What is a good beginner swimming exercise routine?
First of all, swimming is great exercised and a good way to build muscle. As for losing weight, I swim on a seasonal team and find that I lose a lot of weight fast at the beginning of the season (usually like ten pound in three or four weeks) but then level off and don’t lose too much more after that. As for a workout, a standard pool is usually 25 yards or meters, so a fifty is there and back a 100 is four laps and so on. I would start with about a 300 warm up of free style (or front crawl, whatever you call it, just swimming nice and slow and relaxed without stopping) and a 100 of any other stroke (back stroke, breast strokes- the frog stroke- or butterfly if you can do it). Then try doing 200-300 yards of kick using a kick board, alternating fast and slow every fifty (in other words, do one 50 at a normal pace and then sprint one). After that, I would do timed sets. Time yourself doing a fifty at a pretty fast pace (not sprinting, but not slow either- just enought to make you pant a
