Benefits of Swimming
Swimming is one type of exercise often included in health tips. There are many benefits that you can get from swimming. If you like to swim without a pause for 10 minutes every day, and you divide the time equally between breaststroke, crawl, and backstroke, you would not need to take no other exercise. Swimming is great for the heart and lungs, for mobility of major joints, and for muscle strength.
Breaststroke
Breaststroke is not as demanding as the crawl or backstroke unless swum very fast. Breaststroke is great for all-round exercise and ideal to be used in public pools because of the good forward visibility.
Backstroke
The powerful circling motion of the arms in the backstroke is especially good for the heart and lungs. People who are swimming in backstroke can get slightly more bite in the water by rolling their body a little with each stroke.
Crawl
The Crawl is the fastest stroke, the most demanding and therefore the best for the heart. A common fault is to kick too hard, diverting blood from the arms to the legs and inducing premature fatigue.
Swimming is one of the few sports in which being overweight is not a disadvantage and may in fact be a practical help for it. People with much body fat float higher in the water and they are better insulated from the cold.
Cardiovascular strength can be improved just as efficiently by swimming as by jogging. However, swimmers can build strength and improve the mobility of their bodies quicker if they combine their swimming with a program of exercise on dry land. The exercises are push-ups, squat push-ups, jumping squats, sit-ups, ankle stretching, and shoulder stretching.