The best exercise ever!

  • SWIMMING!!!
    It's awesome...for me it's great not having to carry my weight through exercise, lol! Anyone else doing it?
    I did a post with some Q's about swimming on the 300+ board...plz feel free to check it out and reply if you want, thanks!! (Hope it's okay me attaching the url to my post!)

    Melissa


    Link to my swimming post (I think):
    http://www.3fatchicks.com/forum/show...57#post1292357
  • Swimming ROCKS!!! IT's one of my favorite things to do . It's hard with a 2 year old though... we get lazy and end up floating around a lot haha! I wish I had more time to get in the pool ALONE. It burns TONS of calories too, and it doesn't even feel like you're working THAT hard!
  • Swimming is my favorite too! I like to get one of my kids in a floaty thing and swim as fast as I can while pushing them around. They love it and it adds some resistance to the 'work out'.
  • swimming is great.. we have a pool.. all I need now is some nice warm weather, it has been raining in NY for forever!
  • Swimming is my favorite exercise...which is funny, since I don't own a pool and live pretty far from one too

    I loved my aqua-aerobics classes. Some say you can't sweat in water, but I'm living proof that you can. I had to quit do to moving so far from the course (and it being so late in the evening).

    They just built a new pool close to home and I totaly plan on taking the courses in automn, winter and spring.
  • My YMCA has a water aerobics class. I never considered trying it; I guess I'll give it a go.
  • I think swimming is my favorite too. Wish I had access to a pool. Like ValRock said you don't even feel like you are working. I just love it.

    I have seen ads for this thing called Endless pool. I look and dream and drool. Now all I need to do is win a lottery ~ LOL.
  • Endless Pool
    I've seen ads for that pool, too. It looks like it'd be a GREAT product, but yeah...I couldn't afford it unless I won the lottery either! Maybe we'll just cross our fingers and hope one day it'll happen so we can do our own at-home pool training.
  • Oh I can't wait for warm weather so I can go swimming. Here in NH it's been raining forever, bad enough that we got evacuated a few weeks ago. So needless tyo say the lakes are just waitting for someone to swim in them. I wish we had a pool though but the closest one to me is 1/2 hour away and it's ummm (to be nice) not as clean as is could be.
  • See my reply to original post - hopefully there are some tips you can use.
  • I love swimming as well, even if I haven't done any lately.. I grew up swimming, did speed swimming, synchro, diving and eventually started coaching. I need to live closer to a pool! An endless pool, my goodness.. that'd be so nice!!

    -Aimee
  • Love love love to swim.

    It makes me feel sexy. I adore it.
  • Before I had my kids I was swimming 3 miles a day. I absolutley loved it. I would sink into the water and my mind would completely empty. It was the one true time that I did not have to think about anything. I just signed up to start water aerobics at our local pool. The one I live near now is an outdoor pool so we can only swim summer months. Lap swim times do not gel with DH's work schedule, so...but the water aerobics does. I start those on Monday Yeah!!!! I tell you what when I was swimming all the time the weight just came off like crazy.

    Trish