Swimming - Getting FAT!
Discussion
Alright, I've been swimming quite alot recently. I'm a regular runner, and some time cyclist. I've had a good handle on my diet for years now - always been fairly lean.
But now that I'm swimming frequently, well, I'm putting on weight! My shoulders are getting bigger, as is my chest, but there's fat appearing all around me!
I've been running loads too. My diet hasn't changed - in fact I've been really clean most of January. Having a good handle on my weight and diet, I'd really expect to be stick thin by this point. But I'm not - I caught sight if me in a mirror after getting straight out the pool and... Well, I'm looking like a gorilla!
WAT DAFUQ?! Ha.
Any thoughts?
But now that I'm swimming frequently, well, I'm putting on weight! My shoulders are getting bigger, as is my chest, but there's fat appearing all around me!
I've been running loads too. My diet hasn't changed - in fact I've been really clean most of January. Having a good handle on my weight and diet, I'd really expect to be stick thin by this point. But I'm not - I caught sight if me in a mirror after getting straight out the pool and... Well, I'm looking like a gorilla!
WAT DAFUQ?! Ha.
Any thoughts?
325Ti said:
Swimming will use alot of muscles that running doesn't and noticing bigger shoulders and arms would be expected
I have no idea why you would be putting on fat though as swimming would be a better all body workout and should burn more fat than running would
My thoughts too!I have no idea why you would be putting on fat though as swimming would be a better all body workout and should burn more fat than running would
It's really happening though. Bigger shoulders are great (t-shirts are starting to feel tight) but there's gain around the waist too. Very strange.
Not too concerned - once Jack Frost f
ks off ill be out on the bike too. So not expecting to be clinically obese in the near future!Hoofy said:
MocMocaMoc earlier today.
Really bizarre. I hear Michael Phelps eats 14,000 calories a day. Perhaps you need to eat (a lot) more?
What sort of swimming do you do? Leisurely or as if you're racing the guy in the adjacent lane?
Hahaha! ; )Really bizarre. I hear Michael Phelps eats 14,000 calories a day. Perhaps you need to eat (a lot) more?
What sort of swimming do you do? Leisurely or as if you're racing the guy in the adjacent lane?
If they had one of them in the pool, I'd be racing it.
Never one to take it slowly.
TwigtheWonderkid said:
Sounds like that well know swimming pool condition....vending machine amnesia. 
Haha, yeah this was mentioned quite early in the swim training. It's kind if frustrating, seeing loads of 'larger ' people in the local pool cruising up and down not getting their hair wet, knowing they'll suffer the same hunger pangs I will... I often wonder if they'll go home and order a pizza because 'they've earned it'?
Bolebroke said:
I remember being told years ago that your body develops more subcutaneous fat to keep you warm when you start swimming. You need to be racking up many miles to shift it apparently. No idea if true but sounds plausible!
I read this too, but, and I truly believe the body is capable of amazing things, just can't see it.Lots of Internet rumblings about swimmers not losing weight when training, though. Strange!!!
Re: diet - nothing has changed, I'm eating less and cleaner than I was late last year, while my weight / composition was totally stable.
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