Does swimming on the same day you lift weights, negate the results of the lifting session?
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No, it doesn't. Swimming after lifting weights is actually good. Swimming uses a lot of smaller muscles to balance your body. These muscles aren't often used when lifting weights. Swimming also helps with circulation feeding your muscles much needed blood and oxygen. I like to swim after lifting because swimming helps me to stretch out. My muscles don't feel as tired or tight if I swim after I lift.
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I work out in a pool, so that might present problems for you if you don't have access to a deep-water pool. It also takes extra time because of the changing clothes before and after. But I love it and would not do anything else. I'm in the water 3x a week for 60-90 minutes.  There's details on my blog.
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I used to go to the gym twice a day a while back. Was in the best shape of my life.\n\nIt's fine as long as you get plenty of rest and eat for enegy between workouts. Also don't do the same thing on both sessions.\n\nThe evening session has to be light (preferably cycling...something low impact).\n\nAlso remember resting your muscles is part of the process. When your muscles feel tight or sore, just relax and take the day off. You will come back stronger.
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It's ok to workout a few days in a row, as long as you are training different muscle groups each day. Do not workout everyday of the week, you need days off so the body can recover.\n                  good luck....
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Not actually, what the other person answered was correct for working out, but not for swimming.  The cold water (compared to the body's temperature) will prevent the body from burning the calories it would normally burn with the degree of workout swimming provides.\n\nSwimming tones and builds muscles-and especially the upper body-so the breast appear smaller because the underlying muscles (there are three pectoral muscles) are worked during swimming and the become larger.  This stretches the skin of the breast and spreads the breast tissue out over a larger area which gives the appearance of smaller breast.  Swimming will also attempt to remove any sagging that was present before.  Swimming will also give you an awesome set of gluts (butt) (again there are three gluts) You know, the cute little bottle butt. If you quit the boobs will come back.  Swimming is not a good exercise for loosing weight, but it is the best exercise possible to become/remain trim/muscular/toned.  Swimming uses every muscle in the body. It's the only exercise that does.
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When I was swimming in college, my coach told us to do lighter weights and more reps.   \nYou want to do exercises that will work the muscles that you use during the power part of the stroke.\nI swam the butterfly & concentrated on my triceps for the power push at the end of the stroke.  It would be pretty much the same for freestyle.\nDo anything that will work the muscles that you use when you swim. \n\n I would suggest swimming more during the week if you really want to improve your times.  The best thing to do is swim with the correct technique & do drills that emphasize different parts of that technique.
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Swimming is a better total body workout. By varying your swim workout with drills, you can get an equally strenous lower body work out swimming as you can in a spinning class. Swimming is an excellent workout for your core muscles and smaller muscles that lifting alone would be difficult to work.
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Assuming you are a female,  you won’t get broad shoulders, they will get toned which might make them look bigger but don’t worry about putting on muscle.  It doesn't sound like you are swimming hard enough or long enough to get really developed :)
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I do not think so, my personal trainer is a master swimmer who broke all the records at his college. He is an bodybuilder as well in very good shape. Check him out on my 360 (Brett) in the pictures that should prove to you that swimming will not restrict your muscle growth.\n\nIt should be noted that to much cardio will restrict it however swimming is a poor form of cardio, great for muscle tone and endurance but not for fat loose. If you want the reason why just message me with the subject so i now who youa are.
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Perspiration doesn't MAKE you lose weight or increase your cardiovascular health. It is just a by-product of the increase in your metabolism caused by the cardio workout. The water keeps a swimmer's body cool, but the heart is still working. If you think about it, the cooler water will even raise the metabolism further so that the body will respond to keep you warm. A swimmer's muscles are still working hard, as is the heart, so the body is doing everything it would do on land to achieve fitness. In terms of weight loss, you just need to burn more calories than you take in. If you are doing the work, that WILL happen!
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the thing with just having cardiovascular activity is--\nthe burn of calories happens only when activity is done...you stop burning once you stop the activity, whether its biking, running, or in your case, swimming. \nto be more effective in weight loss--i would recommend doing light toning weights (3 sets of 15) in a whole body workout, then doing cardio after weightlifting. This way, you are using short energy stores like glucose for the weight lifting, and are burning primarily fat during the cardio exercise. Also, weightlifting allows you to burn calories (as the muscle repairs) even after you are done with weight lifting, so you can still be burning calories 8-12 hours after your weight lifting session. \n\nAn additional way to lose some lbs--is by eating 6 small meals over a day, instead of 3 larger meals. The quantity is the same, but you space it out over more increments for a higher boost in metabolism. Hope this helps.
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If you are asking if taking a break during your usual work out...then the answer is a break is fine.\n\nIf you're asking if you can skip a day in between work outs, sure. It's ok to exercise only three or four times in a week.  Your body needs time to rest. \n\nAlso, if you're doing strength training don't do the same exercise every time. Your body gets use to it and it's usually less productive.  Do a certain series of exercises one day, then the next time you work out do another. That was the information I was given as well.
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what you want is NO...not NO2 lol =]\n\nincreased blood flow does have its pros...a lot of people say NO is just for pumps but if you have more blood flowing to your muscles, then more oxygen can get to your muscles.  so, based on that, it would seem like you would be able to crank out a few more reps each set...which would be great for gains.  also, increased blood flow also helps in the bedroom =]
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Yes, when doing weight training, starts with the major groups of muscles. Do pull-up, bench press, row, squat. You are right man. For aerobics like running and swimming, do at least 15 min of warm-up, you are right again man.\n\nHowever, there are many variations, and it is pretty hard to do a standard routine here by answering to thousands of this kind of questions (perhaps they should buy a book and do some reading first) As a fitness trainer myself, I will say without a good assessment, any suggestion here including mine is for reference only.\n\nOne thing for sure, it takes 20 years for me to learn and improve what I am doing now in weight training and aerobics.
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Swimming after meals is not dangerous.  However, drinking a large amount of alcohol and swimming afterwards could be hazardous for your health.
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swimming, lifting weights, and tennis.
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Weightlifting can contribute to cardiovascular health if you do high-intensity interval training (HITT). It's all about getting the heart rate up to 70% (or higher) of your maximum heart rate (220 - your age) and _sustaining it_ for an extended period of time. (The key there is sustaining it)\n\nGenerally though, weightlifting does not help your cardiovascular health because of the intervals -- you lift in bursts, then take a quick break etc... You have to maintain a high heart-rate for extended periods of time to be considered cardio.\n\nTo answer your second question, weightlifting doesn't burn as much fat simply because to burn fat, you have to exhaust all the calories in your bloodstream for your body to begin converting fat into energy. Running for about 20 mins will exhaust all the calories and anything after that will start tapping into your fat reserves. With weightlifting, you're just focusing on one muscle group at a time, and again, you're not sustaining the heart rate to exhaust all those calories. If you do exhaust those calories, then your muscles wouldn't be able to lift anything at all.\n\nThat's why it's often good to workout first, and then do cardio after. Working-out exhausts some of your calories, and cardio will start tapping into your fat reserves.\n\nHope this helps.