It's GOAT and a great complement to liftan', but if you pursue swimming as a tool to develop your fizeek you need to be smart about it. Else it just becomes plain ol' cardio.
Meme that keeps being spouted by non-swimmers. Baseball and tennis also work "your whole body" (ie they don't).
It doesn't work your legs in any significant way. Even sprinters have borderline DYEL legs.
Or rather, legs aren't important for anything other than stabilization so people purposefully neglect training them in any way that's conducive to hypertrophy.
You could in theory legmaxx but you would have to find a way to do it safely. Too much front crawl kicking will lead to ankle hypermobility.
underrated
mitochondrial multiplication slows aging
it's an insane invisible gain
if you look at ex-pros or ex-competitors, even the old women have tight bodies that make them look 30yo (without looking at their faces)
Majorly underrated. Just as a skill you should know it. If not for else, then for not fricking drowning in a minor accident when a basic human skill could've saved your life.
Swimming gives men the best possible bone structure if practised during teenage years.
For over 21 years old, it's good cardio (low impact, high calory use) but the bone structure gains would take years and years (if there would be any at all).
Some bad things about swimming: many swimmers have asthma due to exposure to chlorine. Also chlorine ruins you hair over time.
And "low impact" is not necessarily good for your bones, as a bit of repeated impact on the cartilage might actually help maintain it when aging.
That's true about bone density. Olly swimmers have the lowest bone density of all olly sports (still about 15-20% more than the average pop). Then again swimmers benefit from lighter bones so there might be a chicken-egg dilemma at play.
And you can frick up your shoulders in all sorts of ways, even with great technique. With bad technique it gets worse. Flare-ups of elbow tendonitis are common among recreational try-harders. Humans are not built for swimming and it shows. Compared to an otter, we're like hairless apes thrashing in the water trying not to drown.
If you want to be 100% safe I'd keep the swimming to 1hourx3 per week at whatever pacing is enough to work you up but not kill you. Forget about yardage and all the sweaty bullshit.
Diminishing returns my Black person. Any muscle that's accesory to a style will adapt quick and see no noticeable gainz.
You can use drills and doodads to pseudo-isolate stuff, but it's terribly inneficient. >yeah brah imma dolphin kick 400x5 every day so I can get a sick six-pack for summer, 2026
Yo, is that why I have fricking asthma? I basically lived at the pool every day during the summer growing up. My brothers didn’t really go to the pool and none of them have asthma. Wtf
Potentially. Maybe. Unfortunately it's something that the general public don't really realise, but the literature is pretty clear on the fact that swimming in chlorinated pools increase your risk of developing asthma. Not sure about adults though, I think it's mostly if you do it as a kid and teenager, and if you do it quite a lot.
we do, but chlorine is the most cost effective. There are also pools that are cleaned with UV light every night, but I guess that is also not particularly effective (what happens during the day?).
>Some bad things about swimming: many swimmers have asthma due to exposure to chlorine. Also chlorine ruins you hair over time.
ive spent thousands of hours in a pool and these are non issues
yes, a correlation does not imply that everyone will get it. I know plenty of people that used to swim, myself included, and we did not develop any asthma. Hair damage is likely more noticeable in old people or people who swim without a cap
It works your whole body.
It's GOAT and a great complement to liftan', but if you pursue swimming as a tool to develop your fizeek you need to be smart about it. Else it just becomes plain ol' cardio.
Meme that keeps being spouted by non-swimmers. Baseball and tennis also work "your whole body" (ie they don't).
Cope and seethe fatass
https://marathonhandbook.com/what-muscles-does-swimming-work/
Get the frick out of here, you never exercised once in your life.
Anyway... four dollars a pound.
good for what?
Me
what is your goal?
It's intensive cardio that doesn't wreck your joints like running can. Plus it works your legs and back pretty well
It doesn't work your legs in any significant way. Even sprinters have borderline DYEL legs.
Or rather, legs aren't important for anything other than stabilization so people purposefully neglect training them in any way that's conducive to hypertrophy.
You could in theory legmaxx but you would have to find a way to do it safely. Too much front crawl kicking will lead to ankle hypermobility.
you can do kick sets of breaststroke kick but yea you're not going to get big
underrated
mitochondrial multiplication slows aging
it's an insane invisible gain
if you look at ex-pros or ex-competitors, even the old women have tight bodies that make them look 30yo (without looking at their faces)
Majorly underrated. Just as a skill you should know it. If not for else, then for not fricking drowning in a minor accident when a basic human skill could've saved your life.
Swimming gives men the best possible bone structure if practised during teenage years.
For over 21 years old, it's good cardio (low impact, high calory use) but the bone structure gains would take years and years (if there would be any at all).
Some bad things about swimming: many swimmers have asthma due to exposure to chlorine. Also chlorine ruins you hair over time.
And "low impact" is not necessarily good for your bones, as a bit of repeated impact on the cartilage might actually help maintain it when aging.
That's true about bone density. Olly swimmers have the lowest bone density of all olly sports (still about 15-20% more than the average pop). Then again swimmers benefit from lighter bones so there might be a chicken-egg dilemma at play.
And you can frick up your shoulders in all sorts of ways, even with great technique. With bad technique it gets worse. Flare-ups of elbow tendonitis are common among recreational try-harders. Humans are not built for swimming and it shows. Compared to an otter, we're like hairless apes thrashing in the water trying not to drown.
If you want to be 100% safe I'd keep the swimming to 1hourx3 per week at whatever pacing is enough to work you up but not kill you. Forget about yardage and all the sweaty bullshit.
Diminishing returns my Black person. Any muscle that's accesory to a style will adapt quick and see no noticeable gainz.
You can use drills and doodads to pseudo-isolate stuff, but it's terribly inneficient.
>yeah brah imma dolphin kick 400x5 every day so I can get a sick six-pack for summer, 2026
Yo, is that why I have fricking asthma? I basically lived at the pool every day during the summer growing up. My brothers didn’t really go to the pool and none of them have asthma. Wtf
Potentially. Maybe. Unfortunately it's something that the general public don't really realise, but the literature is pretty clear on the fact that swimming in chlorinated pools increase your risk of developing asthma. Not sure about adults though, I think it's mostly if you do it as a kid and teenager, and if you do it quite a lot.
You'd think after all these years we'd have a better way of cleaning pools than fricking chlorine.
we do, but chlorine is the most cost effective. There are also pools that are cleaned with UV light every night, but I guess that is also not particularly effective (what happens during the day?).
yes, a correlation does not imply that everyone will get it. I know plenty of people that used to swim, myself included, and we did not develop any asthma. Hair damage is likely more noticeable in old people or people who swim without a cap
>swim without cap
Hair destroyed by chlorine
>swim with cap
Hair destroyed by traction alopecia
Swimmers dilemma
Fabric cap, then silicone/latex on top.
>Some bad things about swimming: many swimmers have asthma due to exposure to chlorine. Also chlorine ruins you hair over time.
ive spent thousands of hours in a pool and these are non issues
wtf is going on with this little feller's hand?
it’s someone else’s hand and he isn’t little
1. I'm pretty sure he's smol
2. After further analysis I stand by my original conclusion that it IS in fact his hand in question (holding the award).
Swim a few laps and come back.
GOAT cardio, just don't expect to put on muscle mass with swimming alone though.
It's good cardio. But it's not good for anything else.
I'm more of a runner myself, but the best cardio is the cardio you'll continue doing so. If it's fun to you, then do it. Don't skip on cardio.
It’s your retirement exercise right after you’ve think you’ve found your maximum weight.
The retirement exercise is maximum weight -1 until you reach zero, at which point you die.