I'm a competitive swimmer but recreational swimming can also be a good way to burn calories. Swimming has many benifits like you can do it if your disabled or old. It's a lifetime sport If you do join a good competitive swim team you can really get in shape if you push yourself. Well there might be some people embaressed about wearing speedo's. I was when I first started too. I've always wondered about track. I would like to do it, but if you start getting really old you can't do it. It's can also deterorate your cartalge.
I was a competive swimmer in High School and I now get to swim in our pool out back. It really is a lifetime sport and I just love it! I swam the 500 meter freestyle.
I also swam for my highschool team. I'm more of a sprinter. The longest distance if done in competition is 400 meters and I did it only two times. My glasses fell at the begining both of those times. :roll: You have a pool out back! Is it a standard home pool or 20-25 meters? I practice in a 20meter pool in the Brazil. The team is great though. It's ranked 16th out of 500 or so.
i was never a good sprinter, distance was ny strength because I was able to stay consistent in my speed and save a bit of 'surprise' for the last two laps. The pool in my back yard is 40 feet, just a little over 12 meters.
