According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, drowning is the second leading cause of unintentional injury death for children ages 1 to 14 years, and the fifth leading cause for people of all ages. Swimming is great because if you know how to do it you can it can save someone's or your own life. That is its biggest advantage. It also has other benefits, more physical than life saving, but pretty awesome otherwise. Swimming is a full body workout. When swimming, you are using your arms, legs, and your core. Your arms and legs are used to propel you forward or backward while your engaged core, which includes your abs, back, and booty, keeps you straight which will in turn keep you afloat. Swimming is good for your heart, its and aerobic sport so it gets your heart pumping and gets blood circulating more efficiently.
Swimming is an activity that can be done by all types of people. If you're looking for toning and fainting muscle swimming works because water is about twelve times as resistant as air and you pretty much propelling yourself through it. Resistance is one of the best ways to build muscle and tone. If you're trying to gain flexibility, you can also get that in swimming. With each stroke you're lengthening your body which gives you a really good stretch, along with repetitive scissor kick and arms arcs. That doesn't mean you shouldn't stretch before and after swimming. If you just like being in the water and being cute, swimming is fun and you can show off the different strokes or your diving skills to your friends. It's also relaxing and therapeutic. Water aerobics and swimming are often used for rehabilitation, which is why the girl from the volleyball team that tore her acl in her first game came to our classes for a while. Also swimming is an activity for those of all ages, from young children, even toddlers (my two year niece takes swimming classes) to seniors.
Swimming. ... Benefits. Many benefits can be obtained through swimming. Obviously the biggest benefit is the physical benefits. ... Social benefits to swimming is getting exercise, the opportunity to meet new people, and if need be save some ones life. ...
Physical activity has been shown to have the following health benefits: Reduces the risk of dying prematurely. ... Low Levels of Physical Activity in the United States The benefits of physical activity have been clearly established; however, only a small percentage of individuals are sufficiently active in the United States. ... By examining the benefits of physical activity listed above, you can clearly see that a sedentary lifestyle will not increase your health status. ... These guidelines, the first to be released by a U.S. government agency, provide information on the types and amounts o...
But what they don't realize is that it is great for your body and there are many benefits. Aerobic activity can be anything from walking, biking, jogging, swimming, aerobic classes and cross-country skiing. ... Other benefits include control of body fat. ... To make the results of these benefits on all these forms of exercises more efficient, good nutrition is very important and it also has many benefits. ... The benefits are proof that it is important to exercise because our bodies need it. ...
Running as a regular exercise program improves my over-all fitness and health, allowing me to fully enjoy my other activities, like basketball and swimming. ... As important as physical and social benefits are, the psychological effects are the most important to me. ... Running, while being a simple activity, results in a very complex set of effects with wide-ranging benefits. ...
Sports have many positive benefits for a person's body and mind. ... First of all, sports greatly benefit a person's self-esteem. ... In sports to make a team successful whether it is swimming or basketball, people must strive for one goal to be a cohesive unit. ... If I had not been involved in sports from an early age, I may have never discovered the talent that I have in swimming. I enjoy swimming from the first day I jumped in the pool and still love it. ...
A specific skill that applies to me would be the sport of swimming. ... These three traits apply to swimming because if these traits aren't followed through, the skill of swimming will be hard to achieve. ... Ever since the age of 9, I have been doing swimming, competitively. ... The reason I have been skilled in this sport is because I go to practice everyday, even when I don't want to, because I know it will benefit me in the future. ... Being skilled in the sport of swimming is never an easy thing to do. ...
But the UCLA men's swimming team, one of the most successful college teams ever, no longer exists. ... Sports such as swimming, wrestling and gymnastics have been the main targets for the cuts. ... In the compliance report by school systems, the financial data given is for the purpose of capturing all financial benefits to the male as well as female athletic programs (Block 2). The financial data should include actual expenditures, donations of real and personal property, donations of in-kind services, as well as any other direct or indirect benefit. ... If the school makes expenditur...
The swimming pool located in the back yard is opened yearly, around Memorial Day and is regrettably closed on Labor Day. The swimming pool boasts many advantages to anyone who visits. ... My Mother's House as an Action During the summer, while the heat is smoldering, swimming is a favorite pastime at my Mother's house. From diving for change to relaxing on a float, swimming in the pool will cool anyone down. ... It is only hopeful that these new occupants enjoy and reap the same benefits and memories as my family did while it was My Mother's House. ...
THE REFLECTIVE ESSAY HOBBIES The cultivation of a hobby not allows us to relax properly, but it gives us a true sense of proportion. People in quite minor positions, as well as those who have many responsibilities to bear, often have an exaggerated idea of their own importance and consider th...
