subject: Sun hats Swimming Exercises to Tone Your Entire Body [print this page] Sun hats Swimming Exercises to Tone Your Entire Body
Take a look at the swimmers in any Olympic race and you will see perfect, athletic bodies with almost zero body fat. Hard swimming really is the best type of workout and swimming exercises will give you strength, flexibility, and a great fat burn at the same time. Besides just the standard actual swimming that we do, you can also vary up your routine with structured swimming exercises that you can do inside a pool. Most people just do laps in a freestyle stroke and that is great for certain muscles, but the legs don't always get as strenuous a workout because normally the swimmer will tire or lose their breath long before the legs give out.One way to really isolate the legs and work them out harder is to learn a few swimming exercises where you don't actually swim. Go to the deep end of the pool and, facing up, grip the edge of the pool with your arms extended over your head and behind you. Kick your legs out so that you are parallel to the pool surface. Kick your legs vigorously, really feeling the resistance of the water against your thighs and calves. You need to feel the burn on this so you need to do 50 reps, or 50 kicks. Without stopping to rest, turn over on your right side so that the left side of your head is out of the water while the right side is still in. Continue holding on to the edge of the pool but only with your right arm. Now kick vigorously to another count of 50.Now turn so that your back is facing up or out of the water while holding on to the edge of the pool in front of you. Continue to kick vigorously, feeling the resistance of the water in this, one of the most strenuous of swimming exercises. Again stop at the count of 50 and once again roll to your right so that the right side of your head is up out of the water while the left side remains underwater.Your leg muscles should really be starting to burn right around now so take a break if you feel that you can't continue. Try and not stop for too long. By shortening your recovery time between sets of this fat busting workout you will enhance the effectiveness of the routing. Try and repeat the whole cycle at least three times altogether, or just keep going until your leg muscles get too weak too continue. If you do these swimming exercises right, when you get out of the pool you will feel weak and your legs may wobble a bit. This is good, and the next day you may feel some pain and this is also a positive sign that you are burning fat, breaking down weak muscle, and rebuilding it with lean, strong muscle.There is a good reason those Olympic swimmers look like they do and it is called endurance. Being able to withstand a long, strenuous workout with difficult swimming exercises will give you awesome results in a short period of time so please hang in there.
