Yes, weight training is an excellent way to lower your body fat percentage. A lower body fat percentage will mean a slimmer, toned and more streamlined body thus improving your swimming speed .
Yes, but it is a secondary benefit of swimming. Swimming leads a favorable height of a swimmer and health too.
Yes, it improves your strength and helps your muscles. By swimming a lot, you can also lose a lot of weight.
From my personal experience with the bowflx machine, it does help you loose weight, but its a slow process, i would include other exercises. Don't just rely on the boflx to loose weight, go jogging or swimming, or you can join a dance class.
Yes if you use it every day but you can gain some to in the way of muscle it will help you lose fat.
Both running and swimming are great ways to lose weight. Running tends to be easier to achieve because you can do it anywhere. Swimming has added benefits of water resistance which can help tone muscles while burning calories.
Somewhat. It is good to have a balance. Running, swimming, good healthy food etc. and then weight-lifting can partially help. But you should stick with normal weight-losing exercises.
Mechanical stress and gravity help to promote skeletal remodeling. Swimming is notconsidered a weight-bearing exercise. The water, not bones, supports the body's weight whileswimming.Swimming is not recommended to prevent osteoporosis, as it is not considered a weight-bearing exercise.
Not really i would go with a resistance machine instead, like bowflex.
Yes there are differences between machine and free weight training . Here are a couple of sites that will help you with this www.nsca-lift.org/HotTopic/.../Machine%20vs%20Free%20Weights...., and www.livestrong.com/.../84894-difference-between-machine-weights-...
Swimming, or any other exercise, builds muscle and burns calories. Whether you lose weight will depend on if you're eating, in total, more calories than you burn each day. See also:Losing weight
an hour of jogging/swimming and going up and down some stairs everyday should help
Since swimming is a form of exercise, it helps, but not all that much by itself. Good nutrition and supplements paired with swimming is a better way of preventing osteoporosis. Any form of weight lifting paired with swimming would also help since lifting puts more stress on your bones, which stimulates bone regrowth.