Can swimming help people gain weight?

The weather is getting hotter, and many friends go to the swimming pool every now and then in the summer. Swimming can not only cool down the body but also help lose weight. However, you also need to pay attention to some things when swimming. The following editor will explain in detail some misunderstandings about swimming in summer to lose weight. I hope that my introduction will be helpful to you.

Summer swimming weight loss misunderstanding 1, in vain:

Standardized technical movements are the summary of many people's long-term experience and the crystallization of wisdom. Generally speaking, exercising according to standard technical movements is the most reasonable and energy-saving way of exercise. Breathing is a very important technique for swimmers. Some people don't learn how to breathe. When they do breaststroke, their heads are always above the water. Their neck and back muscles are always tense, which wastes their energy.

In addition, because the head cannot be submerged in water, the resistance of the body during movement will increase. Therefore, with the same amount of physical energy, an athlete with standard movements can swim 100 meters, while a person with non-standard movements can only swim 25 meters. In other words, swimmers with irregular movements are doing a lot of useless work, which will eventually affect their interest in the sport itself.

Summer swimming weight loss misunderstanding 2, wrong posture:

When people swim, whether they require the movements to be standardized or not depends mainly on the purpose of swimming. If you only swim once or twice occasionally, or go to the swimming pool to cool off when it is hot, it doesn't matter much whether your movements are standard or not. However, if you regard swimming as a long-term exercise method and hope to achieve the goals of fitness and weight loss, standardized movements are very important.

Through swimming practice, a person's cardiopulmonary function and muscle strength can be enhanced. If swimmers stick to the correct movements and strengthen them step by step, over time, the improvement in their physical fitness will be obvious. If the technical movements are not standard, the training objectives cannot be achieved, and the muscles that should be trained cannot be trained. This is what people often call "biased" training. For example, swimming mainly relies on the power of the legs. Increasing leg strength plays a key role in the effectiveness of exercise. But many people only focus on upper limb movements when swimming, and basically keep their legs still. This makes swimming not only difficult, but the legs that are supposed to provide power become a burden instead.

If you want to lose weight, you must be patient and persist for a period of time. The above content is a compilation of two misunderstandings about swimming in summer. I hope you can pay more attention to it in normal times. If you make such mistakes, you can correct them in time. The editor wishes you success in losing weight.