For the past few days, I have been getting out in the swimming pool trying to get a little bit extra time in on exercising. I have heard that water exercising is better than regular exercising. Does anyone know if this is true or not? Also, I have hit a platue (how ever you spell it) and have stopped moving on the scales for the past 3 weeks. It is really aggrevating me because I'm not eating more than I should, I actually haven't been eating as much as I should lately, but still, no movement on the scales....at least they are going up...that's good news.

Can anyone help me out with this and if anyone knows of any water exercises and cares to give me a few hints I'd greatly appreciate it.

Actually, there's a lot of theory saying swimming is the least effective fat burner.

Dont let that get you down though. The best exercise is the one that you will do, the one that you enjoy, and the one that you are capable of doing reasonably well. There's also lots of theory that long slow cardio like the running I love so much wastes away your muscle and doesnt burn as much fat - well, my body tells a different story, I love it, I know I will do it, so I dont CARE what the theories say.

The reasons for the downers on swimming and Water exercise is a) you dont get as hot and that decreases fat burn and b)people just cant swim well enough to get a decent workout.

You cant do much about the heat factor and I dont think its probably that significant anyway. But everyone has to start somewhere - when I started running, i could only stagger 3kms, not a great workout in the whole scheme of things - maybe 300 calories! But NOW I can run 10kms in about 55 minutes, THAT's burning quite a lot of calories! You would get there with swimming too.

When I've fancied going for a swim, I do interval style training - I swim maybe 10 laps of the 50 metre pool nice and easy, then i do 20 laps of swiming one way REALLY fast, as if a shark were after me and doing a recovery lap of breaststroke, then a few cool down easy freestyle laps.

You could adapt a routine like that to whatever your abilities and distances that you swim. The important thing is not to cruise, but to work hard, and this will definitely help you to break your pleateau.

The biggest benefit of exercising in a swimming pool is the fact that it takes some of the pressure off the joints while working out. It's not necessarily the "best" option, but it is a very good option if you have issues with your knees or hips.

For the past few days, I have been getting out in the swimming pool trying to get a little bit extra time in on exercising. I have heard that water exercising is better than regular exercising. Does anyone know if this is true or not? Also, I have hit a platue (how ever you spell it) and have stopped moving on the scales for the past 3 weeks. It is really aggrevating me because I'm not eating more than I should, I actually haven't been eating as much as I should lately, but still, no movement on the scales....at least they are going up...that's good news.

Can anyone help me out with this and if anyone knows of any water exercises and cares to give me a few hints I'd greatly appreciate it.

When I was not eating enough and seemed to not be losing, I added some peanut butter at night and like magic dropped 2 pounds in a couple days. I continued the peanut butter a few days a week and still have it now sometimes!