Lately I have been doing interval swimming where I swim one lap freestyle as if my life depended on it, and then another lap doing the backstroke as fast as I can. I am going 100% the whole time.
I rest for a few minutes and as soon as I feel I've got my breath slightly back, I do it all over again.
Not sure what it is about getting the hard pumping that hard for short intervals, but I've lost weight in the process.
The thing about it is there is no way to become content. You see a lot of cardio people churning away at the same rate on the treadmill as they were doing last week.
But with my interval swimming, I am going 100%. You are always pushing full throttle; there's no allowance for contentment.
Lately I have been doing interval swimming where I swim one lap freestyle as if my life depended on it, and then another lap doing the backstroke as fast as I can. I am going 100% the whole time.
I rest for a few minutes and as soon as I feel I've got my breath slightly back, I do it all over again.
Not sure what it is about getting the hard pumping that hard for short intervals, but I've lost weight in the process.
The thing about it is there is no way to become content. You see a lot of cardio people churning away at the same rate on the treadmill as they were doing last week.
But with my interval swimming, I am going 100%. You are always pushing full throttle; there's no allowance for contentment.
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