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The benefits of regular swimming training
1. Swimming relieves joint pain
Whether young or old: Anyone affected by joint pain and joint diseases will hardly find any opportunities to do sports without pain. During recreational sports such as jogging or strength training, the joints are sometimes heavily strained. And experience has shown that anyone who is in pain during sport does less sport or no sport at all. It is no secret that joint problems often worsen as a result. Swimming is the perfect sport here to break this vicious circle of pain and avoidance of sport. In the water, there is hardly any stress on irritated joints. Even pain patients can achieve great success when swimming, strengthen joint-supporting muscles and get rid of excess, burdensome pounds. some studies were even able to prove that the symptoms of arthritis patients were alleviated by regular swimming training and their mobility increased.
2. Full body workout helps you lose weight
Swimming is the perfect workout to train all the major muscle groups in the body. When you swim, you activate muscles in your arms, legs, chest, back, and core. Depending on your swimming style and the speed at which you work your way through the water, you will burn a lot of calories . On average, you can burn about 350 calories for every half hour of swimming. By the way, the most effective swimming style for burning fat is the front crawl. The legs kick continuously while the arms are alternately pulled over the head in sweeping movements and pulled through vigorously like paddles. So if you not only want to lose fat, but also want to tone your muscles at the same time, you can’t avoid swimming regularly.
3. The cardiovascular system is strengthened
With the near-constant effort of swimming, the heart works hard, pumping oxygenated blood throughout the body to fuel every muscle. It has been proven that swimming regularly strengthens the heart muscle, artery stiffness and improves blood pressure. A positive side effect: the blood supply to the brain is also boosted. A healthy cardiovascular system and stable blood pressure values reduce the risk of strokes and heart attacks.
4. Swimming corrects posture
Poor posture creeps slowly and unnoticed until the crooked, crooked and painful posture seems completely normal to us. Anyone who sits in the office every day with a rounded back, tense shoulders or crooked hips trains their body into incorrect posture over the years. Even with hard physical work, relieving and incorrect postures grind in very quickly if muscles are wrongly or overstrained. Regular swimming can help to correct such poor posture. Stressed and tense muscles can relax in the weightlessness of the water. Tension in the neck, shoulders and back is relieved during swimming training, side effects such as regular pain, headaches and numbness in the arms and legs can be reduced.
