Olympic gold medallist Daniel Wiffen explains why swimming is the best workout
Category
🥇
SportsTranscript
00:00What's up everybody? Welcome back to a new video. I'm going to share where I think swimming is the best workout for anybody in the world.
00:07What's up everybody? Welcome back to the vlog. We've got 4k this morning, nice taper session. It's just aerobic and we're going to get into this and have a great session.
00:17Should take us hopefully under an hour and then we'll see you having some food later on.
00:30Alright everybody, so we're doing some speed efforts right now. We've got like 5 ones where we go like dive 20, goal and then after that we've got some skulls, deep dive.
00:45Alright everybody, so we're just in 10.50s. Speed efforts on me to tell us what we're doing now.
00:49We're doing a swim drill kind of warm up for our session right now. I only have 2 rounds. Tyler has 3 rounds.
01:00Tyler's getting his paddles on.
01:03If you don't, but let's go.
01:13Alright everybody, so we've just finished our session. We finished it off at like 2.50 for 10 with a load of swim around it.
01:20And yeah, and that was it. So now we'll see you in the kitchen.
01:24What's up guys? I'm about to make some tomato mascarpone pasta with beef.
01:30Alright guys, I just made it up.
01:32Alright guys, I just made some mascarpone in
02:01tomato beef with some pasta.
02:04Okay everybody, so I'm going to tell you about why I think swimming is the best workout
02:07for anybody, like for any general public, athletes, I don't know, any sport, I think
02:14they should always swim.
02:15I always see like runners always doing like getting in the water and stuff like that, but
02:19swimming is like a great sport for recovery, like it works every area of your body, it's
02:25great for core stability and also like one of the main reasons I love it so much is just
02:29like it's quiet, you know, like there's no outside noise, it's just you following that
02:33black line and that makes it kind of like a break, gets you a break, like you don't have
02:38any phone nor electronics in you, like I swim for two hours in a session so two hours of
02:43me not being on my phone, not being in technology, not looking at a screen, it's just me swimming
02:49up and down a couple of lengths and it's actually, that's why I actually enjoy it so much is because
02:54it's kind of like a break away from everyday life.
02:57That is like obviously, there's obviously some health benefits, I mean I'm not into big
03:02research around that, I'm just telling you the reasons why I think it's the best workout.
03:07Also like, I mean, it keeps you in really good shape, I mean you burn so many calories swimming,
03:12I think we're burning like over 2 to 3 thousand in a total day of swimming so it keeps you fit.
03:19My parents loved to swim even though they were never competitive swimmers or anything like
03:24that, they just swim for fitness and also it's great for a social life aspect as well,
03:29like when I got into swimming, one of the main reasons I kept on going was because that's
03:34where all my friends were so that's another aspect of why swimming is a great workout just
03:39on the social side, obviously you can't talk to them all the time but when you get that break
03:44on the wall, stuff like that, it's quite good. Also I think it challenges people to like be
03:50technically good because you can swim, you can move your arms faster as you want or as many
03:56strokes as you want but at the end of the day if you're not got the proper technique then
04:00I mean you can watch a video that I've made before if you're not got technique for swimming
04:05but if you don't have the proper technique you're not going to improve and it's going to
04:08basically wasting even more energy but honestly I think it's a great sport and that's the reason
04:14why I choose it. I just showed you some ways of why swimming is the best workout for anybody
04:20in the world. Subscribe for more content like this every Sunday. Please visit our shop, you
04:25can buy some great t-shirts like this one and some sun caps and some autograph cards and the
04:33link will be in the top, that corner.
04:40We don't need no time, baby. We don't need no time, baby. We don't need no time anymore.
04:46We don't need no time anymore. We don't need no time anymore. We don't need no time anymore.
04:59We don't need no time anymore. We don't need no time anymore. We don't need no time anymore.