Exercise Tips - Is Swimming to Lose Weight Effective?

Swimming is sometimes of the most underestimatedher that I don't normally go swimming.
exercises you can do to help you lose weight. Yes ofShe told me that she goes swimming four times a
course swimming is effective to aid weight loss, here Iweek and does 60-70 lengths each time. She did say
share a little story.that she built up, over time, to do that many lengths as
Last month I hurt my ankle so I couldn't do my usualit is a lot. She said by continuously doing this every
stuff at the gym, so I thought I would go swimmingweek, she lost of 2 stone in weight and without hardly
instead. Swimming is gentle on all your joints so even ifchanging her diet.
you have a sore ankle just like me, then swimmingFor personal reasons, she said that she missed
won't aggravate your injury.swimming for the last few months and her weight
I'm not a very strong swimmer so I just took my timegradually all crept back on. So there she was again on
to do the lengths up and down the pool. I was gettingher road to lose her 2 stone again all by religiously
exhausted and many of the 'older generation' wereswimming 4 times a week for an hour or so.
swimming past me but this didn't bother me and I justSo yes, swimming is very effective to help you shed
kept on going, to swim for a full 30 minutes.those pounds, but it's just like every other exercise
When I got out the pool and back into the changingregime, you need to commit to it 3-4 times a week,
area, a woman started talking to me, very friendly sheevery week.
was. She said she hadn't seen me before and I told