Why don't more people swim recreationally
It literally improves the quality of life with zero downside, if for nothing else it makes your sleep better which gives you more testosterone and health.
Why don't more people swim recreationally
Why don't more people swim recreationally
It literally improves the quality of life with zero downside, if for nothing else it makes your sleep better which gives you more testosterone and health.
Not convenient enough. I also don’t like being in chemicals too often. It doesn’t seem very good for my hair or skin. It would be real nice if I lived near the ocean and could swim there. But I still probably wouldn’t as I’m afraid of sharks. I prefer running anyway tho
I prefer running
also is right
not convenient and swimming in chemicals too often isn't ideal.
How bad is chlorine for you if you swim 3 times a week?
https://www.health.com/side-effects-of-chlorine-on-your-body-7494539
I don't swim often so, but I usually get mild skin irritation.
It hasn't killed me yet and my pool's overchlorinated as frick. Going 3 years strong.
ALWAYS shower afterwards. First take a cold shower to rinse as much of that shit as possible and only then turn on the hot water. After drying up moisturize your face and neck. Or full body if you're a gay.
My coach seems to be doing fine and he's been swimming at this pool for 15 years or so. He's in his early 40s and looks his age face-wise.
It's obviously not ideal but it is what it is. For me it's either this or being a fat frick.
Shower with just water or the full shower gel treatment?
No soap for the rinse then it's just a regular shower. I never use soap or gel on my face but that's just how I've always showered. I tried a very mild glycerine soap on my face when I started swimming but it just made my skin super sensitive and generally felt 'off'. YMMV.
You shouldn't be worried about chlorine itself. When it reacts with our dead skin cells, with our shit, with our pee, with our skin fat, it produces a shit ton of very harmful chemicals, including gases you shouldn't inhale. There are reasob why professional swimers get cancer so often and why many swimming pools swit h to the sea salt. There are reason why you sjould take a good shower before going to the swimming pool, beside hygiene. Unfortunately, no showel will clean you completely.
Op is is a moron for posting such dumb take without putting a single throught ibto it.
i swim 3 hours every day
no pool nearby
pool too expensive
I got a shoulder injury from swimming last year.
Holy frick just take a shower afterwards you autistic dorks. Literally rinses the chlorine right off your skin and you’re golden. I did swimteam for the better part of a decade and still swim and the chlorine has literally never been an issue. There’s literally chlorine in tap water anyways, the teensy extra bit you get from swimming an hour or two a day isn’t gonna give you cancer. If it’s really that big of a deal to you just pay a little more to swim at some fancy saltwater pool.
I have an extreme chlorine allergy. I get bright red and can't see or breath proper for a couple days if I use a chlorinated pool.
me personally, i did competetive swimmfor 7 years and have grown a resentment for it
That's understandable, it's like doing software shit for a hobby and then getting a job in it and it starts to suck.
Pools are nasty.
I have shitty ear canals from a lifetime of swimming so I get swimmers ear really easily.
It's actually because I sneak into your room every night and dribble piss into your ear
I thought urine was sterile
Not when you have gonorrhea
It isn't.
Patches o’houlihan is a fricking liar then
I don't know who that is, but I guess he is.
Swimming is the fastest way to lose body fat, next to straight up fasting. Your body needs to maintain its temperature, and this takes massive amounts of energy.
If the water is like ten degrees celsius below your body temperature, it's constantly robbing your body of calories. It's like a mild form of cold exposure that you can do for prolonged periods of time.
The main factor in expending energy in swimming is not the physical exertion (how hard or fast you swim) but the temperature of the water and the TIME you spend in it.
So if you can swim slower but last longer, you'll expend so much more energy and lose more fat.
Interesting. I was about to ask if it's a preferable cardio to running without taking into account injuries etc
>Your body needs to maintain its temperature, and this takes massive amounts of energy.
This is true but cold water swimming makes you hungry AS FRICK.
I don't get hungry from swimming in a heated pool or any other forms of cardio, no matter how 'hard' I go. But after spending an hour doing frick all in a cold pool I'd suck off Michael Phelps for a large pizza (no homo).
Minmax this by going swimming at least 24h fasted. Be in ketosis and your body will only have fat to burn to keep your temperature up. Wait for some time too before breaking your fast after swimming.
>fasted swimming
This is catabolic as frick. Don't do this unless you're a DYEL landwhale desperate to lose weight ASAP. Frick even then the benefits are dubious.
Pools are full 24/7. I tried literally every possible time of day. First it's the old people, then athletes, then school children, then teenagers, then families, then athletes again.
Also, it's fricking expensive.
I just run, I can do that without having to deal with boomers.
There are two gyms with pools near me. Both are over priced and their gyms are small and shitty and their pools are small and dank and gross and one of them is the YMCA so it's also full of homos. The other is at a hospital and full of fats and cripples.
Thinking about taking up open water swimming, but the bay near me is kinda gross too sadly. I'd just swim at the beach but it's a bit farther away.
Used to swim all the time growing up though, had a super nice athletic center a short walk from my house, fricking miss that place. Had full size indoor and outdoor pools and a proper diving pool, besides everything else. And there were no Black folk.
Actually I was wrong, the indoor pool was only 25 meters. Also just read they tore it down some years ago and now there's just some shitty apartment complex in its place. ): So many good memories there, especially summers in the 90s.
Oh well, the whole town has gone to shit for the past 20 years anyway.
https://communityimpact.com/houston/news/2014/03/11/the-woodlands-athletic-center-2/
im balding, should i swim?
Only pool I have regular access to is the gym. I went on a swimming craze for like a month about 2 years ago. Reason I stopped is because the pool only has 3 lanes and everytime I want to use it there’s a bunch of old people who hog the lanes for like an hour at a time. That, plus I’ve watched them blow snot rockets into the pool too many times to even want to use it anymore.
I've been swimming for 3 years and am a lifelong runner, but despite a pretty consistent workout schedule I am still being blown out of the water by the 12 and 70 y/os at my gym. In speaking with swimmers, it seems they feel the same way about running, so are we destined to just hate the other sport?
I easily get into the 160+ BPM range with running but struggle to get above 120 swimming. I think it's because going higher means more shoulder work, and I have already been injured twice, so I am not sure if it is worth the risk.
>I am still being blown out of the water by the 12 and 70 y/os at my gym
If these are just random 12-y-os then you must be doing something seriously wrong. If they're swimcels then yeah, that's just how it is. Swimming is 90% technique.
What's your 100m?
>bum shoulders
I'd give fins a try but they might frick with your ankles if you're a rooner.
Have you tried breast stroke? It's pretty forgiving on the shoulders. The kick does put a good amount of stress on your knees though, unlike flutter.
I'm not a great swimmer so I accidentally swallow water. I'm scared of getting cancer from ingesting chlorinated water.
Besides that swimming is the best exercise there is.