Is SWIMMING better for you then RUNNING?

according to boxingnews a few months ago bike riding is the best in terms of increasing anaerobic capacity.

Well i think a balance of both running and swimming would be much more beneficial than just one. I remember reading somewhere that sugar ray robinson refused to swim because it would confuse his boxing muscles apparently :S

I was told this morning that Swimming is better for a fighter, CONIDITION and STAMINA wise (not better for losing weight and making weight) Is this true? I know Kelly Pavlik swims and he has great stamina and Roberto Duran used to swim and he has great stamina. The reason they say its better is because you must hold your breath for minutes at a time sometimes, WHILE your getting a workout you would get from Running. AND, your working your upperbody as well as your lowerbody. However, its not good for sweating off pounds cause your cooling yourself off with the water Might help as far as overal conditioning and avoiding injuries but I don't think it can give you the kind of explosiveness sprinting gives you. Running also might be more directed to those leg muscles you use boxing.

Good question I'd like to know also! Someone answer him!!!!!!!!!! yes plz, answer me :boxing:

surely to improve your cardiovascular fitnes you want to push your heart further for increasingly prolonged periods of time, rest and then go again. The reason that running is so good is that it easily gets you up to your max heart rate, wheras it is more difficult and time consuming to do the same cycling or swimming. I still think swimming is a very good exercise, and I swim a little myself (I don't box) but I doubt it is as useful for most people as getting on that road and doing 30mins hard interval work.

a question here...does jumping the rope helps on your stamina???.... i mean if instead of running 20 min, you jump the rope for 20 min its like the same??? sry if its a dumb question =P....but i want to know

well, not just running backs. Football players in general. The life expectancy of people who have played in the NFL is 50-something. That is more related to the impacts than to justthe running. A hard tackle is the equivalent of being in a car accident. Sharapova lost, btw Injury rate in the NFL is 100%, that's some serious ish.

I was told this morning that Swimming is better for a fighter, CONIDITION and STAMINA wise (not better for losing weight and making weight) Is this true? I know Kelly Pavlik swims and he has great stamina and Roberto Duran used to swim and he has great stamina. The reason they say its better is because you must hold your breath for minutes at a time sometimes, WHILE your getting a workout you would get from Running. AND, your working your upperbody as well as your lowerbody. However, its not good for sweating off pounds cause your cooling yourself off with the water it's probably the best overall exercise you can do, it's a full body workout that doesn't impact any of your joints so no aches and pains in the ankles or knees. it really helps with your breathing, you don't hold your breath for minutes though, you have to keep your breathing steady, there is a method of training with holding your breath that the navy seals use and it's called hypoxic training which consists or holding your breath for every other four strokes or something to that nature. it keeps your abs tight, your legs tight, actually everything on your body tight, and it works out the back like nothing else other than back bridges. as for losing weight, yes it is a great way to shed pounds, and as for sweating off pounds, heat is the best way to SWEAT off pounds ( sauna, sauna suit, wearing heavy clothing, etc. ) but for burning calories and shedding pounds swimming is great. and i will tell you from experience that you can easily break a SWEAT AND SWEAT while in the pool. i used to be in water polo when i was in jr. high school and our coach had us working out so hard in the pool that we were sweating, literally sweating, after a few laps and a few exercises and having to keep your head above water with your hands out of the water just using your feet for 30 seconds at a time you were busting a sweat for sure. even when i bodyboarded all the paddling and kicking would get you to sweat, you can easily work your body's temp up to sweating while you are in water and no matter what temp the water is unless it's real freaking cold you will sweat but probably not for as long as you would if you were out of the water. i know you were talking about sweating off weight and i might be talking a bit beyond the scope of that but i just wanted to let it be known that you can get excellent workouts from swimming probably the best overall and you can break a sweat but for intents and purposes of just sweating off weight, got to the sauna to sweat off weight.................... swimming should be apart of any boxers training if they want to take their conditioning seriously and if they want to take it more seriously get a partner and have him help with hypoxic training, and make sure you get a partner when doing so, you could drown if you don't have someone to keep and eye on you.

I dont really know, but it makes sense to me that since swimming uses your arms and not just your legs, you build muscular endurance in them, and Im sure that muscular endurance is connected to stamina in some way. The whole breathing thing kind of confuses me though. Like Ive heard of high altitude training...its supposed to make it harder to breath because of the less concentration of oxygen in the air, which is supposed to make your body and heart adapt and helps to condition you cardiovascularly...but does that mean that if you consume less oxygen, like if youre swimming and cant breathe because your mouth is underwater, it helps build stamina because your body adapts itself to a lack of oxygen, which helps condition the heart? hmm yea that sounded very confusing reading it over. but thats how confusing it is in my head....lol.... ________ Volcano digital vaporizer

I have always thought that swimming is the ultimate natural workout. You work on pretty much every muscle, your strength builds up, your stamina, your cardio, everything. If I had to choose, I would choose swimming excercise over running excercise.

A hard tackle is the equivalent of being in a car accident. Really??? I read a stat once that getting sacked knocks like a month off your life or something crazy like that. They musta compared the life expectancy of a quarterback to the average life exectancy and somehow used sacks to figure that out

How do marathon runners cope then....they must be fucked. I'd wager that the specifics of being a running back contribute, rather than just the running - they can't exactly cover many yards in a game, plus it's not on concrete like road runners. yea thats a good point. probably getting tackled and having use momentum to dive over guys and stuff like that contributes a lot to it. Lots of runningbacks end up just fine though, mostly the slick ones like Barry Sanders will never have that problem.

How do marathon runners cope then....they must be fucked. I'd wager that the specifics of being a running back contribute, rather than just the running - they can't exactly cover many yards in a game, plus it's not on concrete like road runners.

I think it is. Better on the joints also. No injuries from swimming. yea its much better on the joints. Runningbacks in football can hardly walk as they get holder, cause of all the wear and tare on their knees

mid to long distance swimmers supposedly have the strongest hearts with heavyweight boxers coming second in the world of pro sports.It also works out every muscle in your body which running does not.

buy some goggles mate and stick your head in, will help you swim better. Turn your head to breath every 3 or 4 strokes, depending on what feels comfortable.

it should be, for front crawl and breastroke you should come up to breath only as far as I was taught. Butterfly you're out a bit more, and backstroke...well its self-explanatory. I always swim above water.I do the regular swimming.For the breaststroke I do hold my breath though.

My heads rarely underwater when swimming. it should be, for front crawl and breastroke you should come up to breath only as far as I was taught. Butterfly you're out a bit more, and backstroke...well its self-explanatory.

My heads rarely underwater when swimming. oh, well i really dont know much about swimming. But i remember a stroke where u swim like a frog and your underwater a lot. I was just reading Roberto Durans Autobiography and it said that Duran would swim and hold his breath for minutes at a time cause his trainer told him to, and it would help his stamina. And then i talked about it with someone this morning, and they said Swiming was better then Running

When did i ever say any of that??? I said that Because your head happens to be underwater when your swimming, you have to hold your breath. And if you know ANYTHING about training, then you know breathing is extremely important to any exersise. Running, Weight Lifting, even swimming im sure (even though ive never done it for exersise) breathing is important. But in swimming, you gotta hold your breath much more then you would for running or jogging My heads rarely underwater when swimming.