Sunday, March 6, 2011

Swimming is Good for the Health

Swimming is a good form of exercise. Aside from the fun and enjoyment it brings, it also has a lot of health benefits. Regular swimming can help improve you physically, mentally and emotionally. Moreover, keeping your body healthy and fit is the most important benefits of swimming. 

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Just like any other form of exercise, swimming requires time, motivation and determination. It has to be performed accurately to gain the benefits you want to get from it. 


Here are the health benefits of swimming:

1. Heart 

Regular swimming helps maintain blood pressure and cholesterol thus keeping your heart strong and healthy. It reduces the risks of stroke, heart attack and other heart diseases.


2. Lungs

Having healthy and strong lungs is necessary. Aside from avoiding smoking and other vices, having regular exercise is advisable. Swimming is one of the exercises that strengthens the lungs as well as maintaining good breathing for healthier body and cardio-vascular endurance.

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3. Joints and Muscles

Swimming enhances joints flexibility and strengthens the muscles for stronger physical health. It helps improve your physical well-being so you can withstand everyday strenuous 
activities.


4. Unwanted body fats

Indulging yourself to regular swimming can also remove all the unwanted fats in your body. Swimming burns fats and calories just as effective as aerobics and other workouts. So if you are having a hard time shaping up your body, why won’t you try swimming?


5. Pregnant Women

Swimming is also a good exercise for pregnant women. Since they are not allowed to do strenuous exercises, spending at least an hour of swimming strengthens the abdominal and shoulder muscles. It also relieves joint pains, back pains and other discomfort that pregnant women experience.


6. Stress

Relaxing in a cool pool water also helps reduce stress brought by mind-draining works. This perfectly works at night before you go to sleep or during weekends. 

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2 comments:

  1. Dear Cassey Vanderson,

    I simply love your blog! As a mom to a little girl named Isabel and a swimming enthusiast, let me just tell you how I can relate to most of your blog posts…especially those ones about swimming pool party accessories. I think your blog that is geared towards children and young adults who love to swim is simply awesome and inspiring.

    My name is Kristen Swope and I live in Fremont with my husband John and 5 year old daughter Isabel. I guess you might say we’re a pool-crazy family that a swimming pool is one of our prerequisites before buying a house. Well, we finally bought one last year and have been swimming whenever we can…and I suppose that is what made me write my own account of the My Funniest Pool Moments With a Toddler.

    In this light, may I ask if you are open to featuring my unpublished article in the capacity of a guest blogger? I am a freelance writer who has done work on pool articles for Balsam.
    Please do let me know if you are amenable to the idea, so I can send over a copy of my article.

    Congratulations again on having such a fun-to-read blog, and more power to you!

    Kristen.

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  2. Hi Kristen!

    Thanks for the compliment! :) I'm glad that you find my blog interesting and informative. Regarding your proposal of publishing your article on my blog, I think it'll be interesting. I wanna see your write ups. Can you please kindly send me your article here at casseyvanderson964@gmail.com? Thanks again! :) More power!

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