Swimming is a fitness activity that can be don for you entire lifetime, the health and fitness benefits of swimming are well worth the effort it takes to get to a pool.
Health Benefits of Swimming
Swimming is an excellent fitness activity. It tones your entire body while providing a great cardio workout, it also strengthens your heart and lungs.
Swimming burns approximately 350 to 420 calories per hour.
There are also mental benefits to swimming, it can give you a feeling of well-being, and make you feel refreshed after a stressful day.
Swimming Basics
Most fitness centers, schools and YMCA or YWCA have pools and swimming classes. Hotels and motels have pools that often offer memberships for the local residents.
Swimming can be used as a workout all by itself or to add to your regular workouts. Before a workout, you can use swimming for a warm-up. Also after a workout, swimming can help you cool-down, relax and move blood through your muscles to help them recover.
If you are just beginning, start out slowly. Try to swim for 10 minutes. Work up to a 30 minutes, three to five times a week.
Try interval training, this involves pushing yourself hard
for short spurts, and then dropping back to a less-intense pace, going back and forth between harder and easier levels of exercise.
Chris
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