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Give up alcohol.

Swimming is good excersize if you put in some serious effort, unfortunately most people that go swimming to loose weight or get fitter just end up half-heartedly doing a few lengths of breast stroke then chatting for a bit. As with ANY excersize, its only doing you any serious good if you can hear your heart pounding in your chest and you are red and sweaty... anything else is just moving about a bit. I personally find it hard to achieve any benefits from swimming because when I have got my heartrate up to a decent 'working' bpm I am starting to feel sick from the chlorine smell.
I would go for cycling and jogging and leave the swimming for leisure or injure recovery/physio style gentle excersize myelf.
Take it easy on the bike, use all the gears, and after a few weeks you will notice that you are naturally going up small hills in higher gears than you used to... thats progress, and it feels good!




good points there  JON ,iam already red so thats one tick  :lol  used the bike yesterday,23 mins on the way to work and 20 going home,so a slight hill advantage on the homeward bound journey or am i keener to get home than i am to get to work  .....in the cage today as its pi**ing down out there.......this does mean iam getting to work sweaty/smelly so wont be able to do every day as sometimes have to meet customers,if i can do 2/3 times a week i`ll be happy

used to be a keen swimmer able to do 50 lengths and had the old ticker pounding and felt great afterwards,that was a few years ago so doubt if i could do that now......thanks for all your comments 





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