>start a couch to 5k program
>last three days
>running fricking sucks, big surprise
>go to local pool
>say I’m gonna swim a 300
>swim a 500
>realize I have nowhere to be and that wasn’t so hard
>swim 9 more 500s
>i have swam a 5k
>proceed to do this 3x per week for two months (combined w/ diet) and lose 40lbs
>no joint soreness
>building core and upper body meat as well as legs
Swimming btfos running in every possible way, I’m sorry homies.
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Some fat idiot is going to try this and drown because a 17 year old dyel lifeguard can’t save them lmao
That person is going to be me.
I believe in u anon <3
I was 6’3” and 225, my bmi was like 28.something with is bordering on moderately obese but I didn’t really feel obese so take that with a grain of salt I guess, lel.
I took breaks and shit, swimming a 5k took like two hours but it absolutely beat the shit out of running.
I have a good skincare routine, my hair is godly, and my brother in allah you’re not supposed to be gargling the water.
Fat "people" can not drown in a pool. They just float. Now on the context of drowning in a pool and swimming. You all should be aware that a tall East Asian, as in over 6 feet tall, has the highest chance to have the optimal swimming build of all races. The problem is that finding an East Asian over 6 feet tall in and of itself is harder than Caucasians and Blacks. East Asians have a low bone density compared to Caucasians and Black folks. They also have stubbier legs and a wide torso compared to Caucasians and Black folks. Those are all traits that give an advantage in swimming. The reduced bone density makes you more buoyant. Black folks have it the hardest with swimming in that they have longer legs to torso ration and have the highest bone density.
Yeah this is why I swim in chlorine less.
Whether he gets fit or drowns, it's one less fatty.
honestly embarrassing to brag about you just learning full body workouts are better regardless of how old you are
Would you call running a full body workout? Actually what is another full body workout other than like, rock climbing?
> Would you call running a full body workout
No, you fricking moron. No wonder you just discovered swimming.
No need to be a dick, buddy.
I thought you were defending running.
Name some other full body workouts, swimming and rock climbing excluded.
CrossFit doesn’t count.
climbing is all forearms and core tbh, you don't need strong legs at all for it, maybe just enough body awareness to be able to do a pistol squat
Pool water damages your skin, ruins your hair, and decays your teeth. Not worth it.
Go swim ur 5ks in the ocean dawg.
you're gonna get eaten by a pack of tuna, bro
You posted this in the other thread aswell.
>decays your teeth
https://myacare.com/blog/swimming-and-dental-health-possible-side-effects-and-prevention
Just trying to get the word out. People think swimming in a chemical bath for thousands of hours is harmless.
It's self-evident that chlorine fricks up your skin and hair (always rinse your face with cold water before taking a hot shower) but didn't know about teeth. Good to know. Thanks brah.
>Decays your teeth
ayo, dis homie out here trya eat pool water, lmao
water with chlorine only smells like chlorine when there is piss in it, otherwise its odorless
well that explains why it always smells like chlorine after I hit the pool
I’ve maintenanced/ maintained pools before.
You put those big ass chlorine tablets in the water.
They’re what smell like chlorine.
You’re a goofball, anon.
Few seems to know this. The smell is entirely tolerable until you mix in all the literal human piss that low IQ normgroids freely expel in the shared space. Then it transforms harmless chlorine water into horrid sulfuric-like substance of terrible smell and acidity to the skin and hair. You truly cannot have nice things and normgroids simultaneously. But there are spaces in which nice things can exist due to the superior will of some and the ignorance of normgroids. good luck on coming across such a pool.
Not quite.
is right about the chlorine smell. It's subtle when it's diluted enough, but it's still there.
Typical 'Swimming pool smell' comes from urea in piss releasing ammonia. Which reacts with the chlorine and makes chloramine. Which is why dirty bastards need to go to the toilet and shower before getting in the pool.
Thank you, I was gonna reply and say exactly what you did but I wasn’t going to waste the energy on that anon and his room temp IQ.
(:
Go swimming, bros.
I’m about to start an insane cut because I’ve got school off until the 24th of next month and I can afford to be tired.
Gonna eat my vitamins, protein powder and water, and swim a 5k every day that it isn’t raining.
I’m gonna speedrun getting these last 20~ish lbs of fat off, wish me luck. I’ll probably make a thread about it or something .
picrel is me currently. I don’t have a before swimming photo but I did get a body scan at my gym, I’ll see if I can find a pic.
Shit was rough my bois
after swimming
before swimming
I’m kinda worried about what the gym does with this scan data though, this rustles my tin foil hat.
What fricking gym gives you scans of your body?
thanks for posting your scan data here, I'm saving it for the daily DYEL thread
there is also urea in sweat that causes this, so it's not necessarily urine
Are you getting lean? I want to be ottermode so bad bros. No doubt I'll have to revert to bearmode soon after but just once... Is swimming and fork putdowns my only hope?
Yeah. The muscle that’s being built isn’t pure gainz like from weightlifting, I’m becoming toned (thin layer of meat all around).
Swimming is how you become ottermode, why else would they call it that? It’s a swimmer bod, b0ss.
Swimming and fork put downs is the way to go.
I like swimming and long walks because the more time something takes, the more time I’m busy and can’t eat.
Based. I'll keep at it but such a long way to go.
every time I see this idiot I think about him stuffing socks in his pants to fake a bulge and also how fricking fat he got before he died
He was a raging alcoholic and irl shit poster. Also a leftoid but in his time I understand the utility of such a belief.
That's just skinny. Your chest, shoulders and trips will blow up with swimming and you won't end up looking like that at all. You can remain a skinnygay by undereating, but your fizeek will still 'gravitate' towards that.
Hell, wouldn't even call Jim a leangay since that implies *some* amount of muscle mass that's being peawienered through the leanness.
Pic rel is more representative of a leangay. While Iggy started swimming a frick ton after moving to Florida in the early '90s, his fizeek isn't as chest-heavy as the swimmers I know. I'm talking about average kids who swim a frickton but have no morphological aptitude for the sport otherwise.
Don't really know of anybody famous with an actual otter fizeek.
>inb4 olly swimmers
I'm too much coward to go to the pool alone.
I go alone. It’s fine, homie.
Nobody really cares.
If your pool gets super full they might try to lane split, but that’s just extra incentive to keep moving.
Go give it a try, man.
Just swim a 300. That’s six laps, there and back.
See how it feels.
Unironically dip your toe in the water, haha.
This is the first step to your weight loss journey.
Swimming and fork put downs combined are unstoppable.
>Unironically dip your toe in the water, haha.
what type of autism is this
Social anxiety, ya dingus.
Fear of drowning
Same. Needs to be a tism time like some supermarkets have.
Every fatty should take the swimpill. You can have a 280 lbs couch ham swimming 1-hour balls to the wall workouts in a week tops.
They can also keep up with leangays of similar skill level. What other sport would allow them that freedom? Table tennis? lmao
That said, rooning gets significantly more enjoyable once you lose the blubber.
No one would argue against that, OP. Running is just more accessible since you can just walk outside your home and start running.
I don't know how to swim, but I've been interested in picking it up for a while. how long would it take to learn to get to a level where I could use it for my main cardio workout?
Not that long. As soon as you learn to not panic and keep yourself above water the rest is mostly just practice/ repetition.
Probably within a week or two of learning how to swim.
But I learned when I was a child so I might be wrong, if anyone that learned as an adult wants to chime in, go for it.
People learn how to swim in 10 seconds it’s just not panicking and learning how to stay afloat
All the public pools are way too overcrowded to actually swim 10m let alone 100. Jesus, frick. Set so gosh dang adult hours or something.
Some public pools have lanes, anon.
you needed to do a c25k program....meaning you couldn't even run? yet you can swim a 5k easily? I don't believe you. Unless you were there for 6 hours swimming at literal snail pace.
Running sucks wiener and yes, I was at the pool for a long time.
I didn’t swim at a snail’s pace but I did take breaks.
Y’all are acting like this is impossible, but that’s my point.
Swimming is not hard at all.
how do you even swim slowly lol
he didn’t say he couldn’t run he just said it gets btfo’d by running, work on your reading comprehension buddy
>couch to 5k
Literally forr people who can’t run
>Whoops I accidentally swam 100 lengths
No you didn't you fat homosexual stfu
>100
if it was an olympic sized swimming pool sure. More than likely this was a 25m pool. so 200 lengths for rock star OP
more like 200 donuts for fatty mcgee OP
fatties unironically have an advantage in swimming in that they float way more easily
It wasn’t on accident, it took like two hours. I took breaks, but I wanted to get to the 5k marker.
Your reading comprehension isn’t the best, my friend.
This anon has it right.
Meh, not OP but i could always just swim despite being shit at all other cardio and being overweight. I was never particularly fast but i would forest gump it and just keep swimming.
A fellow gumper.
What’s up my buddy? I’m gumping it through 90% of life as is.
It’s easier when you just accept it.
How do people swim for more than 2 hours? My body sponges up by the 1.5 hour mark. I can't imagine doing more than 2 hours of swimming daily. I've done around 40 minutes to an hour daily for 2 weeks once and my skin and hair were noticeably taking damage too.
I’ve never really noticed any kinda sponging/ swelling. As long at the water isn’t warm I don’t get prune-y or anything.
My biggest issue with swimming for as long as I do is getting bored. Sometimes I try to read some philosophy or something to ponder while I swim, or I eat a 500mg edible.
My tolerance is fricked though I wouldn’t advise anyone to do the latter.
>Sometimes I try to read some philosophy
I know what you meant but this gave me the image of you doing backstroke while reading a book and I had a sensible chuckle
Not gonna lie I read about these bone conduction headphones that work under water pretty well and I considered an audiobook.
It gets v boring if you’re boring.
I'd get distracted and die using those
>skin and hair were noticeably taking damage too
Black person this is why we wear those goofy looking swimcaps. As far as skin goes, you can pre-soak in a shower/bath for 5 mins and apply lotion after your post-swim shower
frick swimming, there are sharks everywhere
They’re my friends 🙂
As long as I keep tricking new people on the internet into getting into the water every week, we’re cool and they leave me alone.
EVERYWHERE
Cool
Where is the part about shoulder problems?
>inb4 feet injuries
You can mitigate with high cadence that you can learn in an evening
I’ve broken both of my collarbones (one pretty recently) and my right shoulder blade, and I also dislocated my left shoulder insanely badly twice, both times I had my gf wrench it back into place while I bit something.
Swimming has actually helped my mobility greatly and doesn’t cause any of my old injuries to “flare up” or anything,
Ty swimming.
>It's harder to do weight-based exercise when you are a lardass
Wow Anon you are a genius! How did you figure it out?
Trial and error.
Have you finally figured out how to breathe through your nose yet?
I can only breathe through one side 🙁
Done day at a time, my buddy.
One day at a time.
IF YOU ARE READING THIS GO ASSESS YOUR LOCAL OPTIONS FOR SWIMMING IT IS FRICKING RADICAL
JUST LOOK IT UP AND THINK ABOUT IT
Holy cope you didn’t even swim 1k let alone 5k if you can’t last three days on c25k
Swimming is king, thats why all the old people do it. I used to be a die hard runnergay but my tarsal coalitions started acting up pretty bad and I cant run anymore
Anyone got recommendations on underwater headphones?
I dig it because it’s not hell on my joints.
Joint pain sounds like it blows and if I can avoid it, yea dawg.
I also dislocated both kneecaps several times while skating as a teen.
It’s to the point where I just shove it back in immediately and relocate it, but I still have to stay off of it for six weeks.
All I am doing is saving myself a trip to the ER.
It hasn’t happened in a long time but it makes you feel sketchy about your legs
I have cubital tunnel syndrome in both arms and got nasty pain when I tried swimming. Will paddling my feet with a swimboard provide cardio? It's all I can think of.
Does it raise your heart rate?
I’d imagine you’d have to go pretty hard in the paint to burn equivalent calories to running and that’s a hilarious image to me.
But yeah it counts as a lil’ bit of cardio.
How does that condition affect your lifts?
I can't lift lift or do cardio because my joints are fricked from arthritis and my muscles are fricked from fibromyalgia. I did it 2 plate before my health went to shit though.
Swimming seems to be most obvious answer but the cubital tunnel is too much. I'm also considering the rowing machine but I'd have to be careful with that too. I'm willing to do the kickboard or any other cripple exercises to at least do something.
Well then surf’s up, my guy
Kickboard away~
try to do sidestroke or CSS, maybe it won't hurt your arms