Swimming is The Best Way to Excersise

Swimming can offer anyone of all ages a massive range of health benefits. You might just feel and come across younger, have stronger muscles, and apparently better hair. Although you might not have awesome, shiny and chlorine enriched hair, you can find at least ten other reasons to swim.

Here are some benefits:

Stress Reduction

No one in the world is immune from stress and everyone needs to build brain power. As you swim laps and do water aerobics you are also gaining the advantage of feel-good chemicals releasing throughout your body. These endorphins are one of swimming’s best side effects. You can exercise and feel good all at the same time. The constant stretching and relaxing of muscles combined with rhythmic deep breaths is the key. Mediate as you swim laps with only the sound of your own breathing circling your brain. The splash of the water acts as a chant and drowns out distractions.

A Healthy Heart

Swimming is an aerobic exercise and provides life-extending exercise to the heart. It gives the ability to pump blood around your body better which in turn leads to improved blood flow. Aerobic exercises have also been proven to combat the body’s inflammatory responses that lead to heart disease. 

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Swimming is one of the most recognized calorie burners around. . A general rule: for every ten minutes of intense swimming you burn up to 150 calories. Swim the freestyle and burn 100 calories and the backstroke will take away 80 calories. To increase calorie burn utilize interval training in your workout. Work hard for short bursts of time and then rest. Swim fifty yards, rest, swim 100 yards rest, and so on. Keep the pattern going until you can swim up to 300 yards. If you think you will never reach this goal; think again. Swimming tends to come easier than you think.