Swimming and retardation
A lot of my friends, and people who ask stupid questions or try to explain to me how what their doing is the best thing to lose weight, say that they swim to lose weight... rational is "swimming is the best exercise ever. it moves all the muscles in your body, it tones you body, and it burns a ton of fat!... it's scientific fact... my mother said so." ... i can argue that taking a shower moves every muscle in your body. hence, take 4 showers per day and you'll be "toned" in no time.
anyway, in an olympic sized pool, the distance is 50 meters. so that's 100 meters per lap. 16 laps per mile... I want all the "swimmers" out there to grab a stop watch, do 16 laps, hit the stop button, and divide the time by 16. if you are averaging more than 90 seconds per lap, you aren't swimming. there are some fifth grade swimmers who can average 70 seconds per lap after completing 16 laps. these are children. let's see how the adults who think that swimming will make them look like a fitness model do.
I can tell you, in all certainty, that most people (the fat asses) who say that they swim for exercise burn less than 300 cals per hour. swim some laps for an hour... see how many laps you complete. i would cut my right nipple off if any of the people who think swimming will burn a 45 inch waist in no time average less than 3 minutes per lap. that's 20 laps per hour.
you are better off chugging 240 mg of ephedrine twice a day till you get a heart attack.
and yes, for the person out there who is saying "i'm sure he's talking about me", i am talking about you and you know who you are. you'd be lucky to average 7 minutes per lap, you fucking whale. ;)
posted by Hamad Mohawis @ 1:32 PM
10 Comments:
Why do I get the feeling you work at a gym?
so now i'm a whale!?
lol @ the other two comments.
And yea this is definitely something that you get to hear from a lot of pepole. Problem is they dont realise that to actually lose weight by swimming you need to be quick and do a crazy number of laps. But, Hamad you definitely cant deny it gives your body a pretty good shape. Surfers are a fine example.
P.S. After reading tons and tons of articles on diet I decided to use the BFL diet program after a bit of fine tuning. So much more easier.
manutdfanatic,
i wish i worked at a gym... it would be like heaven... getting to yell at people and shit :)... sadly, i don't. i'm an engineer.
anonymous,
yes, you are :P... if you're who i think you are.
[r],
I don't blame you for thinking that surfers look the way they do because of swimming. Name one person who was fat and out of shape, took up surfing, then looked like brad pitt... just one person, that's all i ask.
look at olympic swimming for example... all the swimmers, even the females, are very tall, have a "slim" physique, and have extremely broad shoulders... calvicle width is insane on those guys. can i say "if you take up olympic swimming, you'd look like them"? you have to be born that way.
Look at those wachamacallthem... the rowers... i don't know what the sport is called, but it's a bunch of guys on a row boat and they row... they all have very long limbs. that's called advantage. genetic advantage.
look at power lifters... they were born looking "stumpy"... short limbs, bulky torso... this gives the advantage in power because they deal with bench press, deadlift, and squats... the shorter the limbs in those exercises, the better you'll perform...
and this is why people say: "i don't want to lift weights, i don't want to look like arnold schwarzenegger"... why do they say that? is it that easy to look like him? if you just lift weights and drink a protein shake every now and then, will you look like him? 5000 people will enter a gym and train... 2 weeks later, 4999 will quit because they are lazy, haven't seen results, or couldn't take the pain of DOMS. that one person who stayed is the genetically gifted for muscle shape, size, and most likely, flexibility. in 2 weeks his muscles popped out, he got bigger, and much stronger. even if he was lazy, he'd love the results and would want to continue.
now, i want you to answer me... i have posted many times that with lighter weights, and higher reps, my body atrophied and got worse. even if i was eating sufficient calories and was on a perfect macronutrient split. if i took up swimming (which is basically even lighter weights, and much higher reps), would i look better or worse?
I can post a picture of an amatuer bodybuilder who has only been training for 4 years... he would make me, or anyone else who has been training his nuts off, look like nothing! Although I train harder, smarter, diet better... etc... i can never acquire half of what achieved in 4 years. why is this? because he was born to be a bodybuilder, and i wasn't.
same thing applies to surfers, swimmers, cyclists, runners, triathaloners... etc. to be good at it, you have to be born for it. and when i say good, i mean competitive on a high level.
I can, and will, deny that swimming gives your body "nice shape". If someone took up swimming, and looked great after a couple of months or a year, he is genetically gifted and the rules don't apply to him.
A personal friend of mine lost a lot of weight... i helped him out with a diet and training routine and i was with him at the gym for a while... he made some really nice gains (in an average way, not genetically gifted)... he quite bodybuilding and started swimming religiously... and he does a lot of laps pretty fast... with all due respect to my friend, he looks like crap. he got much fatter, and has no shape (well... pear shape maybe)... the way i see it... if you are a normal person with average genetics... swimming will not give you a good body, nor will any other real "sport"... you want muscles and you want to get cut? bodybuilding and dieting, only!
go to an MMA class or whatever... any martial arts training... you will find 20-30 people in a class... they all do the same exercises and whatever... identical... and most likely their diets are identical... only 2 or 3 of them look like bruce lee or tito ortiz or whatever... the rest look out of shape and fat. can you explain that to me? why don't they all have the same body shape?
screw genetics, unless you have the good type :D, and screw anything else...Hard freaking work pays off BIG TIME and you Hamad among all people know that for sure.
Looking forward to this Wednesday...or I should say looking forward to feel like crap
My God its gonna be you and Tariq...I'll leave home depressed feeling small and fat :"( WAAAAAAAAAA
Hamad
You are talking about extremes mate. Ofcourse any random guy that starts pushing iron will not pump up into arnold, agreed it requires good genetics(and a little help from the "juice") but just like how you "claim" to have poor genetics aka avg joe, proper weight training and a good diet has got you where you are.
Now apply the same logic to someone that goes swimming as a form of cardio. He will lose fat coz it is cardio end of the day and will probably get a smaller waist. Along with some weight training he could develop a decent upper body.
Genetics will only give you the edge over your average guy. It does not mean having not so great genetics will stop you.
And trust me, i know how much genetics help. Im indian and I think we have the worst body development, maybe after our neighbours in the far east.
Since you mentioned brad pitt, his physique is definitely acheivable by anyone that trains religiously and matches his diet accordingly.
P.S. You should write more often.
Bandar and [r],
you are not getting my point. I had two issues that i wanted to explain but i didn't make it clear.
first issue is competitive sports. if you are going to compete at a school, or a company event or whatever... yes, hard work will pay off even if you don't have the genetics for it. if you are going to compete on a national or international level, you can kiss those medals goodbye if you don't have amazing genetics AND you don't work hard for it. at the local events and whatever, hard work will eventually conquer genetics (unless the genetically gifted decides to work hard, then you're fucked)... but hard work will never conquer genetics when it comes to the professional or national level.
The second issue is having a nice body. if you just want to lose weight and look thinner, exercise isn't your solution... exercise and starving yourself is. but no one ever said "thin" was a nice looking body. thin people want to gain weight, fat people want to lose weight... the problem is, they will never achieve a "nice body" by thinking like this "i wanna lose weight", or "i need to gain fat"... my views are clear on what a "good physique" needs. so i'm not gonna elaborate anymore on muscle mass. BUT!!! if you are genetically average, and you are fat... taking up swimming alone without dieting or anything else won't do shit for your body. that is my point... swimming is just a form of cardio to burn some calories. what do most people tell you when they get out of the pool after a nice 45-60 minute swim??? "I'M HUNGRY!" what do you think a fat person will do the minute he's hungry? he won't take some fiber and a protein shake, i'll tell you that... he'll go get a snickers bar and a big mac meal. so, burn 500 cals on your swimming exercise, and eat 2000 cals after that because it built up an apetite.
now, you're gonna say "no, what i mean was if he took up swimming and went on a diet"... well, the resistance from swimming isn't enough to do shit. you don't get DOMS after swimming for an hour. why? because you didn't break down any muscle tissue. you didn't send the message to your muscle to either stay as big as they are or grow. add to that a caloric deficit from diet, and streneous cardio... and guess what? you will lose mostly muscle... what will that do... it will make you thin! and not have a good physique!
now you're gonna say "no, i meant if you add a good weight training routine, and keep swimming as cardio, and go on a good high protein moderate carb low fat diet with 1.5 grams of protein per lb"... well, isnt' that what i've been saying in the first place?
you cannot use me as an example... true, i have average, or a bit below average genetics, but you do not know what i had, and have to go through to look the way i do. The only person who works as hard as i do, or even harder, is bandar. but i had a 3 year head start on the dude with regards to nutrition and training knowledge. Bandar, when you came back from the states, you were what? 70? 75 kg? this was after 5 years of training, right? after we started talking and you knew what to do, you're now what? 93? 94 kg? this is after what? waking up in the middle of the night thinking about grams of protein, obsessing about how to train the best way and what your 7th meal that you want to add will be at 3 am when you wake up to pee? paying people $100 per hour on the phone just to get some knowledge?
My brother (abdullah) is "slim" by nature. he got really fat when he came back with his MBA from australia. he was eating something stupid like 6000 calories everyday when he was there and he didn't move at all. his cheeks looked like he stuffed walnuts in them. came back here and started eating normaly (meaning junk, but at around 2500-3000 cals per day)... lost a lot of weight... then he started doing cardio and went back to how he looked like before he left to australia (slim... no six pack or anything... but not disgustingly thin)... i convinced him to go workout in the gym... he started lifting weights... our family has the worst genetics when it comes to strength... my brother has been working out for a year and half now, and he can only bench 135 lbs... kinda like me when i started... could barely curl the 30 lb bar for 2 reps... anyway... the only change he made in his diet was "add some protein shakes, and pick healthy food choices for meals", which in my book is still junk... now he looks a bit muscular (more than the average guy) and he's at around 10-12% fat... he's always been at that fat range... 18 months of going to the gym without going on a sensible diet and he got minimal results. i attribute those "minimal" results to his genetics that keep him slim no matter what he eats. for fat people... doing what my brother does will result in NO RESULTS!
do you get my point now?
without a (as one of my old trainees said) "too anal about the numbers" diet, and a well thought of training plan that makes sense (not to your mind, but to your muscles... world of difference) you will not.. AND I REPEAT!!... you will not have a "toned" body. you will not have muscular definition... you will not get attention from people who didn't know how you looked like before (fat people think that when they become thin, everyone they don't know will look at them and say "wow, he looks good". when in reality, no one looks twice... he's just another person walking by)... a muscular person (no need to be big even... just look like you workout) people will look... if you get too big, people will stare and you will hear them laugh when they pass you by :) ... someone who jogs religiously, and diets to fit his sport will not look like an athlete. swimmers only have the muscle mass that they have because of strict dieting and weight training before competitions... do you get what i'm saying??!!!
i repeat, no weight training, no diet, no body! (slaiman ma7ad) LOOOOOOOOOOOOOL
only a few people will understand that :D
easy bro...I did understand what you said but I was just adding to it...
I loved this part :D
"The only person who works as hard as i do, or even harder, is bandar"
That means a lot to me coming from you
oh and when I came back from the states I was something like 75...I jumped to 90kg with few tips from Hamad but trust me I was so damn bulky...I lost them and went back to 76 then I started training with Hamad for few months, 6 I think...and I jumped back to 90 but guess what!!! the 90kg I reached when I was trained by Hamad I was almost bench pressing double what I was during the first 90kg when I was all bulky!!!I'm not shitting you I swear and thats because it was more muscle less fat
Watch out for next year cuz its gonna be crazy...somebody will hit a three digit weight on the scale ;)
woah !!!
Alright buddy i get it. Take it easy now, calm down, put your baseball bat back in your trunk.
Hopefully a couple years down the line and I could be the guy that shed the extra fat and is muscular ;)
1- a long post doesn't mean i'm angry.
2- when someone says statements like these "But, Hamad you definitely cant deny it gives your body a pretty good shape. Surfers are a fine example."
I think i have to go into detail about my answer.
becasue, if i say something like "you can't deny that playing basket ball will give you a couple of inches or feet in height. basket ball players are a fine example of that!"
you would look down on the ground, put your hand on your forehead, exhale and say "god, how can i explain this to you?"
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