Swimming is an excellent form of exercise you can do across your lifespan. When you swim, you will use almost all the major muscle groups and places a vigorous demand on your heart and lungs.
Swimming develops muscle strength and endurance while improving posture and flexibility.
Swimming is especially useful for people who are overweight, pregnant, or with leg or lower back problems. Swimming is a great sport for people of all ages and all proficiency levels Swimming provides most of the aerobic benefits that running does, with many of the benefits of resistance training thrown in.
Swimming does not put the strain on connective tissues that running, aerobics and some weight-training regimens do. Swimming helps to control your weight, if you follow a healthy energy restricted diet, by decreasing body fat, increasing muscle mass and increasing metabolic rate without the effects of gravity on your joints Swimming improves your mental health and mood as it relieves stress, tension, anger and depression as a result of ‘feel good’ hormones being released during physical activity.
Swimming helps smokers quit – research indicates that smokers who exercise are twice as successful in their attempts to quit. Swimming increases your quality of life – when you are physically inactive, your body slowly loses strength, stamina and ability to function optimally. Besides of the 10 benefits above, swimming provides human more valuable benefit.
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