Benefits Of Swimming
Learn why swimming is one of the best activities you can do!
By Sebastiann | January 17th, 2012
Swimming in addition to the benefits typical of all sports activity without impact exercise, great aerobic development and involvement of all major muscle groups. It also provides safety and facilitates easy practice to people who for various reasons can not play other sports.
In the cardiac-vascular system
Swimming is excellent aerobic sport, work and continued moderate aerobic is the most recommended for the most important muscle in our body, the heart.
The heart with aerobic exercise muscle becomes stronger and lose the fat that surrounds it. As each beat is more powerful and can move more blood through the body.
This results in a drop in resting heart rate, improving the economy and the effectiveness of our heart.
For the same reason, increases the caliber of the coronary arteries, causing many of the problems of the cardiovascular system. Helping the heart to be more effective in the transport and return of blood.
Reduces blood pressure, so it is more beneficial throughout the body.
In the respiratory system
With swimming strengthen all muscles, even those who are responsible for filling and emptying of his lungs, making each breath we take in more air with less energy, making breathing more efficient, increasing oxygenation and reducing stress these respiratory muscles, this encourages a low respiratory rate.When we swim the front crawl holding the breath and throws an oxygen debt that encourages the body to increase the density of red blood cells and the ability of these to transport oxygen.
Increasing the area of transmission of oxygen to the blood, this is caused by increased capillarization and increased number of functioning alveoli.
Increases our lung capacity and clean our lungs.
In our muscles.
Well-planned swimming exercises all joints increase the dynamic flexibility of these, so our range of motion increases.
The enlarged muscles stronger and more resistant to injury.
Increase of roughly bones become more resistant to shock and injury.
The increased efficiency of the joints due to muscle tendons and ligaments and improving internal lubrication, coupled with increased muscle mass and strength, makes our quality of life increases exponentially. Could delay aging and increase the potential for expansion as mobile and independent person.
In our psyche
Improving quality of life, independence, our physical capabilities, makes us feel more secure and increase our self-esteem.Swimming is usually done in groups where students are in close contact. Being in a swimsuit reduce socio-economic differences, people are presented as they are and this makes communication easier.
Reduce stress.
We increase our leisure time activities, making us happier.
We increase our topics of conversation, so increased our ability to socialize.
Increase our circle of acquaintances.
Against pain and injuries
Increasing our physical capacity and dramatically reducing our self-esteem affects many widespread pain.
The strengthening of our bodies, makes us more alert, with more balance and we have a complex reaction time more efficiently and quickly, so that falls and bumps are reduced.
The muscle strengthening, thickening of the bones, making them less traumatic falls and recover the normal state rather than a sedentary person.
Anti-Aging
Many authors claim that a person of 65 who exercise regularly have a greater physical capacity and vital to a person of 45 who has not done any physical activity. We are talking about delaying the aging many variables almost 20 years.
Improves sexual life
Exercise, ie sport, improves sexual life from three aspects. Especially the first man to improve cardiovascular fitness improves the ability to maintain blood pressure, which directly affects the maintenance of erection for longer and better quality. The second for both the man and the woman is related to the dopamine circuit that is reactive and increases sexual desire. The third with stress reduction, this being the most common problem in the areas of psychological impotence.
