recently (as in about a week ago) started swimming before uni and i find this fits in great with my daily routine and i feel every part of my body getting used i really like it.
At the moment i'm only swimming like 500 metres because I'm just dont have the endurance and upper body strength yet. I'm aware its very early days at the moment and I'm fine with paying my dues and I don't plan on adding on extra laps until i feel i can do it comfortably (for lack of a better word) while still pushing myself. I'm planning on doing this 4 days a week and theres no foreseeable reason why I can't.
I'm obviously planning on building up the distance eventually, but my question is this: if i was to swim about 2km/1.2mile (eventually) 5 times a week would this be sufficient to achieve good upper body strength and muscle tone (read: swimmer's body).
any comments/suggestions would be really appreciated thanks a lot
Last edited by dandyvision; Sep. 04/08 at 10:45 AM.
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