Calories Burned Swimming

If you are looking for a exercise program that will tone up your body all over swimming is something that you should seriously consider. It is a low impact form of exercising and is perfect for almost everyone. That is everyone who can swim, if you can’t I highly suggest you get some lessons because the calories burned swimming are fantastic and will quickly help you with your weight loss progress.

Swimming is an exercise that I use quite a bit when I’m on holiday or vacation. Because when it’s hot its a fantastic way to exercise and still feel cool. Plus when your on holiday who wants to be working out in a small and dingy gym. Which is what you will find in a lot of hotels gyms. When I go away I always over indulge in calorie laden beer and delicious tasting junk food. This all takes a toll on my daily calories intake. So I find that by doing a 30 minute to one hour swim is excellent and the calories burned during swimming help to keep my weight down. Plus the swimming will also elevate your metabolism which means you will burn off more calories throughout the day.

I’m the first to admit that I drink too much when I’m on holiday and often wake up with a bad head and hangover. So I find that jumping into an nice cold pool quickly wakes me up and once I get swimming the hangover quickly disappears. I like to rehydrate myself first by drinking a large glass of water before I start swimming because in the morning I’m dehydrated because of the excess alcohol. I find its best to get your swim in before 10 am, because any time after that you can not move in there due to the kids playing and the inflatables toys floating everywhere around the pool.

Going on holiday for me has always been a problem and 9 times out of ten I put on quite a bit of weight why I’m away. But on my last holiday to Spain I did quite a bit of exercise in the hotel gym and also I found that the calories burned by swimming helped to stop me gaining weight. In fact on that holiday to Spain I came back actually having lost weight. Which is fantastic saying that we stayed in an all inclusive hotel were you can eat and drink as much as you want for FREE.