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How much differnece will swimming make?

post #1 of 30
9/29/07 at 11:56am
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so i recently joined a new gym, and am swimming laps 3 days a week, and also doing cardio - eliptical:recently had ACL surgery.....how much toning is this going to do? i'm currenty at a 32-33 inch waist, but love handles have got the best me. will the swiming help lose fat? i don't want to gain anymore muscle mass...thanks!
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post #2 of 30
9/29/07 at 12:13pm
It won't really burn fat, it will just burn calories. If you maintain a caloric deficit then you will lose weight.
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post #3 of 30
9/29/07 at 2:20pm
I think we need to just have a sticky about "I'm doing this this and this, will I lose weight/fat/etc" and remind everyone weight loss = calories in < calories out
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post #4 of 30
9/29/07 at 2:39pm
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Originally Posted by MatthewTH View Post
i don't want to gain anymore muscle mass...thanks!

sha--buh... huh?!

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calories in < calories out

This gets misconstrued too often. Dudes say, "Well, I didn't eat anything yesterday, and I rode my bike for 4 hours, so that means today I will be 5 pounds lighter!"

I've got friends who go into so-called caloric deficits of thousands every day and are still fat. Why? Because they're killing their metabolism with drawn out cardio and no food intake. When your body is starving, it'll pack on fat like whodini packs in the sausage if given the chance.
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post #5 of 30
9/29/07 at 2:51pm
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This gets misconstrued too often. Dudes say, "Well, I didn't eat anything yesterday, and I rode my bike for 4 hours, so that means today I will be 5 pounds lighter!"

I've got friends who go into so-called caloric deficits of thousands every day and are still fat. Why? Because they're killing their metabolism with drawn out cardio and no food intake. When your body is starving, it'll pack on fat like whodini packs in the sausage if given the chance.

Ya it would obviously need more clarification but I don't tend to think about not eating because I do quite a bit of it.
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post #6 of 30
9/29/07 at 4:21pm
If we just stickied all the information people needed, and somehow people read it, then there would be no posts in this forum and I'd be more bored.
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post #7 of 30
9/29/07 at 6:30pm
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If we just stickied all the information people needed, and somehow people read it, then there would be no posts in this forum and I'd be more bored.
+1.

That, and it's always fun to make fun of obese people thinking they could get a 6-pack in 12 weeks.
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post #8 of 30
9/29/07 at 9:50pm
Why most of us believe that exercise makes us thinner—and why we're wrong. (New York Magazine)
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post #9 of 30
9/29/07 at 9:53pm
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This article is a contender for the Captain Obvious award of the year. Thanks for encouraging me to waste two minutes of my life that I'll never get back.

When you exercise you get hungrier? Are you fucking serious? No way.
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post #10 of 30
9/29/07 at 10:12pm
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This article is a contender for the Captain Obvious award of the year. Thanks for encouraging me to waste two minutes of my life that I'll never get back. When you exercise you get hungrier? Are you fucking serious? No way.
Try and keep a lid on that roid rage
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post #11 of 30
9/30/07 at 2:14am
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Try and keep a lid on that roid rage

Heh. I'm mostly annoyed at dangerous fluff articles that could prevent people from living healthy lifestyles.
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post #12 of 30
9/30/07 at 4:41am
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Originally Posted by drizzt3117 View Post
This article is a contender for the Captain Obvious award of the year. Thanks for encouraging me to waste two minutes of my life that I'll never get back.

When you exercise you get hungrier? Are you fucking serious? No way.

I only read the last paragraph, but I'm in complete agreement here.

P.S. I just got home from binge drinking because I did sprints this morning. Gotta keep those calories up!
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post #13 of 30
9/30/07 at 5:36am
Yes, it's obvious in a way, but the oversimplified calorie deficit model of weight loss that the article addresses is still widely believed (see Eason's post). Of course the calories in/out model is true to a certain extent, but it doesn't consider the body fighting tooth and nail against calorie-burning to maintain a steady weight.
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post #14 of 30
9/30/07 at 5:49am
The calories in/out model is true, period. Whatever your expenditure is for a day, as long as you're taking in at least 1600 (for a male) or 1200 (for a female) and burning more than that, you will lose weight. Sure it helps if you're getting 8 hours sleep and drinking 64 oz of water a day, but you're certainly not going to gain weight, so I'm not sure what technicalities you're grabingm at.
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post #15 of 30
9/30/07 at 5:55am
Fairly terrible article. Author's explanation on why exercise doesn't make a big impact on weight loss is that people tend to over-eat after they exercise - this is a cultural thing not a biological thing. I'm going to assume the author is American (it is a NY Times article). I'm going to assume he eats American food/portions. Then it would be fairly obvious he eats a lot of food. Just because you're hungry doesn't mean you have to eat. However, not eating won't promote weight loss. Re-Learning to balance hunger and food intake is what most people need to lose weight and exercise is an important part of it. Measuring what you eat might seem extreme for some people but these days I'd say it is justified.
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