Swimming for an hour consumes about 800 calories. Jogging in water is better for slimming. Because the resistance of water is 12 times that of air, and the density and heat transfer are also greater than that of air, jogging in water consumes more heat than on land. Jogging in water 100 meter can consume 65 kilocalories.

The resistance of people moving in water is 12 times greater than that on land. So people can feel strong resistance when they move in the water. When swimming, the back, chest, abdomen, buttocks and legs can be well exercised in the water. When swimming, the metabolic rate of the human body will also accelerate. It can also be stored for a period of time after leaving water.

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Two misunderstandings of swimming to lose weight

Insufficient exercise.

When people choose to exercise to lose weight, they must do aerobic exercise to burn fat. Short-term exercise can only make people in anaerobic exercise stage. At this stage, people's energy consumption mainly depends on the decomposition of sugar, and they have not burned fat. Only by continuous exercise can the human body begin to enter the stage of aerobic exercise. At this time, you can burn fat, so as to achieve the effect of losing weight.

Therefore, it takes more than 40 minutes to swim before you start to consume fat.

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