Swimming as exercise

Would swimming laps for a few hours everyday work as the only exercise? Not looking to bulk up, just lose stomach fat and firm up.

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Depends on how much you're eating.

>a few hours
good luck

I cook for myself so around 4-500 g of chicken/pork every day, but I consume junk food at the same time and drink energy drinks, which really stifles my weight loss progress.

I am gradually trying to cut out junk food, but for now I want to address my sedentary lifestyle by taking up swimming because gyms are gross and a hassle.

Pool lockerrooms are some of the most disgusting fungus filled places on Earth brev.

t. former competitive swimmer age 6 - 22

Well good thing I won't spend more than a minute there unlike gyms that smell and look abhorrent wherever you are.

yeah this. an hour can feel like an eternity if you're not conditioned, and he would know that if he had swam for yardage before.

although the normie "don't wanna bulk" and trim stomach fat comments has me thinking he will just quit in a week or two anyway before developing that conditioning

the "gyms smell" is one of the lamer excuses I've seen here

>firm up

I bet he will seeing all those men in their speedos.

I'm actually considering a pretty hard cut so I can do better on my PFT (pull ups crunches 3 mile run)

In order to lose weight you'll have to burn more calories than you eat. The time of swimming isn't as important as how much you swim in that time. There's a good progress program to train to swim a mile in six weeks:
ruthkazez.com/SwimWorkouts/ZeroTo1mile.html

Check that out. Cut the sugary energy drinks, maybe switch to a zero calorie alternative (monster).

Swimming won't bulk you, but will bring you some strength and improve your heart, lungs, and general endurance like mad.

Also, consider buying some swimmer's shampoo and body wash. I swam competively for a long time, and that chlorine is a fucking biiitttcccchhh man. The shampoo and body wash is designed to strip some of those pool chemicals from you. It's not perfect, but it does help. Maybe consider a swim cap too.

If you find you need to make your workout harder, buy some "drag shorts." They are like baggy shorts full of holes that drag water and slow you down and make it harder to swim. You wear them over your jammers or speedo.

>few hours
Clearly you've never been swimming
After a few laps you'll be fucking gassed

Quality advice. Being an ex competitive swimmer, do you still regularly swim as a form of exercise? Do you feel that it's enough as the only exercise or do you do incorporate something else too?

Coming from european background I used to swim in rivers for hours, obviously not as form of exercise but entertainment, so this is where my assumption is coming from. Obviously I'm not saying I will be able to pull hours of swimming, but I think I can manage to stick to a routine exercise.

This guy is right. Swimming a few hours at a time takes some serious dedication to work up to. When I swam competitively, I swam two hours in the morning and three in the evening, but I had worked up to it for months.

Consider your limits and adopt a program like the one I gave so you can work your way up to 1-2 hours at a time.

I don't swim anymore because the only indoor pool in town (moved to a city of 80K people) costs $70 a month. It's a gym and pool and courts, but it's a little steep when all I want is a pool.

>just lose stomach fat and firm up
Normie get of my board REEEEE

Oh, and I would incorporate some weights if you can. If you don't want to lift seriously, that's cool. But learn some basics, squat deadlift bench press, and build some strength. They'll help in swimming and make you feel better overall.

When swimming, practice on your form. It'll make it easier and make sure you're able to get a good work out.

Whoa how am I normie if my stomach has a layer of raw fat from eating cheesy chips and drinking energy drinks