Is SWIMMING better for you then RUNNING?

[dustybin]

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.

[DIOS DOMINICANO]

But in swimming, you gotta hold your breath much more then you would for running or jogging

You don't "hold" it , per se. You control it.

Whenever you are exercising, breathing is extremely important. You need the oxygen to feed your blood, which carries it to your muscles.

[EMPOROAR]

I think it is. Better on the joints also. No injuries from swimming.

[Kball15]

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

[OptimusWolf]

How do marathon runners cope then....they must be ****ed. 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.

[Kball15]

How do marathon runners cope then....they must be ****ed. 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.

[DIOS DOMINICANO]

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

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

[Kball15]

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

[Ironside]

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.

[Steak]

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....
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